Ten Reasons Not to buy Microsoft Vista at this time

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In the spirit of good conversation I submit:

I have Vista on a Sony machine that was designed for Vista.

In the beginning, I didn't have time to learn Vista so I stumbled around
with it and had some frustrating experiences. But now that I've had time to
learn more and more about Vista's features, I question the test results that
shows XP to be 40% faster than Vista. I have 3 XP machines that are running
to the max speed (lots of memory, clean OS and no bloatware.) In contrast to
XP, my Vista machine which is running full speed with all the eye-candy,
including slide show gadgets, is faster than my XP's in most apllications.
For example, when I turn on my wireless adapter switch on Vista, my Vista
connects to the internet in 5 seconds or less. That's right. 5 seconds or
less. In contrast to my very fast, clean XP's that take much longer (30-60
seconds) and in many cases, I have to help XP connect by using XP Network
connect menus. The only problem I have with Vista is that the media player 11
can not handle some of my old video clips but the MP on XP can. I remedy that
with GOM.

In conclusion, I'm having good experiences with Vista since SP1 download and
with a few driver updates from my computer manufacturer.

I haven't even mentioned how Live Mail is performing incredibly well... and
fast. Or how the search functions of Vista make XP seem like a DOS based
system. Vista is more complicated and is asked to do more work that XP and in
most cases it does it faster.

So, as normal user/consumer, I say Vista is getting better.

One last thing- I've worked with a few Macs. They have their problems, too.

MS is going into the right direction with Vista.

cheers,

oscar
 
XP isn't "going away", get a grip!
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- Says here it is !!

http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/winxp_inspndt?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs

Per the Microsoft® Windows Life-Cycle policy, Direct OEM and Retail
License Availability for Windows XP will End-Of-Life (EOL) on June 30,
2008. To meet Microsoft’s June 30 last-day-to-ship OEM Windows XP
deadline, June 18 is the last time to purchase a Dell laptop, desktop,
or workstation with an OEM Windows XP license.

- After That 'It's Vista, which is unacceptable, MAC, Linux or keep
feeding your current XP new parts.

- So, after June 30'th if you want a PC with a Decent Microsoft
Operating system
- You're totally hosed

http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/
 
I could see them making a 3-day demo CD. The technology is
already available for songs; after 3 days the CD oxidizes
to the point of unreadability. A time bomb could also be
put in the OS itself; this time bomb would render an ISO
image useless after 3-4 days unless a user resets the clock.
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After a little more digging, I see that the Vista LiveCD is fake !!!

I should have known by the size, as you pointed out, and done the digging
before I mentioned it.
 
* The Ghost In The Machine peremptorily fired off this memo:
I dunno....I get the feeling "stealth upgrades" will
eventually transform XP into a crippled version of Vista
Home Basic. Of course one can forestall that by shutting
off access to update.microsoft.com or some such -- but
there's a few issues if one does so, mostly having to do
with security patches.
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And driver updates, application updates, library updates.

(Was just listening to guy at work telling me about a couple of friends'
machines losing some functionality due to up-yours^Wdates. Been there,
done that.)

But it can happen even in Debian (though it hasn't happened to my
boxes).
 
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