.Sup wrote:
Bertster7 wrote:
.Sup wrote:
In what way is Vista superior?
In terms of security, it's miles and miles ahead of XP. In terms of small scale networking, it's a long way ahead of XP. In terms of overall system stability, it's way ahead of XP (I support a lot of Vista systems, I have yet to see one Vista system crash). Better updates and auto setup features. Better usability, due to things like having a search function that actually works properly and doesn't take all day. Better futureproofing. Better support for new software.
At what cost? A few dodgy drivers for some bits of hardware and slightly increased resource usage.
Let me tell you my experience with Vista. Now I don't know about networking but I'm not using any AV for half a year now. For me that excellent security. I'm on XP. Vista was never stable for me, had loads of errors. Never could got BF2 to run, tried everything. Sound is superior in XP. Ease of use is also a + for XP. In what way are the updates better? XP is safe, does Vista get something more through updates? Search function is indeed better in Vista than XP but I don't use it much. Xp is faster for me in games and overall daily working on the PC. About crashes, both crashed often its just I had Vista for 6 months and it crashed more often than XP in 7 years. Better futureproofing you say? Windows 7 will be out soon. So whats the point? And I haven't seen any better support for newer software for Vista. I guess the software you are mentioning is not essential for me.
You may say the security in XP is fine, it isn't. More security is always good. As for not running AV, that's just silly. The millions and millions of people who get nasty viruses on their computers each year, may well disagree with you on this security issue - which you don't seem to be basing your judgement on anything other than a very limited subjective experience.
You couldn't get it running stable, millions do. It is all down to your setup. Most peoples setups work beautifully with Vista, mine certainly does as have all the rigs I've built/configured to run it. This is most likely a driver issue, which is out of Microsofts hands and can be avoided by selecting thing judiciously. I've had BF2 running on Vista, so have millions of others. I have had no issues with Vista whatsoever (not a single crash on nearly 100 machines, including my own) - except my Audigy 2 didn't work, so I took it out of my system and everything was fine.
As for updates, you get many more with Vista. The update system is better in every way.
As for sound, Vista is better and has been demonstrated to be better at doing sound over SPDIF, which if you're serious about having clean audio, you should be using.
Vista is also easier to use than XP. Much easier to use. Just because things are in a slightly different place than you may be used to from an XP background, does not mean it is more difficult to use, just different and to a user who is new to MS OS's then Vista is certainly a lot easier to pick up than XP.
With a modern PC, using general apps is damn fast. Vista loses out in speed here to XP, but in some more intensive apps Vista dramatically outperforms XP. This is where performance becomes important, not on apps that run fast anyway, but on tasks that would take ages to run otherwise. Gaming is one area where Vista does indeed perform slightly worse, but as SM4 based graphics (and other new graphical technologies that XP will never support) become better used in games, running XP is going to seem like a worse and worse decision - especially as there are already games that run on Vista only and more are set to come.
