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vista was too slow for the hardware at the time. i havent bothered with 8 yet. i'm still not done migrating all my machines from XP to 7, lol.
 
Ghonzo said:
I bought two extra copies of Win7 if all else fails. I'm praying Win9 won't let me down cause Win8 sure got me bummed and raging. Don't hate me but I actually enjoyed having Vista it was a nice update from Xp
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There were a few pros with Vista, not a lot, but a few and enough to make it an unsuccessful OS. By far, Vista is not Microsoft's biggest flop - Windows ME anyone?

I think the problem with Vista was that the change FELT unnecessary when XP was still a viable platform (although showing its age by the time Vista came out).

All that aside, I think Microsoft found a true successor to XP in Win7. It's a stable OS, it's sleek and runs well in 64 bit mode.
 
v.Kamikaze said:
vista was too slow for the hardware at the time. i havent bothered with 8 yet. i'm still not done migrating all my machines from XP to 7, lol.
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Yeah, you're still playing source on XP. Interestingly enough, the wifi architecture around WinXP is better equipped to play Source on wifi; whereas on Win7, it creates unnecessary lag spikes.
 
el jorge loco said:
There were a few pros with Vista, not a lot, but a few and enough to make it an unsuccessful OS. By far, Vista is not Microsoft's biggest flop - Windows ME anyone?

I think the problem with Vista was that the change FELT unnecessary when XP was still a viable platform (although showing its age by the time Vista came out).

All that aside, I think Microsoft found a true successor to XP in Win7. It's a stable OS, it's sleek and runs well in 64 bit mode.
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I agree with all your points, I am very comfortable with Windows 7 64 bit as my primary OS. Win 9 is going to need to be very streamlined and a better memory manager showing real time enhancement of speed. You can place all the eye-candy in front of me and I couldn't give two shits, give me a system that runs dead nuts stable for a year and never blue screens or locks up. I will buy it.

Trouble with Windows 8 is solely on Microsoft management. They attempted to foist a mobile OS paradigm on the desktop market and the desktop market said screw you. Win 8 works well enough on my Surface Pro 2 and I actually like it in that environment. Win 9 will either be a better blend of the two markets needs\wants, or they will attempt to force us further into the mobile OS paradigm.
 
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When Windows XP came out, they changed the start menu, but they had the decency to add a Classic option that looked just like Windows 2000. If they had only done the same thing with Win8, I bet 99% of the complaints would be gone.
 
ME, pfft... MS themselves didnt even recommend buying that thing! hm... i had my 98 installation optimized to boot in less than 15sec, and it was portable! I moved those files from drive to drive throughout college until I caved to XP, lol.
el jorge loco said:
Yeah, you're still playing source on XP. Interestingly enough, the wifi architecture around WinXP is better equipped to play Source on wifi; whereas on Win7, it creates unnecessary lag spikes.
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The only devices on wifi in my house are those without an RJ45 port, lol.
 
I actually skipped ME from my machine ran Window 98 when it came out and boy that was awesome and played SC well :D. My school had ME in the computer lab and I just hated it with a passion.
 
lol, we never had ME at the UCI computer labs... only NT, 2K, then XP. they might've skipped vista, i'm not sure, but i do know they're using 7 now.
 
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