People that have stability problems with XP SP2 are likely causing it themselves. My system runs for a week or more at a time until I shut it down if I'll be gone a few days or it's storming heavy. That's through heavy gaming, VPN to work, and wife's uses, and my 9 yr olds games. I'll occasionally have a problem with a new video driver release but I'm not going to blame that on Microsoft. I haven't used Vista yet but I know it has a more stable core and better code than XP. Currently driver and application problems make it unstable and that will get better as each month goes by with new releases, as as programmers learn to follow the new rules.
I have put linux on a partition on my custom system due to my disgust with Microsoft. It is my understanding that longhorn is server 03 based. Why not open it up and allow XP to have direct x 10?
Vista has deep down changes that make it difficult to pass back in time to old XP, even if they wanted to. Which they don't because they want people to move into the future (and pump in more revenue, like every company ever created wants). Win95 was better than 3.1. XP is better than Win98. The future will be better yet. Otherwise we'd all be driving black Model A's to the mall.
Vista's system requirements are ridiculous!
I don't see anything wrong with Vista's requirements. I saw a $650 PC at Best Buy with a AMD X2 5000+ CPU and 1 GB of memory. Vista will run on it and it would be a powerful system for 80% of consumers. People on this forum and any medium to heavy gamer are likely to already have a system much stronger than Vista needs.
When Direct x 9 is gone, what will xp gamers do? Bend over to Microsoft and take it?
DX9 is nice but has reached it's limits. XP is 6 years old. Get over it and move on. Far Cry's graphics were fantastic at the time. Did you want games to stop at that level, or would you rather see games (and other app's) get even better over the next few years? You can't have it both ways.
Its called open source: Wine, Cedega on linux. Several issues arise, including how long it will take to "port" over Direct x 10, how efficient it can become, and as a last resort, appeal to programmers to make all games compatable with open gl.
Wine, etc. isn't without flaw. That's the problem with Linux fanatics. They think it's the center of the universe. Yet it has some major drawbacks too. It isn't yet ready for grandma to install and use for one thing. When there is a problem, do you expect her to search tech forums and ask detailed questions and be able to understand the answers? The rest of us use Windows because we have to be compatible with the zillions of other people using Windows. The OS means nothing to 99% of all computer users. A PC is just a tool so they can send email, file taxes easy, produce a movie, run a plasma cutter in their factory, etc.
Also the entire "Free!" Linux mentality really bugs me. Same slimy people that steal works from copyright holders. You expect a company to invest $15 million dollars or more and a couple years of time developing a major game just to give it away? Time has shown that the Linux community won't pay for software. Thus, almost nothing of quality is produced for it by a company that has investors to answer to. Sure, some of the people tolling away in their homes have done some cool and useful programs. But honestly answer how much of it Linux users would pay $25, $60, $300 for? On the other hand time has proven that Windows users do pay $60 for a game and $500 for an application. So they get all the good development. Same problem for Macintosh. Great systems and OS but small marketshare and companies put their efforts where they'll get the biggest return on their investment.
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