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Windows XP is by now a very stable and reliable operating system. As far as I can tell (I have used Vista for about 5 minutes on a friend's machine) there isn't

Windows XP is by now a very stable and reliable operating system. As far as I can tell (I have used Vista for about 5 minutes on a friend's machine) there isn't much that Vista offers as an upgrade to XP. Some of the UI "enhancements" are pretty much copied straight from OS X and some of the cool features that were promised for Vista were either not included (WinFS) or available for download in Windows XP. I'm not sure why anyone would consider upgrading to Vista.

amichail 19y ago
They would do so for security reasons. Vista runs apps in user mode.
- jamesbritt 19y ago
  "They would do so for security reasons. Vista runs apps in user mode." That, for me, became so annoying after a few days I turned it off. (I do keep running into inexplicable instances where I am not allowed to delete or move files I created without engaging in much unintuitive file property manipulations, so the machine still seems to be boss of things.) Vista is amazingly annoying in so many little ways. I suspect that is true of all OS, and people just become numb to them, but Vista seems keen on reminding me what "opinionated software" is all about. So far the only thing that keeps me from replacing Vista with XP is the pre-installed Media Center software. (I already set up the dual boot for Kubuntu, for Serious Computer Usage. :))
  - amichail 19y ago
    I believe this is mostly a problem with software that was not written with vista's user mode in mind.
stuki 19y ago
IIS7 is Vista/Longhorn only. Major reason to upgrade for developers. Also, like mattmaroon above, I fail to see why people hate Vista so much. I have no problems with it. Its stable, has support for my hardware and seems fast enough. And I run the x64 version, which is likely more quirky that the 32 bit one. I did do a fresh install, so I maybe upgrades are more problematic. I have also been a Mac/Linux user since the Windows95 days, so have little experience with XP and 2003.

amichail 19y ago

They would do so for security reasons. Vista runs apps in user mode.

jamesbritt 19y ago
"They would do so for security reasons. Vista runs apps in user mode." That, for me, became so annoying after a few days I turned it off. (I do keep running into inexplicable instances where I am not allowed to delete or move files I created without engaging in much unintuitive file property manipulations, so the machine still seems to be boss of things.) Vista is amazingly annoying in so many little ways. I suspect that is true of all OS, and people just become numb to them, but Vista seems keen on reminding me what "opinionated software" is all about. So far the only thing that keeps me from replacing Vista with XP is the pre-installed Media Center software. (I already set up the dual boot for Kubuntu, for Serious Computer Usage. :))
- amichail 19y ago
  I believe this is mostly a problem with software that was not written with vista's user mode in mind.

stuki 19y ago

IIS7 is Vista/Longhorn only. Major reason to upgrade for developers. Also, like mattmaroon above, I fail to see why people hate Vista so much. I have no problems with it. Its stable, has support for my hardware and seems fast enough. And I run the x64 version, which is likely more quirky that the 32 bit one. I did do a fresh install, so I maybe upgrades are more problematic. I have also been a Mac/Linux user since the Windows95 days, so have little experience with XP and 2003.