Ummm, no it isnt. Vista is quite a bit improved in a lot of aspects over XP. Programs open faster, boots quicker, more tools, just an overall better user experience IMO.
My daughter just got a laptop. It’s got the same hardware mine does - Celeron M with 1G Ram. The rest of the hardware is pretty much the same, too.
Mine, however, runs XP. Hers came with Visa. The poor thing is so bogged down by that bloated mess that it takes forever just to open a file. And no, there’s no viruses or popups. I’m afraid to tinker with some of the start programs to try and speed it up because the interface is so obnoxious.
Are you kidding me? Nothing works faster in Vista. It's shinier in the teletubby sense if you care for that, but faster??? Rather you need a super fast computer to make the bloated thing run at all.
Vista slower than XP at start-up, shutdown, gripe users
No wonder Microsoft started to give this thing away for free.