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shady911

XP SP3 is obviously the best choice as its stable of the two Xp-SP2 and Vista

Vista is eye candy and comes with directX 10.

Let me tell you directx10 has been found to run on XP Sp3 google it to know more ms is not offering dx10 for xp but u can always use it. Plus VISTA is a resource hog
as for ur config XP SP3 is the one for u.

hexwiz

Vista is like an extra thick condom - safer but slightly less fun...aha!

And even viruses have compatibility issues with Vista

Punch Farce

good analogy

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Mr.Tooth Fairy

here i am.. buddies... who is telling vista is sad??? lolz....


well let me tell you ppl one thing.. i am a vista fan.. really its nice.. damm decent os.. just the thing .. i will not recomend it for pcs who have less than 1g ram.. or for 1gb or highter...it works pretty good...


the main problem y ppl fine annoying is ... blinking security and administration windows.. because of UAC turned on as default.. its of no use practiaclly.. u can switch it off... and done.. than its not quiet annoying...


more i would like to say.. i have been using vista since almost 1.5 years.. the day i had got my pc .. i installed vista.. and till now.. many times i changed all os.. like xp, black xp. xp sp2 , sp3 and ice xp and lastly even vista gamers edition (ati).. i know among all above official is only xp sp2 n 3.. others are modifications.. but still its like i formatted n now again happily running vista..

another thing.. y ppl always tell it gets slow.. but just a few utilities can make vista work fine. i never faced problem regarding slow speed or hang ups or something..

newprouser

I'm with you bro ! Vista is awsome but for its system requirements, but thats hardly a issue nowadays.

The real problem is that people infact like it, but they are jealous that their 4 yr old compie does play nicely wid vista, so they cry foul, sayin vista is bad......

ShAdOwCoN

garbage man .... i still use XPsp3 .... and as u know i have a gaming desktop , no issues with sys requirement ....

newprouser

what are trying to say ?

ShAdOwCoN

xp is better than vista

newprouser

well for me the new search system, the dreamscene fuction and video/pict ure preview and sidebar are almost indespensable.

agreed, they can be brought about by 3rd party software in xp , the integrated functions work the best.

Another thing which i loved with vista was that the setup DVD can be used to diagonise and solve the problems automatically, rather than using XP's rescue tools.

although i've never used it, another feature which's pretty good is the shrink volume feature. i feel its very usefull for laptops.

Vista's way better than XP, its sad that many people don't accept that fact. Although its downright funny they people hail 7 , noting that its nothing more than a tweaked up vista. but credits to M$ for making it run fast.

ShAdOwCoN

even MS accepted the fact that vista was crap ...... during the 7 release

Hail ????

people only said it was better than vista .... which is a fact ..... it does have a better performance with many annoying issues (of vista) removed

newprouser

obviously due to pressure from public, they speak what people want to hear and nothing else...

ShAdOwCoN

yeah customers say its crap .... the developer says its crap

so it must be crap right ?

Mr.Tooth Fairy

well.. inventions are made.. and later the modifications are done to meet the requirements.. but u cant think the original one to be useless... ultimately.. its the original's modification....

same ere.. i mean.. 7 is just light n modified vista..

newprouser

problem is most of the customers are noobs... they simply chant wat other say.

and the biggest problem with vista ,was that M$ didn't handle their release properly, it was delayed so long that people/press got bored of it. And by this time, many of its features were available in 3rd party s/w.

This caused a bad publicity image and as we know, once something is spoken loudly, everybody speaks the same , wheather its right or wrong.

As for 7, it scores purely due to its speed. Once a person starts hailing everybody else simply follows it. And this time, M$ had announced the release date to be in 2010, while in fact it could be much earlier, to avoid the previous goof up.

Recently a method for hacking 7 was posted by certain indians along with source code, do you hear anybody complaining about it ?

At the end of the day its all about publicity, that matters....

Mr.Tooth Fairy

i conpletely agree with np.. well said buddy..

ShAdOwCoN

that was not the problem with vista .... both n00bs and techies had different reasons to complain

For n00bs they had many compatibility issues ..... they did not have the heavy hardware resource it required ..... and the resulting slow performance was pissing them off

For techies it was digital rights management , User account control , more restricitve licensing terms and lots of software compatibility problems ..... For example Visual Studios 2005 was not compatible with vista ... even though both were released at about the same year ....
drm even goes as far as restricting u from watching live streaming premium content even after u paid it

none of which u seem to be aware off (so most probably never used)

if you use ur windows only for playing games , watching movies , Internet and some simple softwares vista is fine for you .... as long as u know what u are doing .... for the rest it is crap .....

you seem to assume that ppl love windows 7 and hail it as the next best OS??

they only said it was better than vista .... not the best OS ......

there have been some initial positive comments , only after they release the RC will we know the true public reaction ......

and

Theres a good reason they have XP virtualisation feature in windows 7

every vista-ish feature was removed ......

windows ME and xp are similar .... does nt make them the same does it ?

Mr.Tooth Fairy

lagta hai... khun ki nadiya beh jayegi.. agar more discussion to be continued..

no i dont think so vista all features were removed.. basically they removed all unnecessary things which slopwed down vista.. made its visual things more neat.. (vista was anyways visually good ) made it so tht it in such a way tht uses less resources..

windows 7 is not completely new invention or something.. i feel it emerged from vista..

ShAdOwCoN

correct
and windows xp emerged from windows ME .... still XP is better than ME

newprouser

You do know the very same thing happened when XP was released. Many of my friends used to claim that win 98 was the best, and nothing could ever replace it.

Right i never knew abt the DRM n VS 05 stuff but any techie would have the common sense to turn off UAC. If there was any major prob wid vista it was driver issues.that was one thing that M$ botched up until Sp1.

Oh yes i do, many people (on blog comments) have claimed that 7 works better if not equal to Win Xp even on P4 processors. So i would take it as an indication that they claim it as best windows OS.

RC has been released already...


As far Xp and ME comparison that was a totally different case...

*ME - fast damn fast but very prone to crashes,

* 98 -was less prone to crash but little slower too and not to mention it looked so ugly.

*Xp - major advantage at that time was that it reduced the BSOD,crashed by 90%, so that was an apt reason for its popularity at that time. '
And Xp was a combination of ME and 2K which esssentially combined desktop and networking features for the first time in history of M$ windows. So that was that.

These are the reasons y Xp is/was/will be better than ME.

subir12

i Am Using Vista On My Dell Laptop.