unksol :
Vista is not the worst OS ever designed. Windows ME is.
XP has no advantages over windows 7. Realistically no one should ever be putting it on a new computer(unless you already have it and are cheap). 7 is also more stable
I never had any problems with Vista, but its really just a lesser version of 7. with some annoying features, and poor resource management. Again no logical reason to use it.
well, unless you have a Pentium 4 CPU and XPDM chipset and you don't plan to upgrade your computer
vista is the only option left
according to intel's website windows 7 doesn't support XPDM chipsets and according to MS vista is the last version of windows to support P4
you can install 7 on P4 but it will lag and freeze, i tried it on an old p4 desktop with 2gb ram and it can't do anything but lag
vista is a lower version but that doesn't mean that it's bad
vista sp2 is simply a w7 with different GUI
one of my friends compared vista ULT X64 sp2 to 7 ULT X64 SP1 on his laptop (core 2 duo 2.5 ghz and 4gb ram)
vista got higher bench marks and greater performance
"7 uses less ram than vista" :-that's because the minimized superfetch algorithm
vista uses a bigger algorithm ut it uses more ram but that also leads to higher performance
http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163824-vista-with-sp2-faster-than-windows-7-sp1/