Just want to know which software you PPL are using.
What Do You Prefer Most - Vista or XP

I think to upgrade my XP with Vista after more than six month.

I have both and at the moment I wish I just had XP. Lots and lots of Vista bugs. Completely diffrent to use, takes ages to get used to...

My oppinion anyway. When they bring out more patches it will be better.

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XP SP2 !, My self i wont be looking at Vista until SP1 is released this winter coming as a few people i know have it and are having problems, but by the time SP2 hits it will be a brilliant OS

Thats just my opinion !

Cat

I wont be going over the vista for a long time, a very long time,

basically because i have got used to XP

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The one time i used vista was on my mates laptop (he is a beta tester) or something like that, and i cant say i enjoyed it much really, to fancy for me.

Computwiz

I have seen and tried Vista Beta they called it RC something, only thing i was not keen on was the side bar, maybe MS has improved on it in its present release TBH i have not looked at Vista lately but I'm sure by the time SP1 & 2 are released it will be fine, Vista is a very young OS and as with all young things Patience is required

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The vista side bar has always been there (not always been there but you know what i mean i hope), since they made it (apperently anyway) i very much doubt that MS will improve it, as they are already working on getting it more secure, SP1 has already been released hasn't it?

Vista is pritty stable to my understandings, so i dont really know why they want exstra time to make it more stable.

I think vista will be a good thing for microsoft, will make them millions and i recon by 2012 it will have taken up most of the market over XP

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I've heard that from someone else but I can't find it on Windows Update. If you can see a page on the Microsoft website please link me to it!

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I don't think SP1 is around just yet. Maybe for Christmas!

sounds greate oh i do love vista :P

NOT

Computwiz

Depends on your hardware really

After using Vista since beta 2, using XP feels like hitching a dairy cow to an ox cart.

Windows XP seems to have obvious problems with >2GB RAM, in terms of the lengthy amount of time it seems to spend caching for no particular reason. Not to mention Windows XP seems to have %15~20 load bias for >1 processor cores.

Sure it doesn't benchmark as well, but in general, the responsiveness is considerably improved. Having said that, most people are better off with XP, as Vista does take a little commitment at this stage.

Most of the opinion out there, especially in the media, seems pretty negative and ill informed (a lot seems to come from people who never used it, or can't). I read (lets say, picked up briefly then threw down in disgust) one of those PC magazines a few months ago. There was an article in there where they detailed how you can "turn Windows XP into Windows Vista" with a few bits of third party software. Not only was it full of stupid, stupid advice such as simulating ReadyBoost by putting the page file on a flash drive (close, but no cigar.), I've seen the results of someone trying their nonsense. The result; system ran like a dog. Surprise surprise, there's more to Vista than a UI update.

To be honest, I jumped on it early because I didn't want to be one of those "experts" who stagnate on old technology and refuse to change