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XP lasted for 6 years before Vista was released, now every 2 and less years. Win 95-Win98, well about 3 years.
I was on Vista for less than a month before my win-7 upgrade disks arrived :)
I did not miss Vista at all,
Cheers.
Don't you guys kick Vista. That was a good system. I liked it very much. Still have 2 systems running with it.
Vista wasn't a bad OS, you just needed to have lots of computer resources. I bought a laptop a few years ago with Vista as the default OS.
I agree, Vista isn't the dog that it is often portrayed to be. It had it's problems to be sure, but so do all operating systems.
Vista got a bad rap from the beginning when it was put by OEMs on computers that were not up to it's resource demands. Vista was released 6 years after XP and a lot changed in computer hardware in that time. It was only natural that Microsoft would take advantage of these changes. Vista introduced many improvements that are still with us in Windows 8.
Vista would've been fine if they released it with SP1 included. I wasted hours every day tuning that thing. When I got a Vista x64 SP1 machine I compared the default services settings on the SP1 machine to those I tweaked on the Pre SP machine. They were virtually identical. Maybe 2 sevices were set to delayed start by default instead of manual. Something along those lines. They could have saved me all that effort. Plus the slow Explorer file copy was a dog. Had to use TeraCopy or KillCopy just to have a usable drag and drop copy. To make matters worse that damn Pre SP OS would not take SP1 no matter what. Talk about "annoyances!" That OS had enough to last me a decade.
My short stop on Vista was a good thing/ shock therapy
Win-7 made the transition complete from x-p,
Can't kick Vista too much because it wasn't there very long at all,
Cheers.