> In the case of Vista, at least with my experience, there is absolutely no advantage over XP
I really find this discussion is getting very old. Vista was designed with the idea in mind that if you decide not to make performance the central goal of the operating system (as hardware has come on a lot over the years and it is not as much a concern anymore) then what kinds of things can you achieve and what do you focus on. In vista they decided to use "safe" code where ever possible. By safe code they mean C# which im told is not prone to errors like out of bounds array indexes etc.. Except for a small core of code (such as the garbage collector whihc was the example given) all the drivers are written in C# rather than C or assembly as in other OSs. This means a performance hit but should mean that serious crashes and BSODs are a thing of the past. I for one see this as making a lot of sound sense and would be interested in trying it out. I think where microsoft go wrong (this is debatable as I would say wrong from my point of view but from their point of view and a marketing one im sure they would say its right) all the crap they add on top of the reasonably solid core of their OSs. Crappy DRM filled media player, outdated means of configuration (registry).... I could go on but im lazy...
So for someone to say there are no advantages of vista over XP does not really make sense in my mind. Also everyone knows that vista is slower but thats what dual cores are here for so I dont see much relevence to the fact mentioned above that office is 10% slower under vista than XP.
Before anyone goes and flames me for being a microsoft fanboy I can assure you I am not. In my work and studies I use all linix/unix machines and have a 12" powerbook for browsing/ssh client/music etc... I am happy in my MS free life;-)
It seems pointless to argue over OS. Vista WILL succeed XP in due course and those who want to can use whatever other OS they choose. Think people should get past the OS and concentrate more on what they do with it/use it for etc...
Just my 2c....
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> In the case of Vista, at least with my experience, there is absolutely no advantage over XP I really find this discussion is getting very old. Vista was designed with the idea in mind that if you decide not to make performance the central goal of the operating system (as hardware has come on a lot over the years and it is not as much a concern anymore) then what kinds of things can you achieve and what do you focus on. In vista they decided to use "safe" code where ever possible. By safe code they mean C# which im told is not prone to errors like out of bounds array indexes etc.. Except for a small core of code (such as the garbage collector whihc was the example given) all the drivers are written in C# rather than C or assembly as in other OSs. This means a performance hit but should mean that serious crashes and BSODs are a thing of the past. I for one see this as making a lot of sound sense and would be interested in trying it out. I think where microsoft go wrong (this is debatable as I would say wrong from my point of view but from their point of view and a marketing one im sure they would say its right) all the crap they add on top of the reasonably solid core of their OSs. Crappy DRM filled media player, outdated means of configuration (registry).... I could go on but im lazy... So for someone to say there are no advantages of vista over XP does not really make sense in my mind. Also everyone knows that vista is slower but thats what dual cores are here for so I dont see much relevence to the fact mentioned above that office is 10% slower under vista than XP. Before anyone goes and flames me for being a microsoft fanboy I can assure you I am not. In my work and studies I use all linix/unix machines and have a 12" powerbook for browsing/ssh client/music etc... I am happy in my MS free life ;-)
It seems pointless to argue over OS. Vista WILL succeed XP in due course and those who want to can use whatever other OS they choose. Think people should get past the OS and concentrate more on what they do with it/use it for etc...
Just my 2c....