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Slow Death for Windows Vista - Packaged Software End of Sales Reached
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New #31
I have tried early Vista personally and did not like or get on with it so went back to XP and didn't re-install Vista. I'm sure there are lots like me who did not want to go through the Vista experience again and just waited for 7 to appear. As we can see from the figures, 7 has become a helluva lot more popular than Vista ever was, I think probably due to the beta test releases giving it a lot of free publicity and also a wider base of testers and opinion givers. (Yeah, Windows ME definitely sucked!!)
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New #32
I installed Vista 3 years ago on an XP machine and I've never went back to XP
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New #33
Maybe I should have given it a chance, but there must have been compelling arguement for why so many companies did not move over to it?
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New #35
I guess not a lot of companies can dance to the MS " You'll need to have this spec hardware to run our new OS" tune every time Uncle Bill releases a spanky new system!
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New #36
I think Vista is not bad at all. Its underrated. Perhaps I would recommend Windows 7 over it but its better than XP.
Its visual things, if you had the right hardware is not a problem at all and many people (XP users) find the UAC a strange module and think oh.. its a pain without learning to disable it anyway if that is the case. All this negative propaganda damaged its reputation as well. But I had more problems with XP than Vista. If you tweak it right, its so much better than XP.
The only thing that sets it down for me is that its a resource hog when it comes to restore points, there is no slider that can allocate it other than 15% of the disk space. You have to use that tricky command line thing so that you can make a custom space allocation for restore points other than 15%.
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New #37
I still use Vista for everything. Dad came home with a Windows 7 DVD one day, and I said that I didn't want it, and he could have it! I loved Vista, and I still do!
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New #38
It's nice to see a reasonable discussion on the OS subject.
If you like XP, use it.
If you like Vista, use it.
If you like Windows 7, use it.
I have nothing against any OS, some preferences but nothing against them.
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New #39
The fact that ReadyBoost works on 7 is great. Vista, not so well. R.B. works quite well on my overburdened laptop.
Also I don't think I can ever live without the Snap-To feature from this point on, as well as the accessible/selectable Thumbnail previews. Multi-tasking with 7 is SOOO much better than with the older OS's
Just my opinion.
Still like Vista, LOVE 7
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