Apparentally people posting here have only used Vista for themselves and not researched anything. Before I start on that obviously the poster right above me has not read much on Windows 7. What is there to laugh at? Microsoft has claimed itself that Windows 7 will be a "lighter" system than Vista to use your reference. Try reading. Sure Microsoft's claims do not mean alot but you saying "most likely" is very opinionated obviously. Scrapping XP sales would have been the single biggest flop of 2008 period if they had done that.
I personally use XP and Vista Business at work and Vista Ultimate at home. So I happen to know what I am talking about. Saying Vista is solid only applies in select situations with select hardware. It is no where near the OS XP still is. I will be the first to admit I really like alot of the innovations and information additions Vista has over XP but as a solid OS is fails miserably. For those of you that think Vista has no problems do me a favor - do a little search on this phrase - nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered - and this is only one issue. Heck there is even a whole site dedicated to it now I just learned myself. And of course Microsoft does not accept blame and nVidia does not accept blame. I have heard of people with ATI having this issue though also though I am an nVidia user so I know more about it from that side. But if that is the case then it is hardly an nVidia issue and definitely leans towards a Vista issue. And if you have done the research I have to read how Vista handles driver response/gpu delays in responding back then you would probably believe it to be the fault of Vista as I do. And it is STILL going on. That is pretty much ridiculous when updating a video driver can be a nightmare and make a user cringe worrying if a horrible problem will show its ugly head again.
Vista even had issues with onboard nVidia network cards just randomly losing IP addresses and being locked on the default 127.0.0.1 IP. The same exact onboard nVidia network cards that work fine on XP and worked for months on XP before Vista. So either Vista has issues or for these drivers nVidia does not know how to code for Vista? Hmmm that could be the case and you know what else could be the case also is the Microsoft is not giving out the proper information on Vista for manufactors to code drivers correctly or that Vista is just plain faulty on some hardware support which would contradict the fact it is supposed to support the most hardware.
And now on from hardware problems - I play plenty of games and my hardware is not bottom line by any means. Several games are very quirky in Vista and one game just plain has fits with Vista and locks up randomly for no reasons. I play another game where in Vista the rain does not show up. Obviously a Vista issue and it is a directX 9 game. XP players do not have that problem. Another game I play was supposed to be directX 10 and 6 to 7 months down the road it still isn't playing with directX 10. I wonder why. Sure there is some games out there made for Vista and directX 10 but that is hardly main stream even if some of the titles are huge titles. The majority of main stream games is still directX 9 where XP excels by leaps and bounds over Vista. And games that are directX 9 have the possibility to have quirks in Vista where they don't even have to worry about it in XP. I do have a directX 10 video card also just to make note.
Lastly, for just as many good innovation as there is in Vista there is at least and equal amount of annoying and bad innovations. Many of which user's turn off but some can simply not be turned off. For example, trying to gain control and rights of a system folder to delete it to completely clean out a previous driver install. I will admit after doing this so many times it has become much easier but is still quite the nusiance when it needs to be done and of course my account is an admin account.
Ok I'm done. It just bothers me all the Vista fanboy's thinking they have the only computer in the world and if Vista run's on theirs it should run on everyone's. Lastly though, I forgot to say I do think if you are using a simple system and not doing much on it or playing games or pushing the boundaries of hardware Vista can work great as does the Vista Business version I use at work. Of course the work computer does not do everything my home computer does. But for me, I do not like being forced to hard boot my computer repetively when playing a game I like and I want an OS that works great with everything I want to do not just oh well that does not work so great so I won't play that game anymore or I won't use that hardware anymore. And once I get a GTX 285 and a new raptor drive I'm going back to XP myself.
I personally use XP and Vista Business at work and Vista Ultimate at home. So I happen to know what I am talking about. Saying Vista is solid only applies in select situations with select hardware. It is no where near the OS XP still is. I will be the first to admit I really like alot of the innovations and information additions Vista has over XP but as a solid OS is fails miserably. For those of you that think Vista has no problems do me a favor - do a little search on this phrase - nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered - and this is only one issue. Heck there is even a whole site dedicated to it now I just learned myself. And of course Microsoft does not accept blame and nVidia does not accept blame. I have heard of people with ATI having this issue though also though I am an nVidia user so I know more about it from that side. But if that is the case then it is hardly an nVidia issue and definitely leans towards a Vista issue. And if you have done the research I have to read how Vista handles driver response/gpu delays in responding back then you would probably believe it to be the fault of Vista as I do. And it is STILL going on. That is pretty much ridiculous when updating a video driver can be a nightmare and make a user cringe worrying if a horrible problem will show its ugly head again.
Vista even had issues with onboard nVidia network cards just randomly losing IP addresses and being locked on the default 127.0.0.1 IP. The same exact onboard nVidia network cards that work fine on XP and worked for months on XP before Vista. So either Vista has issues or for these drivers nVidia does not know how to code for Vista? Hmmm that could be the case and you know what else could be the case also is the Microsoft is not giving out the proper information on Vista for manufactors to code drivers correctly or that Vista is just plain faulty on some hardware support which would contradict the fact it is supposed to support the most hardware.
And now on from hardware problems - I play plenty of games and my hardware is not bottom line by any means. Several games are very quirky in Vista and one game just plain has fits with Vista and locks up randomly for no reasons. I play another game where in Vista the rain does not show up. Obviously a Vista issue and it is a directX 9 game. XP players do not have that problem. Another game I play was supposed to be directX 10 and 6 to 7 months down the road it still isn't playing with directX 10. I wonder why. Sure there is some games out there made for Vista and directX 10 but that is hardly main stream even if some of the titles are huge titles. The majority of main stream games is still directX 9 where XP excels by leaps and bounds over Vista. And games that are directX 9 have the possibility to have quirks in Vista where they don't even have to worry about it in XP. I do have a directX 10 video card also just to make note.
Lastly, for just as many good innovation as there is in Vista there is at least and equal amount of annoying and bad innovations. Many of which user's turn off but some can simply not be turned off. For example, trying to gain control and rights of a system folder to delete it to completely clean out a previous driver install. I will admit after doing this so many times it has become much easier but is still quite the nusiance when it needs to be done and of course my account is an admin account.
Ok I'm done. It just bothers me all the Vista fanboy's thinking they have the only computer in the world and if Vista run's on theirs it should run on everyone's. Lastly though, I forgot to say I do think if you are using a simple system and not doing much on it or playing games or pushing the boundaries of hardware Vista can work great as does the Vista Business version I use at work. Of course the work computer does not do everything my home computer does. But for me, I do not like being forced to hard boot my computer repetively when playing a game I like and I want an OS that works great with everything I want to do not just oh well that does not work so great so I won't play that game anymore or I won't use that hardware anymore. And once I get a GTX 285 and a new raptor drive I'm going back to XP myself.
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