[PCW]Aged Windows XP Costs 5x More to Manage Than Windows 7 - Page 2

Originally Posted by Bloitz 

^ this
Frankly I don't understand the hate towards Vista, especially considering a lot of those sheeple actually never tried it. I switched to Vista 64 bit when I got 4GB ram and loved it after I put some work into it. Going to windows 7 felt like a service pack (which it kinda is).
XP is just way too outdated if you know how to work Vista and W7. Searching the start menu, pinning programs and folders, Aero peek, etc. are all things I can't go without anymore without getting severely annoyed.

Originally Posted by Darkpriest667 

XP release was nowhere near as bad as Vista.. I am actually old enough to remember the releases of most of MS operating systems.
I remember how excited I was to be selected as a closed beta tester for windows vista. My friend and I carefully put together a build that not only exceeded the RECOMMENDED requirements but should have blown Vista away. Imagine our disappointment the day our beta copy came in the mail. We experienced numerous crashes. Numerous freezes that required a cold reboot. When we posted to microsoft all of the errors that we had encountered they emailed us back saying that these were being worked on and should be resolved by release. My friend and I looked at each other with disbelief as release was less than a month away and we knew there was no way all of these problems could be addressed. My friend had enough faith to buy a full version copy of Vista but I was intent on sticking with XP pro. When my friend bought me out of my half of our test system and installed Vista on it the day it was released. We saw that it was literally an identical build to the beta we had tested.
No Sir, some of us DO remember the Vista release and it was tragic and horrid. The only Windows release worse than Vista was ME.. Which to this day I am still convinced caused numerous hardware failures on a brand new pc. The PC ran fine for 30 days on Windows 98. when we formatted and installed Windows ME it started hard crashing all the time even opening the web browser could cause a hard crash. Then one day it just never booted up. I believe that ME had mismanaged the scheduler and power options and caused the CPU to overheat and frag itself.
EFF VISTA, and EFF Windows ME... I believe Windows 8 may be the first OS in the tick tock cycle MS has had that might actually not be a cluster EFF.
ON TOPIC.... I think its time for the business community to upgrade their OS to Windows 8 (or windows 9 if they can wait) While XP is a solid stable system its very outdated. I believe Windows 7 could have been the upgrade path but now with Windows 8 on the horizon I think 8 would be the way to go.

Originally Posted by Darkpriest667 

XP release was nowhere near as bad as Vista.. I am actually old enough to remember the releases of most of MS operating systems.
I remember how excited I was to be selected as a closed beta tester for windows vista. My friend and I carefully put together a build that not only exceeded the RECOMMENDED requirements but should have blown Vista away. Imagine our disappointment the day our beta copy came in the mail. We experienced numerous crashes. Numerous freezes that required a cold reboot. When we posted to microsoft all of the errors that we had encountered they emailed us back saying that these were being worked on and should be resolved by release. My friend and I looked at each other with disbelief as release was less than a month away and we knew there was no way all of these problems could be addressed. My friend had enough faith to buy a full version copy of Vista but I was intent on sticking with XP pro. When my friend bought me out of my half of our test system and installed Vista on it the day it was released. We saw that it was literally an identical build to the beta we had tested.
No Sir, some of us DO remember the Vista release and it was tragic and horrid. The only Windows release worse than Vista was ME.. Which to this day I am still convinced caused numerous hardware failures on a brand new pc. The PC ran fine for 30 days on Windows 98. when we formatted and installed Windows ME it started hard crashing all the time even opening the web browser could cause a hard crash. Then one day it just never booted up. I believe that ME had mismanaged the scheduler and power options and caused the CPU to overheat and frag itself.
EFF VISTA, and EFF Windows ME... I believe Windows 8 may be the first OS in the tick tock cycle MS has had that might actually not be a cluster EFF.
ON TOPIC.... I think its time for the business community to upgrade their OS to Windows 8 (or windows 9 if they can wait) While XP is a solid stable system its very outdated. I believe Windows 7 could have been the upgrade path but now with Windows 8 on the horizon I think 8 would be the way to go.

Originally Posted by paulerxx 

I clearly remember XP being trash before SP1...And I'm only 21. Vista was far better at launch vs XP, in my opinion. I clearly remember what kind of computer I had for both too.

Originally Posted by Liranan 

The only tragic thing about Vista is the delusion that it was bad. XP pre-SP1 was terrible and you want bad? Try Me but I assume you're too young to remember them.
I also don't know why MS are dropping support for XP and leaving all companies who refuse to upgrade in the dark. It could have something to do with its archaic and outdated architecture but that's just a guess, right?

Originally Posted by Blaze0303 

I'm sorry but Vista was bad, it was almost as if it was a beta released as a finished product. And why would you try to turn this into a age battle? To the person who mentioned Windows ME, you made me shiver, I thought I forgot about that tragedy!

Originally Posted by Blaze0303 

I'm sorry but Vista was bad, it was almost as if it was a beta released as a finished product. And why would you try to turn this into a age battle? To the person who mentioned Windows ME, you made me shiver, I thought I forgot about that tragedy!