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Consumer Group Demands XP for Vista Victims
thefickler writes "Dissatisfaction with Windows Vista seems to be swelling, with the Dutch Consumers' Union (Consumentenbond) asking Microsoft to supply unhappy Vista users with a free copy of Windows XP. Not surprisingly, Microsoft refused. This prompted Consumentenbond to advise consumers to ask for XP, rather than Vista, when buying a new computer."
The fact is that Windows XP is a huge improvement over 2000 from both the consumer and corporate vantage point.
XP is more compatible and stable than 2000 ever was. With an improved scheduler and a revamped memory allocation subsystem, XP gives substantial punch to the laggard known as 2000. You have to also remember that Windows Me - the Millennium Edition - was marketed in reference to 2000 - however, ME was designed exclusively for the home. The problem? It wouldn't play games.
XP is a gamers platform, and it's what the X in XBOX comes from. The XBOX-360 takes it full circle, and has delivered some of the advanced technology that is in Vista (but isn't being exercised by the weak 3rd party software vendors. Adobe! Wake up! I think it's dead, Jim.)
With other advanced such as Live and SS, it's pretty clear that XP has propelled the industry forward, and allowed for the Internet to reach where it is today. After all, today we see that most XP-home computers are really a part of a powerful distributed computing system. 2000? Not a chance.
So what did XP bring to the plate that 2000 didn't? Just about everything, including the rapid growth of McAfee, Norton, and other similar software giants.
At the time of this writing it's modded down. In fact, many anti-Vista posts in this thread are modded down, which is pretty odd on Slashdot. I thought this place was a stronghold of anti-Microsoft and anti-Windows people. In any case, modding down completely reasonable posts that are anti-Vista is just fucking retarded.