| canch said: I don't understand all this trouble people are having with Vista... I got Vista 32-bit with my new PC last year and I never have any problems, its much better than XP was plus its got Dx10 and games run much better. I think people's problems are due to using pirate copies of Vista. I read most posts on these forums and others and most of the time people are saying 'I have tried it'. How can you try it without buying it ? unless its a pirate copy. I used to use a pirate copy of XP at first but I had many problems with crashing and things going wrong. One day I bought a new hard drive and the shop was selling a OEM version of windows XP for £40. I bought it and never had the same problems again. |
Every version of Vista gives you a 30 day trial period with no strings attached so people can actually try it if they wish then buy if they want to. Not saying nobody has pirated Vista but there will be many people who did take advanatge of this feature too.
slowmo said:
Every version of Vista gives you a 30 day trial period with no strings attached so people can actually try it if they wish then buy if they want to. Not saying nobody has pirated Vista but there will be many people who did take advanatge of this feature too. |
I tested vista when I was visiting my parents. Every graphical program I have made lately didn't work on it(BSOD). I have done research and looks like its totally random when those doesn't work and when they do. Software isn't the problem because it does work on any other windows(except maybe anything under 98, I guess. Haven't tried tho.). Exactly the same code does even work on linux or mac. Windows 7 can also BSOD, if my programs are ran on it. Only way to make them work is to compile them on windows 7 or windows vista. That way however those programs might not work even on XP. They aren't that different right now in this case at least.
if microsoft really wanted to kill xp they would have already
| canch said: I don't understand all this trouble people are having with Vista... I got Vista 32-bit with my new PC last year and I never have any problems, its much better than XP was plus its got Dx10 and games run much better. I think people's problems are due to using pirate copies of Vista. I read most posts on these forums and others and most of the time people are saying 'I have tried it'. How can you try it without buying it ? unless its a pirate copy. I used to use a pirate copy of XP at first but I had many problems with crashing and things going wrong. One day I bought a new hard drive and the shop was selling a OEM version of windows XP for £40. I bought it and never had the same problems again. |
Way to go accussing users with problems for piracy.
I'll maybe upgrade to Vista when they have fixed all the buggs(if there are any left 
)
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well i am very versed in computers and i can say that at least for me and my (2 gigs processor dual, 2 gigs ram, ) vista run very good, the only problme i got is that i am unable to play starcraft (well i can play it in my ubuntu partition with a xp in a virtualbox) , but aside that everthing works quite good, and its as usable and xp, but i have to say that i really dont see a great useful change when compared to xp
so i dont see a reason to downgrade to xp when buying a new computer (maybe performance, but i use in my work Firefox with a lot of tabs, skype, msn , pidgin , Fireworks, Photoshop, Notepad++, Openoffice writer, winamp and Thunderbird at the same time and it never slowdown. so....)
Windows 7 maybe it can replace windows xp, there a lot of positive reviews and it have a good chance that people arent intereste in downgrade to xp when buying a new computer.
| Bitmap Frogs said: They just renewed the downgrade to xp program for another year. Vista has been a massive clusterfuck for microsoft. I hear they've learned tho, as it appears win7 is rather nice. If they were smart they'd market it as XP 2.0 |
You are a Genius! :D
I'll still be using Windows XP for two reasons
I am kinda poor, and paying the price for Windows 7 Home premium (the cheapest one I would consider buying) is not worth it
I don't know that my budget lappy would run it very quickly
| thetonestarr said: Just because Win7 doesn't look that much different than Vista doesn't mean it doesn't work differently. Windows '98 looked almost exactly like Win '95 but it worked incredibly differently. And Win2k was the same way. WinXP was the first version since '95 to change the appearance drastically. Win7 looks a lot like Vista, but it works VERY differently. It addresses all the problems that Vista had, and it does it rather well. It has a plethora of performance improvements over even XP, and it offers a variety of advantages too, like better security, more options, greater compatibility with more powerful systems, etc. It won't stop everybody from using XP, but then, XP and Vista haven't stopped people from using Win2k (yes, many still use 2k, particularly since it's even faster than XP). It will, however, overtake XP as the "dominant 'new system' OS". |
who the hell uses 2k over 98second edition ? windows 2k is pretty bad.
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