XP by far over Vista. It was much easier to update and is less quirky.
It was a breeze to install drivers for XP, but Vista is a pain: especially 64-bit.
And the one at Microsoft who dreamed up UAC should be fired and blacklisted from any jobs dealing with PCs.:P:lol:
topsemag55
On newer hardware, that situation tends to be reversed. Vista is the one with the compatibility and xp is left floundering. Vista with the latest service pack easily out paces XP as far as OS quality is concerned.
Look at the title. Oh c'mon people aren't you all be nostalgic of xp and vista? :lol: How many time are you going to tell people to read the title when obviously they won't? Maybe you should change the poll to include Win 7? Anyways, like everyone else I prefer Win 7, but if it's between XP and Vista, then I'd choose Vista as long as it's SP2.
I would go with XP even though I encountered hardly any problems while using Vista. I didn't like how much space it took up on my HD. The visuals are pretty nice but I'm willing to let them go if I can save ~5gb of HD space.
XP overall. I haven't tried Windows 7 because nothing is compatible with it yet.
Lilyanne46
actually that isnt true alot of things are compatible, i have win7 had it since release and only had 1 problem with compatability it was from my old DVD drive it wouldnt install on that drive, put it in the other and it worked fine.
on topic out of those id choose XP, but given a broader choice of all avalible id go with win7 which i curently have.
Look at the title. Oh c'mon people aren't you all be nostalgic of xp and vista? :lol: How many time are you going to tell people to read the title when obviously they won't? Maybe you should change the poll to include Win 7? Anyways, like everyone else I prefer Win 7, but if it's between XP and Vista, then I'd choose Vista as long as it's SP2. Well I haven't try Win7.
I'm good with vista and will probably upgrade to windows 7 some time in the future. XP just feels so old to me now and I don't think I could ever go back even though it is an excellent OS.
Between Vista and XP, there's no question. XP by a landslide. If Seven were on there, though, then I'd choose it. The only thing I liked about Vista was its aesthetic. Otherwise it was slow, cumbersome, and frankly stupid.
XP all the way. Vista sucked for backwards compatibility with programs and hardware. Way too demanding on system resources. Not as secure that everyone thought. It's speaks for itself when even Microsoft had to push a new OS because Vista was as big as a flop like ME was. Big corprate businesses were ticked off of the new OS and the way Microsoft was trying to shovel Vista down yours and their throats. Vista cost everyone money and Microsoft knew it, so Windows 7 is their scapegoat.
I hate Vista, it's a joke. You should not have brought this topic up. I hate microsoft. I want them to die, all of them. They give me this piece of **** operating system then charge me $30 for a replacement disc since the disc they shipped me was cracked. All of this crap for this OS that under performs XP. This topic fills my mind with homicidal fantasies. Such as beating Bill Gates skull in with a framing hammer. I must leave before I smash my monitor.
I've just been using XP since it came out and I've never bothered to upgrade to Vista as it seemed to have a lot of problems with various add-on products and their software.
Snow Leopard never heard of that OS before It's the newest Mac OS I prefer Windows Vista Service Pack 3 (more commonly known as Windows 7 ;p.) But If I had to choose between the two listed, then Vista. It's fairly good now.
let me reiterate: as long as you have an amount of RAM that can be counted in GB, you can run Windows 7 just fine.
The minimum system requirement for 64bit Windows 7 is 2GB... in other words having 4 would be a good idea for a fast system.
I currently have 2GB of RAM on an XP system (4x512mb), which is more than enough for a speedy system. I would have to buy 4 sticks of 1GB RAM for my system + $200 for Windows 7 Pro (Basic is no good.)
That's too much. Why bother? You generally get higher FPS in most games in XP currently and every program/game I use works.
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