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Vista is Slower, But XP Is Still Dying

Posted by Zonk on from the ugly-truth dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Though the Redmond software giant may be extending the lifetime of XP on low-end laptops, the end is nigh for the aging OS. That extension makes perfect sense, as recent studies have shown XP is far faster than Vista across a number of platforms. Still, Microsoft is 'sticking to its guns' when it comes to drop-dates for most other uses of the XP operating system. 'There are several dates that apply, but the one you're probably thinking of is the June 30 deadline that Dix referred to. That's the last day when large computer makers -- the Dells, HPs and Lenovos of the world -- will be allowed to preinstall Windows XP on new PCs. It also marks the official end of XP as a retail product.'"

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  1. Has NetCraft confirmed by smittyoneeach · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...that XP thinks it is BSD?

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    1. Re:Has NetCraft confirmed by Winckle · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, XP is a zombie.

      Lovecraft confirms it.

  2. two words by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windows Classic... they'll hire some marketing guy from Coca Cola to run the campaign. "You told us this was the software you grew up on...."

  3. Re:Vista is dying you say? by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo · · Score: 1, Funny

    You can have my copy of XP when you pry it from my cold dead hands. As long as there are people out there using hardware that won't run Vista (ie anybody not working on the Human Genome Project or running a cluster) there will be people working on and patching XP.

    I'm running the triple-crown right now (XP, OSX, and Ubuntu) in my graphics lab. For a laugh I put a Vista machine in. The students refused to use it and I ended up giving it to one of our faculty. The render stats for Maya and Studio Max are well in XP's favor.

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  4. Someone buy microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't know about you all, but I'm ready for someone to buy Microsoft and turn it around.

  5. Next generation OS. by gnutoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    You might have heard of this little thing called GNU/Linux that's been able to do everything XP and Vista can but with far fewer resources. No? Oh well, run your 7 year old OS and wait for Windows 7. The 7 to 7, or 7up should match the Coke classic upgrade very well, complete with a corn syrup obesity epidemic. Where did you want to go yesterday?

    1. Re:Next generation OS. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Actually, here at microsoft HQ, we've replaced all the Windows developers with "retarded crack monkeys", as you put it. It really saves on development costs. The only drawback is getting the verious drugs (crack, LSD, meth, etc) that the monkeys are on. The reason for this is simple. Have you ever heard of a normal monky creating an operating system? It's ludicrous! Unless, of course, the monkeys are as high as a kite!

      The drawbacks are, well, install Vista and you'll see for yourself. The upsides are more coffee and donuts, and Lord Balmer leaves the chairs alone.

      As for other "crack monkey" developers out there, we license our drugged monkeys to other companies, so everyone can enjoy the benefits of using lower primates to do all their programming work for them!

  6. That was easy by symbolset · · Score: 4, Funny

    How do I run Office 2007 and VS 2008 under Linux?

    In a VM or better yet in a Citrix session, silly. That's not a good excuse to run Windows as your base OS.

    What about current and next gen games? How do I get those to work?

    This wikipedia link should help.

    No charge. If you need anything else I'll be here all day.

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    1. Re:That was easy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Maybe you could help me. PLZ HELPZ ME!! I want to switch over to Vista but I'm having a hard time finding the apps to replace the things I use most. Every one says to use Paint, but it just doesn't do everything I like as Gimp does. Also what should I use to replace vi? I've tried notepad but there is so much to learn, all these menus and button flash... I'm just a normal person. I want to turn it on and have it work, not fiddle with all this license and fee goop. Maybe you uber geeks like all this msconfig nonsense, but for a normal user it's just a hassle. I spent two hours on the phone trying to get my Vista box authorized... until Microsoft can get a simple interface for installation like apt-get or emerge I really don't think they will find much of a market in the desktop realm! Don't hate, just my two centz!

    2. Re:That was easy by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oh yea... and a company that makes you pay $1k a license but gives it to your competitors for $98 or even free (by ignoring piracy) to get foreign markets to grow.

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  7. Bring back 3.1 !!!!!! by paradochs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hah. Yeah, XP may be faster than Vista. Then again, I'm sure that Windows 3.1 would run faster than XP. Why don't we bring that back? Vista is a platform. A platform on which an amazing new set of features can be implemented. Just wait for Windows 7. It'll show the true power of the Vista platform.

  8. Vista is faster by Billly+Gates · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have written many anti vista postings since I bought a notebook with Vista loaded on it last decemember.

    Most of the anti vista comments here are untrue after you get used to it, use the new start menu features and install SP1, updated drivers, and bios upgrades.

    Both hogs such as Netbeans and OpenOffice ran slower on my notebook than XP assuming Vista is set up properly. Disk fetching and better caching is how I attribute the performance increase.

    The majority of Vista bashes are from those who have semi supported hardware.

    My notebook was running off of disk PIO mode during startup and no sata was loaded with the default Vista install. As you can imagine my system took forever to boot and when Vista indexed it slowed things down. I bashed Vista constantly here.

    I downgraded to XP but upgraded back to Vista. I missed the windows index search when you hit the start button. Here is a hint for XP users.... your not supposed to find your programs by your mouse. Just type it in! Also I can search my javadocs and my ms word papers for school quickly by seaching by content. I go to a christian school with bible versus required in my papers. Vista makes my job easier as I type a subject and it searches the index for my conent.

    Vista is not fast after Toshibe provided an SD sata driver and a bios update to start vista quickly. SP1 fixed the constant disk usage. It rarely ever gets in the way once things are up. Wow is just as fast in vista as in XP. Maybe only a few fps slower.

    But Vista is nice for computer neophytes and the hardware markers need to take the heat for the negative public opinion.

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