I have laptops with both XP Pro and Vista. I found Vista so annoying I installed opensuse 11 Linux on it, making it dual-boot. I found Linux to be intuitive, am already faster on most tasks, and can run most of the Windows apps under wine faster than they run on Vista. If some apps didn't need Windows, I wouldn't run it at all.

L. Jonathaan1/9/2009 11:39:45 AM

I don't agree with Richard_d, Windows 7 is now running faster than XP and Vista, tests show that it outpaced both previous OS's on slower machines.
Microsoft did refine/trim the new OS to boot faster and run more effeciently.

Elie1/9/2009 9:59:59 AM

All the fancy rubbish serves little useful purpose for SMB who are already suffering from the downturn. I advise "If it ain't broke, don't fix it".
The substantial cost of further training for my staff (the support team) and the clients' staff is harder to justify.
Vista is, in my opinion, another ME. Dump it, and wait for the next version. Oh! By the way, the upgrade had better be FREE......

gary@informatics.co.nz1/8/2009 9:49:39 PM

"Vista installs the patch, reboots, runs another process to complete the patch installation, then reboots again before you can use your computer."

The only time I've seen this is with SP1; all other patches install with only one reboot.


"Windows XP works well"
So does Windows 3.1 / 95 / 2000. For that matter, none of them boot as quickly as MS DOS 6 - maybe we should all have stuck with that?


"Windows 7 isn’t far away"
Windows 7 is essentially Windows Vista R2. If your hardware or software doesn't work with Vista, it won't work with Windows 7.

Richard11/6/2008 6:43:08 AM