I won’t bore you with all the details of a recent XP-vs-Vista benchmarking test except to say that it involved Office 2007 productivity tasks, XP with Service Pack 3 Beta, and Vista with Service Pack 1 Beta. XP whipped through the test in 35 seconds, while Vista took 80 seconds. Both tests were run on a Dell 2GHz Core 2 Duo with 1GB of RAM.
I will tell you what Microsoft representatives had to say about the results of the test.
One of them pointed to the fact that the service packs aren’t finished yet and will get better before their respective releases. Okay fine, you can use that excuse for now but Vista’s got a lot of catching up to do and most of what I’ve been reading alludes to the idea that this first service pack isn’t going to really improve everything as much as Microsoft might have us all believe.
This next quote, however, gives me aggravation. In light of the fact that only about 13 percent of business are using Vista, Microsoft’s corporate vice president Mike Sievert said, "Frankly, the world wasn’t 100 percent ready for Windows Vista."
Is this guy serious? The world wasn’t ready for Vista? What about Vista not being ready for the world? It doesn’t work. It hasn’t worked correctly for a year now. There’s been plenty of spin coming out of Redmond about Vista’s "features" but I can’t remember one that insulted everyone’s intelligence as much as this one does. The world wasn’t ready…come on, man.
I seem to sometimes forget that Windows XP didn’t really start cruising until Service Pack 2. I honestly can’t remember much before Service Pack 1 except for the feeling that SP1 made it work well enough that most of the major annoyances had subsided and then when SP2 came along, almost everything seemed to get much, much better. I suppose I should expect the same from Vista but I guess I just assumed that it would be an improvement over XP right out of the gate and then have the kinks worked out along the way.
I have Vista on one hard drive and XP on another hard drive Iv been switching back and forth between operating systems. Let me put it this way XP just works. Vista just does not work no matter what you do with it its feels like garbage it sure dosent game good at all it also like to crash and do strange things. XP just works its way more effecient and well programmed. Im running all new modren hardware so thats not the issue. Vista fails when it comes to resources 700MB RAM at the desktop! Thats just one example that they should have pulled the plug on this puppy!!! On the other hand XP gets by with 300MB at the desktop and it works well with all programs and applications and its fast. There is no reason to get vista besides its all buggy and messed up and slow. Look at it this way lets pretend XP and Vista looked the same. Ok you would choose the one that works best it seems people like vista for its looks. Because after all it only has its looks. I remember getting XP when it was new it just worked right out of the box. Vista out the box no way… it kinda reminds me of Windows ME. There is no Service Pack cure for Vista only way to fix it is to start over.
Actually I run a Vista system,
I update my computer the second updates are available,
I compared my Vista computer with the rest of my friend’s Xp,
my computer was the fastest of them all.
The only bad thing about vista is the compatibility with some software, but you can easily download a new version of the software and done =D
wow, you should not be posting on forums, awful arguement
Windows XP is so much better because the minimun to run is 256MB ram and with 1 GB it whoops some ass!, you have over 512MB or more for programs, system resources, and much more. However, Vista is so slow and crappy with windows aero if you dont have at least 2gb ram. You need your computer to be fast and reliable right? and you also want your hardware to play nicely with your software without freezing up everytime?.
Windows XP SP3 will always win the battle over Vista.
WIndows vista sucks man honestly. An xp AMD Anthlon vs a vista dell 2.00GHz duo core processor and the Amd won man Xp did it in 35 Minutes while vista did it with 1 Hour.