apcmag.com — Computer makers have been told they'll no longer be able to get Windows XP OEM by the end of this year, despite strong ongoing demand for the OS. Analysts and computer makers are wondering if the move is premature given Vista's ongoing issues -- Dell has even reintroduced XP on a range of machines due to customer resistance to Vista.
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nayrApr 12, 2007
bobcrotch: WHY would people use 16 bit code in 32-bit protected mode?
amoebaApr 13, 2007
I just bought a new desktop PC. The vendor offered to install Vista, I asked for XP Professional.
venom8599Apr 13, 2007
"It's a RAM hog, the interface has been unnecessarily rearranged, and drivers for practically new devices (like my Netgear 240 wifi adapter) suddenly don't work."It actually uses your RAM for something, unlike previous versions of Windows which wasted RAM by leaving it doing nothing instead of trying to cache things. The interface was rearranged, but that's nothing different than every new version of any piece of software. If you care to spend about 10-15 minutes, you can quickly customize the UI to be more to your liking, which is something I had to do with XP as well. As for the device drivers, are you trying to use the ones that came on your driver disk? If so, you can probably check around online and find Vista drivers, or you'll probably be able to sometime soon.Of course business users should stay away for now. They should stay away until all their mission-critical apps are supported, which would probably be some time after SP1.This thread is just filled with mounds of anti-Vista FUD though. Sure, there are issues to be ironed out, but some people seem to have taken too much of the FSF's badvista.org FUD campaign to heart. (It's also sad that the FSF has sunk low enough to embrace tactics that the F/OSS community has been the target of for so long.)
mrkiteApr 13, 2007
I'm totally convinced that 99% of the people who bash Vista never ever tried it.
smillsApr 14, 2007
Who needs to try it? That has got to be the most ignorant comment i have ever heard. Try before you comment people. I was a bit reserved about using vista as i am an avid gamer, but now that i have it i am finding it great. It manages my dual core way better than XP and all my games that i have installed so-far work on it. (farcry, quake III, quake IV, warcraft III, Call of duty 2, black and white 2, prey, counter-strike source, company of heroes, supreme commander, unreal tournament 2004... etc) the list goes on, all work perfectly. All my hardware works great too. Sure, some programs didn't work straight after install, but all they needed was run as system admin and no problems. That is hardly a hassle. I bet that half the people complaining about Vista don't know how to do this...
Closed AccountApr 14, 2007
mac user: noun; Single male who likes to pay more for a computer that can do -less-. Often found on boards yelling about how great linux is or how compatible apple is with all sorts of software 0,5% of all computer users use.Mac is slower, it's more expensive, it can't 99% of all games, it's incompatible with so much software. WHY would ANYONE with a SANE MIND buy a MAC? (just like people buying citroen I guess)Mac: pay more, get less
onetrackApr 15, 2007
Who says linux is your only option, if you selected decent hardware to begin with, you don't have to ' throw out your pc ' if you choose to run osx.. just go to www.insanelymac.com and read some of the installation tutorials.. its cake easy these days, and you get to run osx (albeit in a grey area) on your common pc hardware.
heiligeApr 22, 2007
It's too late, the days of the proprietary, restrictive, costly, rented, monopolizing computer OS like Microsoft Windows is at last coming to an end!People are moving to Linux in droves as I write this, many of my friends are switching over to Ubuntu 7.04!
grumpygreggMay 7, 2007
Windows XP is ok and because most people may work with XP they know what works and what does not. Vista is new and first gen. Drivers and hardware just are not there yet. By mid 2008 Vista will be the norm, as business takes it on and third parties has hardware and drivers come online. Linux will continue to grow, slowly, but Windows Vista is here for the next 5 years. Personally I have a Apple Mac so OSX is cool enough for me. I have XP & Ubuntu running in VMWare. Basically XP is now Legacy!So if you jump from XP you have three choices, Choose a Mac and get a great OS. Choose Linux and learn computing. Or go with Microsoft!!