http://vistasucks.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/desktop-os-hold-the-vista/ Ramblings from an Ex-Vista Fanboy Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:05:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU http://vistasucks.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/desktop-os-hold-the-vista/#comment-5860 whyamistilltyping Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:25:36 +0000 http://vistasucks.wordpress.com/?p=797#comment-5860 hmmm, interestingly enough, Windows 7 is Windows Vista - just with a lot of tweaks and improvements. I am no fan of Microsoft nor Vista which was released too late with too few of the features that were promised. Saying this, Vista is a great step forward from XP but at a fair cost. The problem is, XP has been around for so many years, people have forgotten that every new major edition of Windows comes at an increased hardware plenalty. Yes Linux does most of the things Vista does in a third of the RAM, yes Vista is not a major step forward compared to XP for the average, uneducated user but in a lot of ways it is. I find a percentage that high fairly hard to believe especially the number of Vista machines I see go through my work for support compared to this time last year. hmmm, interestingly enough, Windows 7 is Windows Vista - just with a lot of tweaks and improvements. I am no fan of Microsoft nor Vista which was released too late with too few of the features that were promised. Saying this, Vista is a great step forward from XP but at a fair cost. The problem is, XP has been around for so many years, people have forgotten that every new major edition of Windows comes at an increased hardware plenalty. Yes Linux does most of the things Vista does in a third of the RAM, yes Vista is not a major step forward compared to XP for the average, uneducated user but in a lot of ways it is. I find a percentage that high fairly hard to believe especially the number of Vista machines I see go through my work for support compared to this time last year.

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