Adios Vista! Windows 7 On The Horizon

[Alex]

I wouldn't have paid to upgrade to Vista since XP is perfectly fine. But it came with a new computer and I've had no issues with it.

As for things I like in Vista, the preview pop up when you hover over an item in the taskbar is great. I use it all of the time to track progress of things in other collapsed windows. I'm sure you'll point out a dozen alternatives with XP and I wouldn't argue, but I hadn't experienced it before, it is there, and I like it.

The built in photo importing with tagging, filenaming, and directory structuring is good. The search functionality. WoW looks better with it. The built in voice recognition software worked pretty well for me though I quickly found that interacting with your computer verbally simply sucks balls.

Are any of these reasons in themself for an OS upgrade? No, I wouldn't have paid to do so. But they are things I like and so far I haven't run into anything I don't like. The only software problem I've run into is that the help files in my very old copy of PhotoImpact no longer work. Every other piece of pre-Vista software I moved over worked fine.

I'm sure, though, that you'll try to convince me that I really hate it and just don't know yet. Yes, it is bloated, all MS stuff is. Yes, it is technically inefficient, that goes with bloat. But it worked fine out of the box required no tweaking by me and makes Justin Long (in my own anecdotal experience) look like a liar.

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

So you spent exrta $$$ to make sure you could run Vista, and for that what exactly did you get in return? What is vista doing for you that XP would not do faster, better, cheaper?

Nope, didn't really spend any extra money. I bought a laptop, it came with Vista and had enough RAM to run it. So far, it has done everything I've wanted it to do. Would XP work just as well? Perhaps. But it was the same price to load the system with XP as it was Vista, and regardless, I wanted to have more RAM. So I don't feel like I sacrificed anything. And I don't think I am suffering in any way for my decision.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Motorboat Cruiser

Nope, didn't really spend any extra money. I bought a laptop, it came with Vista and had enough RAM to run it. So far, it has done everything I've wanted it to do. Would XP work just as well? Perhaps. But it was the same price to load the system with XP as it was Vista, and regardless, I wanted to have more RAM. So I don't feel like I sacrificed anything. And I don't think I am suffering in any way for my decision.

All that extra RAM goes into running the OS. Bleh. I'd rather see the focus on the applications.

Still, XP does have it's limits like the 4GB cap on RAM. Fortunitly the new memory hogging vista raises that limit to..... Oh, wait. Never mind Vista ram is capped at 4GB too.