Review: Windows XP [the advantages of upgrading]

Coding Sanity ^ | December 14, 2007 | codingsanity

[gondramB]

>>Remember, this is by people who make a living programming for Windows.<<

There is one key thing Vista does better than XP - XP does not effectively use more than 2 gigs of RAM while Vista does.

Of course Vista needs 3-4 gigs to runs as well as XP does with 2...:)

[org.whodat]

I was thinking of copying and storing my version of Vista for later but I have a feeling as many do in the blogosphere that Vista will go the way of Windows ME.

Alway throw trash in the trash can, somewhere I read it was over with sometime next year.

[ShadowAce]

[ThomasThomas]

But the name Vista is a better name in several ways. It just seems to roll off the tongue unlike XP. And everybody knows if your working with Jr High boys you you need to avoid saying the letter ‘P’. It just starts them down a path you don’t want to follow. You spend the rest of the day trying to change the subject. Then the letter ‘X’ extreme this, extreme that. Everything needs to be extreme something lately. But they named it XP, we just don’t need to go any futher.

[ShadowAce]

You’re right. I did enjoy this—mainly because I’ve always thought the move from Vista to XP is an upgrade.

[antiRepublicrat]

It just doesn't seem right.

Everyone is assumed to be guilty, you have to prove you aren't.

[antiRepublicrat]

There is Windows XP 64-bit. Vista 32-bit has the same memory limit, exacerbated by the fact that your video card memory counts against your 4 total GB limit.

[tubebender]

Signed up tomorrow to post today? Congratulations...

[martin_fierro]

Windows XP has quite a cartoony look and feel compared to the slick look of Aero Glass, this is mostly offset by the lack of strange screen artifacts caused by malfunctioning graphics code. You know, almost like static on the screen.

You are there.

[pepperhead]

Lucky for me I didn’t have to upgrade my Vista compatible computer to XP since that is what it had when I got it.

[pepperhead]

Vista's main drawback is being a resource hog. Of course, Microsoft needs bloatware so PC makers can sell ever more powerful personal computers.

They wouldn't do something like that now would they? ;)

[bannie]

It’s hard to find everything!

[Tribune7]

LOL

[arthurus]

I am still staying with W2000. MSFT has intimidated me out of using their newer releases with all the threats they made to take over my machine and eliminate programs and files they don’t care for or shut me down/ruin my box altogether by remote control. MSFT seems to have some megalomaniacal aspirations. MSFT said twice, when XP was released and now with Vista that if you have their OS in your box then MSFT owns your software (from any source) and your box, too. They did not seem to follow through with XP but I don’t trust them at all now. I do not do games so that is not a reason I might have to have XP or Vista.

[texas booster]

I am tempted to upgrade my new copy of Vista to XP.

Has anyone successfully received a copy of XP from HP and received the required drivers so it runs smoothly?

[dennisw]

bttt

[Repeal 16-17]

I have a feeling as many do in the blogosphere that Vista will go the way of Windows ME.

There's little in Vista that justifies paying "upgrading" from XP to Vista. Microsoft is already working on "Windows 7." Vista should be called Windows ME 2007.

[papasmurf]

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[Duke Nukum]

That’s a good point, I never took time dysfunction into account when considering Vista vx. XP.

[Duke Nukum]

That's DOWNgrading. Isn't Vista supposed to be the latest and greatest Microsoft OS?

I made that same mistake, obviously some sort of time dysfunction is going on and time isn't happening chronologically anymore.