whats is your reason for not swiching to vista?

[camper.]

1. My current PC would never run it, so I'm waiting for a new one in June
2. www.ubuntu.com

Thank God, someone who's actually honest :shock:

If it's not an incompatible PC, it's generally an incompatible brain.

[sava700]

I enjoy Vista and think its alot better than what it used to be... now I still run XP on my gaming rig but I see nothing really wrong with Vista now with the service pack out and the driver support taking a 180 since the release of the OS.

Most of those that hate it are just afraid of change...but be advised that XP support runs out next year as it will be over 8 years old at that point. You will then have Windows 7 released for testing which will come out around the 3rd quarter of 2010.

Either way your going to be forced to change to have some sort of support from Microsoft in the next two years.

[solofowaffles]

Yes because microsoft support is so helpful.

[=98=]

Yea, after SP1 the dreaded memory hog is gone. I now idle on less than i did with XP

[solofowaffles]

Question(or thread hijack w/e you prefer)

I installed my vista premium upgrade a long time ago but that hard drive died,so can i install it on my new one?

[Wizrdwarts]

I have no idea, but I would like to know too since I have an old copy of XP that was laying around unused, but it was already installed to an old computer.

[sava700]

Question(or thread hijack w/e you prefer)

I installed my vista premium upgrade a long time ago but that hard drive died,so can i install it on my new one?

Yes you can..however you may end up having to call microsoft and enter in the key displayed on the screen to re-activate it. If it doesn't work right that way they will send you to a "human" and just tell them exactly that and they will re-activate it.

[Vash2051]

Yes you can..however you may end up having to call microsoft and enter in the key displayed on the screen to re-activate it. If it doesn't work right that way they will send you to a "human" and just tell them exactly that and they will re-activate it.

QFT I've done this several times.

[kaheiyeh]

I tried using Windows Vista when it came out on my brother's shiny new laptop with it then and I got so fed up with it I never bothered to even consider changing from XP to Vista.

But then again, it's been a year since that. SP3 is due for Windows XP soon which I expect to be the last, so I'll probably switch over to Vista sometime in late 08 or early 09.

[L3adcannon]

DX10 won`t come to XP cause it just can`t work on it. DX9 can mimic the effects though.

[Vreki]

DX10 won`t come to XP cause it just can`t work on it. DX9 can mimic the effects though.

The DX10 implementation on Vista may not be portable, but I don't believe that Microsoft couldn't make a XP version if they wanted too. After all DX10 in itself is just an API.

I would rather pay 20$ for a XP DX10 than 200$ for a Vista. And that is probably the reason why we will never see DX10 on XP. There would be no real incentive to upgrade to Vista.

[Death Merchant]

Used in on my laptop for about a month and really wasnt impressed with the new layout, made things harder to find for me plus i got about 10 crashes BSOD's in the month i was using it, i much prefer windows xp, neat uncluttered and no fancy interfaces that hog resources

Ive got a vista premuim 32 bit disk if anyone wants it, Im staying with xp for the time being :)

[Chris_Redfield]

Yea, after SP1 the dreaded memory hog is gone. I now idle on less than i did with XP

Whats your idle stats?

[Eagle101]

1- Vista scares me, dont want to be a vista victim (no offense to vista users)
2- ME THINKS DX10 is a Marketing Scam, did not notice diff in WiC, CoH, Crysis.
3- Service packs, and to be Game-able.

[=98=]

Whats your idle stats?

About 600mb idle with Anti Virus and a range of background programs running.