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[Biggun]

Vista bag of pooh, at least XP works ok now after all these years.

[TheBoy]

Vista bag of pooh, at least XP works ok now after all these years.

Thats a rather sweeping statement  :-/

[platty]

I still know many people who cannot handle change and modify their XP to look exactly like W2K...

Mine is still in "W2K style" - and I like it  


My bro got a lappy with Vista last year, unfortunately Vista really struggled on 1gb RAM and an average processor.

Just had a new PC at work, on Vista but with dual core processors and 4gb of ram - it is brilliant, completely understand it now!

It has been mentioned already, but it needs new hardware to flourish - upgrading not as simple.

[TheBoy]

I still know many people who cannot handle change and modify their XP to look exactly like W2K...

Mine is still in "W2K style" - and I like it  


My bro got a lappy with Vista last year, unfortunately Vista really struggled on 1gb RAM and an average processor.

Just had a new PC at work, on Vista but with dual core processors and 4gb of ram - it is brilliant, completely understand it now!

It has been mentioned already, but it needs new hardware to flourish - upgrading not as simple.

Yup Core2 series processor, 2+Gb RAM, and a nodern vga card are what makes Vista sing.

For a laugh, I installed it on the OOF server (before Windows server went on) - Core2 Quad core 2.4Ghz, 4G RAM, fairly fast disk array, ATI 1000 series video.  It flew. From switch on to ready desktop, under 10s  8-)

[tomoco]

Did i open a hornets nest TB? i do like a lively debate.

I think we can all agree to disagree about which versions of windows we prefere. Suppose its what we get used to. Us older pc users out there tend to stick to what we know (or think we know) about. Was on xp for years myself and (Eventually) went onto vista, although i had to build a new more powerful pc to really enjoy its advantages (more ram, better graphics card and a much faster cpu.
I wonder if  another rebuild will be needed for windows 7 (maybe quad core with a minimum of 2 gig of ram)And of course another licence to buy.

We love you Bill Gates

Tomoco

[TheBoy]

Did i open a hornets nest TB? i do like a lively debate.

I think we can all agree to disagree about which versions of windows we prefere. Suppose its what we get used to. Us older pc users out there tend to stick to what we know (or think we know) about. Was on xp for years myself and (Eventually) went onto vista, although i had to build a new more powerful pc to really enjoy its advantages (more ram, better graphics card and a much faster cpu.
I wonder if  another rebuild will be needed for windows 7 (maybe quad core with a minimum of 2 gig of ram)And of course another licence to buy.

We love you Bill Gates

Tomoco

Yup, some people like to stick to old stuff - looking through OOF's logs, 0.5% still using Me, 0.3% using pre 2000 NT variants, 0.5% on 98, and 1 person still using 95 (and a few connections from a Windows 3 machine!).

Some of the browsers in use is even more worrying - remember unsupported stuff is not patched

[Martin_1962]

Last month I came on via the PS3 - what was listed for that?

[TheBoy]

Last month I came on via the PS3 - what was listed for that?

Listed as 'ah, thats the mug who bought one of them'

[Leomas]

Biggest problem with not running Xp in Admin mode is that so many games seem to require it. Rebuilt my boy's PC recently and knowing just enough to be dangerous I only gave him Power User access. None of the games he has would run and these are not 'bleeding edge' games but fairly normal stuff including World of Warcraft and Neverwinter Nights (OK, so I have a lot of RolePlaying games....yes I'm a Nerd/Geek/Whatever). The only way to get the games to run was to give him Admin rights which meant no network for him. He went right off on one but when he had to make the choice he went for the games.

[master-sambo]

You know what?  As an MCSE, I still do not like using Vista.  It is bloated beyond necessity.  Granted it looks relatively pretty, but that is not a deciding factor when most people purchase an operating system.  XP is, and is most likely to be, Microsoft's best offering in terms of an OS (except for DOS 6.22!!).

I have to say though, that even given my career leanings, I am an OS X convert.  Apple have got THE BEST operating system out there bar none.  Slick and efficient.  More stable than XP sp2 as well.  And that takes a bit of beating.

P.S. - Did I show up as an OS X user on the logs??

[Martin_1962]

Last month I came on via the PS3 - what was listed for that?

Listed as 'ah, thats the mug who bought one of them'

 

[TheBoy]

Biggest problem with not running Xp in Admin mode is that so many games seem to require it. Rebuilt my boy's PC recently and knowing just enough to be dangerous I only gave him Power User access. None of the games he has would run and these are not 'bleeding edge' games but fairly normal stuff including World of Warcraft and Neverwinter Nights (OK, so I have a lot of RolePlaying games....yes I'm a Nerd/Geek/Whatever). The only way to get the games to run was to give him Admin rights which meant no network for him. He went right off on one but when he had to make the choice he went for the games.

And the lazy programming of some software houses is what has caused a lot of the pain in upgrading to Vista kernel.

[TheBoy]

You know what?  As an MCSE, I still do not like using Vista.  It is bloated beyond necessity.  Granted it looks relatively pretty, but that is not a deciding factor when most people purchase an operating system.  XP is, and is most likely to be, Microsoft's best offering in terms of an OS (except for DOS 6.22!!).

I have to say though, that even given my career leanings, I am an OS X convert.  Apple have got THE BEST operating system out there bar none.  Slick and efficient.  More stable than XP sp2 as well.  And that takes a bit of beating.

P.S. - Did I show up as an OS X user on the logs??

Everyone has there own preference. OS X isn't bad at all, but I still reckon Windows is the better desktop.  Which is odd, as the previews of Windows 7 look a bit OS X like

As to stability, the NT kernel, and Vista kernel, do tend to be very very stable.  Last kernel crash (BSOD) I had that wan't hardware related? Can't remember.  Don't use Macs enough to comment on later OS X versions stability.  Both OSes likely suffer instability due to 3rd party drivers rather than anything else, hardly Apple/MS fault.

If the OS + software does what you need it to do, thats all that matters


We have a few Mac users, using OS X and, believe it or not, classic OS

[cem_devecioglu]

as a programmer I need a stable and widely used environment

so still xp pro..

[TheBoy]

as a programmer I need a stable and widely used environment

so still xp pro..

I use a mix of XP Pro and Vista for actual programming.  Tending to use more Vista now, catches my bad programming habits earlier