People Are Still In Love With Windows XP – I Wonder Why?

Staying with XP is something my grandma would do.

Seriously, I run Vista on a desktop and laptop machine and it works great.

The only people I know that don’t like Vista are the tools buying computers with only 1 or even 2gigs of memory on a Pentium 4 or the slowest cheapest processor available from Dell.

WinXP ran like crap on my Celeron just the same years ago when I only had 128mb of memory. Oh and how people gave XP so much shit when it first came out. There must be a lot of people out there with really short term memories.

If anyone is to blame… blame the distributors who are selling PC’s with the cheapest minimal hardware requirements inside.

I bet your wife would be mad… rightly so… It’s probably not at least 4gigs of memory or a newer processor.

I install Vista for people that, “Heard all kinds of bad things about Vista.” They are always happy when I’m done, though. Because I use good hardware, not old hardware designed for an old generation of technology.

Hi Phillip,
You are correct. Her hardware won’t support Vista nor 7. But she likes XP while I favor Vista.
Thanks for stopping by.

I’m still using XP because I have yet to hear one substantial reason why I should upgrade. What are the compelling features that should make me want to upgrade? All I hear is that the UI is really cool. Gee, at 65, cool passed me by about 30 years ago. And if it is so cool, why do so many tech sites recommend turning Aero off to improve performance? There were also some claims about improved security. But why are all of the Tech sites filled with articles on how to shut off UAC?

I’ve been in the IT business for 45 years. So long, in fact, that it was called DP when I started (that stands for Data Processing for you yung’uns). The first computer I saw was an IBM 1401. I’ve had a personal computer in my house since Commodore 64 days. Today I have 4 PC’s in my house. Comparing my primary PC to that 1401 is mind boggling.

One thing I am certain about is that nobody buys a computer for the OS. Applications drive all purchasing decisions whether for the home or for business. So my point is that until application software is written that takes advantage of some new capabilities in the OS, there is no compelling reason to upgrade.

Only 1 percent of it is about HARDWARE.
It is the FACT that VISTA is CRAP when you want to add changes. OH sure, its great for your GRANDMA. Or some OTHER adult who doesn’t know 2 CENTS worth of Computing.
IF all the person is GONNA do is “Check Email”, Use the Programs ALREADY installed” then it is Perfect. But for someone wanting to ADD a program. It becomes Worthless.
20 Minutes for me TO explain to a person HOW to “click past” the 20 steps of SECURITY, just to add a FRIGGEN Frogger game. COME ON.
OH……. and lets NOT forget, the Horrors of trying to CONFIGURE for Internet or an existing HOME network.

XP …. has made it through the fires. People have come up with “tweeks”, and you can ADD protection for GRANDMA, if needed. OH and lets NOT forget about the headache of trying to navigate VISTA.

Well, I think that some laziness and people habits are also behind this “XP love”: changing an OS is not so simple and risk free.

Also Today OS have a shortened life (see Vista and Windows 7) and upgrades are not for free.

If you add the fact that not everybody (I would say the majority) feels the need to have the latest technology and software onboard…then recipe is done to have XP still loved by people

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Hey Ron,

I think it’s because people finally got used to XP and they learned it, then MS changes the game with Vista. Also, so many people got burned by Vista and its initial lack of driver support and all the problems associated with it at release, that they just don’t want to touch it with a ten foot pole.

Great story, take care!

I have DELL GX 260 2 GIG processor 1.5 GIG Memory with a old Radeon 9250 256 Meg video card, it runs XP. Now I have done the Vista Readiness on this old dinosaur and it can run Vista but it is chugging away on good old XP. As IT Pro myself I am not into the lastest and great to be honset, in fact next PC might be an 3 year or 4 year old Dual Core. my main things are email, MSN and the odd photo upload. Right now XP is a great base for all of that to be honest. I beleive Microsoft got it wrong and should of stuck with the principals of XP and just did major updates like Linux does. Windows 7 is another OS with lots of candy that people really do not need or truly use.
That is probally the reason XP is still around it works it’s not fancy and but one thing it is rock solid.

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No.
I’ve never loved XP (I did however loved 2k), I could live with Vista 64 and I’m starting to feel all warm and fuzzy about windows 7 (I’ve been using the RC for a couple of weeks now and it’s damn nice without feeling like a complete tosser like when I use OS X)

THERE ARE A COUPLE OF REASONS I WILL NOT SWITCH YET. #1 I HAVE *TONS* OF SOFTWARE THAT I CAN NOT AFFORD TO REPLACE THAT IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH VISTA. #2 I AM WAITING FOR MORE BUGS TO BE FIXED.

ONE UNDERLYING REASON THAT I AM WOMAN ENOUGH TO ADMIT IS THAT I JUST DON’T LIKE CHANGE. IT TOOK 2 YEARS BEFORE I WOULD SWITCH FROM ‘98 TO XP BUT BY THEN *LOTS* OF THE BUGS HAD BEEN FIXED. VISTA IS A PRETTY GOOD PROGRAM IN IT’S OWN RIGHT. ESPECIALLY FOR PEOPLE LIKE MY MOM, IT IS VERY USER AND NON COMPUTER LITERATE PEOPLE FRIENDLY.
ALSO I DONT LIKE IT WHEN TECHNOLOGY TAKES THE POWER OUT OF THE HAND OF THE USER. I ALSO HAVE YET TO SWITCH TO SATA DRIVES SINCE THEY THINK THEY ARE SMARTER THAN ME.
I HAVE HAD 2 CLOSE FAMILY MEMBERS WHO GOT NEW COMPUTERS AND THEY HAD SATA DRIVES AND THEY CRAPPED OUT AFTER JUST 1 MONTH. NO WARNING, JUST **POOF** NOTHING. I WOULD GET A MESSAGE THAT THE DRIVE HAD FAILED AND THAT WAS IT. MY IDE DRIVES HAVE NEVER DONE THAT.

I THINK I WILL JUST WAIT AND SKIP DIRECTLY TO WIN 7 ONCE IN A COUPLE OF YEARS.

well to be honest,
my computer got conviscated by the police now im getting it back monday and i do wonder.
do i stick with XP wich so far has never let me down or do i switch to Windows 7 RC wich has positifly exicted me for my laptop.
what do you think
( IM NOT GOING VISTA )
AMD Phennom 2 4x 3ghz.
Foxconn destroyer motherboard.
4 gigs of OCSZ ram DDR2
EVGA Geforce 9800GTX+
3 terabytes of storage internal
1 TB external.
Aver Media TV tuner card with scart.
and one cheap ass 7.1 surround card.

im looking for the best OS for my games.
plz help

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Hello Sun,
You can go with W7 as long as there are new drivers available for all of your hardware, which hopefully there will be. Also with W7 you can run XP virtually if needed to play your games. XP will be provided for free for Pro and Ultimate versions.

To everyone that responded. Thanks to all of you for sharing your thoughts with us. It is appreciated.

Honestly, the only reason I have not switched on my desktop, is I have it setup right now for my little brother and sister to use at the same time, and am not willing to put my Windows 7 RC on my main home computer, and am not willing to pay to put it on a computer when I have my newer laptop which came installed with Vista (which after some tweaking I am more then happy with I might add). So for me it is mainly more about the price of upgrading when in the end it serves no purpose, they are myspace and email checker’s, maybe some chatting and movie watching, but no need for newer OS type of people.

i have a pc and netbook that both run windows XP and i have been using it since 2006, i have no plans to install/upgrade to vista, but i will be upgrading to win 7 when it goes on sale once there are compatible drivers for my hardware. (vista in my oppinion is just buggy).

XP is proven to be a solid OS. I have personally experienced several problems with Vista, mainly relating to networking. All the security features are overkill and the fact that you have to confirm when you open a program is ridiculous. XP hasn’t let me down so far and I say “if it ain’t broke, why fix it”

Well here’s my hopefully short story:

I saw my first computer at age 2. It ran DOS. I loved it for all of its games! I still remember playing Lemmings all day while my dad was working on our TRS-80 Model 4. I loved it later for how fun it was to program, but that’s another story.

So we finally got a Windows computer with Windows 95 and we were ok with it. Then we upgraded it to Windows 98 SE. We used it until 2001 and we loved it! Then in 2001 we got our top of the line XP machine. We loved it when we got it and we still love it as our main computer now. The fact is that we have gotten two brand new PCs since then, both are the exact same model. They came with Vista and at first, I loved it. Then I tried using it. And I found myself downloading VirtualPC and working in XP all day.

In the past year I’ve found myself adjusting to Vista and its flaws, especially since its had two service packs already and a lot of bugs are fixed.

Now that I’m ok with Vista, 7 is coming out. I’ve got the release candidate as a part of my tri-boot (Vista, 7, Ubuntu) and it looks like it should be slower than Vista, but it is actually faster. Not NEAR as fast as XP would be on my PC, but faster than Vista. I have found it to actually bluescreen more often and in more random places than Vista, which would discourage most people. Fortunately, I had these problems with Vista in its early ages, so I’m fine with it and I’ll just ride it out. (Mostly for the better battery life… My Vista installation gets about 1 hour if that and 7 gets close to 2 hours!)

So here’s my point. People shouldn’t have to “upgrade” their OS unless they want to. People shouldn’t have to go out and get a brand new top of the line PC to run the new OS properly. But I also believe that people shouldn’t be running on an OS that is nearly 8 years old. It’s holding back the rest of the Windows line. Software manufacturers are being stuck trying to make their software XP compatible too. It’s painful for them!

I would say that when 7 comes out… or when the next Windows OS comes out… that everyone on XP should finally give in and upgrade. Get rid of the old, 8-year-old software that hackers have had 8 years to develop workarounds to hack, and join the movement forward. Even if it ends up going back a few steps.

Or, they could take the easy route and get a Mac. Best move I ever made. (Keeps me off the Vista a lot too! lol)

So yeah… Not all that short of a story but it works, right?

Hello Gavin,
Good explanation and suggestions.
Regards, Ron

Love your OS? WTF kind of life is that? 7 is pretty. Vista is buggy. XP just works. Many of the benefits you can get from installing a fresh OS of ANY kind is that it is fresh. A fresh install of XP will run much better than an aged install of XP.

Did you know 7 is likely to cost $250! What kind of nuts is that!? The only way I will buy it is if the double upgrade trick (from Vista) will work to install the upgrade as a fresh install.

Maybe it is becaause people are scared of vista because they heard it is bad. Maybe it is that vista and 7 is too shiny for them. Maybe they count to 7 or spell vista. Vista is harder to spell than xp

Many reasons. I still run batch scripts that I’m not sure will work in Vista. Don’t want to fork up the dough to replace a complete functional OS (that definitely still works for me), I like the GUI and am dissipointed that Vista complete ignored prior precedent by changing where files are stored and such (yes I fix PCs for a trade; was quite irritated when I first had to find this out a year and a half ago, especially since the placeholders would give you errors when you double-clicked on them; lol), takes a huge amount of memory to do the same that XP would do with 512MBytes. The list goes on, but those are my main issues with Vista. Did not participate in the Win7 beta, but hopefully Win7 won’t change where files are stored (keeping it the same as Vista since now that is the apparent norm; no need to go back to the way Win3.1 (well, not everything was the same but most of you get my gist) though XP did it). I heard that it does a better job with resources too; hope that pans out. I do like Vista’s eyecandy, so maybe they should keep it, so long as they can keep the resources acceptable.

Well, I have recently worked on 3 different computers that have Vista and at least 2 of the 3 computers have crashed due to Microsoft updates, or other software updates… I have never heard of such mess. I am still using XP for a million different reasons but the top 3 reasons are:
1. I don’t feel like I need a new computer yet and I have a 2.8 ghz Pentium 4 with 3GB of ram which runs Dreamweaver and Photoshop fine for what I use them for.
2. Since XP has been out so long it seems to be alot less buggy and as a billion other people have said, it has all the working drivers that I need.
3. I have added themes to XP and so it looks just as “nice/cool” as any version of Vista and I don’t care what anyone says about Vista’s speed, you put a XP computer next a Vista computer that has the exact same hardware and Aero and all that other useless crap on Vista still turned on like from the factory and the XP will be faster every time.

I don’t “hate” Vista, but I have definitely grown accustomed to XP like how you said your wife would get mad if you took it away. I wouldn’t necessarily get mad, but I’m gonna miss XP when I do make the switch, haha. I would guess that out of the 61% of the people that still have XP, almost all of them just happen to have purchased a decent computer when they needed one and don’t really care whether they have XP or Vista or any other OS, as long as their programs work.

XP is Microsoft’s best operating system yet. It surpasses all previous Microsoft Operating Systems, and Vista just isn’t that good. I’ve tried it, and I don’t like it. It was very buggy to begin with. I was upset when they first discontinued XP. When they bought it back on the market, I got a new laptop running XP, and she stays with me today (guess what I’m typing on right now?). I have 2 machines in my possession, and 4 in my house. My Laptop and my Desktop are XP. I’m keeping the laptop as is. The desktop is like 6 years old. Its a nice Compaq machine (HP/Compaq is my favorite computer company). I plan on upgrading all of its components (Processor, Hard Drive, Graphics Card, etc) and running 7.

Windows 95 was a classic. I liked that, but its superrare to see it. Windows 98 was an improvement, but not much different. Windows 2000 was phail. XP was a good operating system. Sleek, relatively bug free, and very versatile. Windows Vista was ok for an improvement, but none of my software would be compatible, so it would be utterly useless for me and my intricate hobby (Brickfilming!). Windows 7 would be nice on my Desktop, purely because I don’t want to end up horribly outdated. I heard it’s not much faster than Vista. but still a big improvement.

I proudly love Windows XP.

Windows XP is the best windows operating system.

Vista, is slow and laggy, bad compatability, and a stupid new look.

Windows 7 is faster than vista but the drivers wouldn’t work on some of my items and again, the looks are crap especially the start menu – YUK!

Windows XP is light, looks good; nice and simple, easy to navigate and everyone knows it; meaning the tips and tricks, tweaks etc.

It’d be great if they just give XP and optional upgrade, but keeping XP

I run Windows 7 RC on my main desktop…XP on my PVR and my Asus 10″ Netbook I bought about 4 months ago.

The reason I will ALWAYS run XP on my PVR-PC is that Vista/7 does not like my PVR-150 and will only run this card with only tons of workarounds I don’t need to bother with under XP or any other version of Windows before XP. For that matter…any version of Linux/MythTV works better than Vista/7 for PVR use.

Attempted to run the PVR-150 under MCE-7 and would not even see the card. Dongle problems in GBPVR under Vista/7 still have not be addressed by Hauppauge since before Vista was released. Means it works great for the networks/program providers…but sucks for the users who want the freedom to use their hardware/software as they see fit.

I use all the versions of windows. But I also know why XP seems to reign best.
Vista siphons all the power out of your hardware. It requires too much and can’t give equal performance/stability. And Microsoft must be kidding me when they put out UAC. They are protecting their computers from the person who bought the damn thing. It doesn’t provide protection but just annoys the shit out of people. Sad to say, XP is gonna eventually fall apart. It is too old and will be taken out by Mac or these new “Windows”

I hate Vista. I’m going with Mojave. I hear that people are loving it! LOL.

Seriously, XP is just COMFORTABLE now, and I agree with the guy who said, “People shouldn’t have to “upgrade” their OS unless they want to. ”

Both MS and Vista lovers underestimate the value that most people place on their smooth running XP machines. Many people just want a computer that can help them cross some tasks off of their list, so they can get back to their REAL lives.

ANY– EVEN ONE SINGLE MINUTE of time spent wondering where something went, or why something unexpected is happening, is a complete, utter waste of time and energy. The funny thing is, you won’t find those average computer users posting here, because the average computer user doesn’t read these blogs, doesn’t know how to post, and would not feel it was worth the time if they did.

Its just a colorful box, sitting on a desk, that you sit by when you have to do some tasks that can’t be done any other way. Then you turn it off, you put gas in your bike, you do a donut on the driveway, and ride off into the sunset. (YEEHAAH!)

When it won’t turn on anymore, you buy another one, learn the basic buttons, and if it prompts you something you don’t understand, you click Cancel. If it comes back, or doesn’t work, you call your cousin/mother/uncle who’s in the IT business. You simply DON’T CARE about any of these debates.

Live long Joe Average Computer User !!!

i bleeping hate vista……i still have xp on my other laptop (my sisters former Toshiba laptop) and i love xp i grew up on 95 and 98 never saw M.e then cam xp and i loved it and i still do so screw vista and 7 the graphics are nice but they all suck but xp

In my experience, Vista is just… stupid. Simple as that.

It does the most dumb inexplicable things that should never happen, and doesn’t ever occur on XP. I can’t even describe some of weird things that has happened. Sure, basic internet browsing/email checking/word processing etc. is fine on Vista, but doing anything more on it is an absolute nightmare.

7, fortunately, removes most of the dumb and replaces it with useful functionality that actually works. XP always had it, and of course it isn’t a resource hog. Why would anyone want to use MORE resources for Vista in exchange for the SAME (or even WORSE) level of performance than XP? It’s like paying for extra bricks to build the exact same house: Pointless.

I think this falls into the need it category. People still find merit in XP because it has had plenty of time to mature, and the people using it have had time to familiarize themselves with it. I think Microsoft does do a good job of trying to level the learning curve but compromises must be made. Games are just now starting to see performance benefits from DX10 and features that would have been nicely packed with XP are finally on Vista, the problem is that those very features only serve a very small percentage of people who appreciate them. I am sure that if you mention exFAT of FAT64 to most who are still using XP they would most likely be dumbfounded. The reality is that the vast majority of people are quite content with what the bare minimum affords and cease to see the necessity in change until it is forced upon them through progress, i.e. application, and hardware compatibility. I am sure that if Apple anounced that iTunes was no longer available for XP there would be a great number of switches to Vista.

1. XP is stable. Vista isn’t (yet).
2. Not everything works on Vista. Computing, for those of us who work on them, is not primarily about your OS. It’s about the programs you run on that OS. If the programs that you paid good money for won’t work, or need to be repurchased just because you paid more good money for a new OS with features you hardly use, then it’s a waste of money.
3. If you have a printer or other peripherals that work fine on XP, but they won’t on Vista, that’s another waste of money.

It’s kind of like when LPs went to CDs; they made you buy the album again. If you collect movies, you’re going to have buy them all over again once everything goes to Blu-Ray. Is Blu-Ray better? Sure. And right now, most titles are $20-30, and far from everything is available on Hi-Def. Oh yes – and the players are more expensive, too.
Kinda like Vista that way – “Hey kids – let’s pay for an operating system that forces us to re-buy everything!”

WINDOWS XP ALL THE WAY !

For me, Vista felt like I had room mate on the PC all the time. I put up with it for a little over a year and it was fine and all, but I kept having to right click everything. It didn’t work out of the box. Everything needed fixing to some degree. Sure, XP is the same but it’s mine. I only need to do a few tweaks, and finding drivers is a breeze. Not like Vista x64. Indiana Jones has trouble getting drivers for that PoS!

I just don’t support buy and bin anymore, nor can I afford to given the cliff we’re nudging our planet towards. It’s irresponsible. Besides, ‘if it ain’t broke’!

What has been deadly efficient in keeping me away from Vista is the way it treats you like a retard. “are you sure you want to do this?” “do you know what you’re doing, cus I’m figuring you don’t” “I wouldn’t do that if I was you!”. My computer is my office and i like it to be cozy, my whole work and studies spin around it, and as a student, there’s a series of things I cannot pay for (Biannual Adobe upgrades, 500 dollars graphic cards) which makes my system humble, but which also forces me to keep it reliable. Deadlines are deadlines. Now, Vista is cuter (cozier), no doubt, and as a designer i valor that (I was struggling to stick to my OpenOffice cus it didn’t look cute enough), but being able to make XP look just like Vista, i can’t risk overloading the system with the OS, hell, leave that to the movie editors and the 3D graphic applications! It’s like you wanna go on vacations to France and you spend half of your money on a first class flight!!

Xp is the best OS so far,
why?
Because :
1. easy find driver
2. million nice software running on xp
3. Fast, small (just 1 CD)

why people sugest to upgrade to vista or 7?
Both are sucks, ( i promise that)

idk why other people like vista my sister owns a computer and it constantly crashing cause the operating system is junk she has the very first edition of vista with all the bugs and such ill never upgrade i hate vista and ill never like it its very ugly and gross

Hello Cliff,
Has she given any thought about updating her system to SP2?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a4dd31d5-f907-4406-9012-a5c3199ea2b3&displaylang=en

At the moment, I use XP on a Dell Inspiron 5160. I have had some problems with a particular anti-virus program that was a complete resource hog so I dumped it. Problem solved. I also kept getting the blue screen of death, but when I upgraded the browser to IE7 that irritation went away. I like this particular notebook so I won’t change OS’s until this one bites the dust which probably won’t be for another 4 years, hopefully. I ordered more memory and a new CD/DVD drive, because I can’t listen to music CDs or install any programs at the present time.

I also don’t like to have to upgrade everytime MS comes out with something new. I find it irritating that that many of these improvements usually only benefit their bottom line, and I can’t afford the unnecessary expense. I would also like to see an OS that wasn’t what I consider to be bloatware. Why does the OS have to do everything but brush one’s teeth and flush the toilet? Scheesh.

I have been using computers since the time of punch cards. I had a part-time job at night doing the day’s verification of those punch cards. I took my first computer class at that time and learned the basics of Fortran and assembly. I learned to program in Basic in 1983 when my former father-in-law bought a PC. I didn’t buy one for myself until 1992, because I wanted to learn more about them and I thought it would make my life easier. Not everybody’s grandma just uses computers for email!

Hello MtnWolfGrl,
Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
Regards, Ron

I think what most people forget is that a computer is a tool. No matter how old the tool is the same goes for each. If it still does it’s job well, and works for you; then keep using it. Why change? I think our society needs to get rid of the ideology that old technology is useless. I know plenty (including where I work) of businesses that still use Windows XP. Their computers work just fine; so why bother upgrading? “Ribbon Menus”?, Transperancy? Getting to do a task with 1 less mouse click? Boy, those index fingers get very exhausted doing 2 clicks to search for a file/program. (sarcasim).
I get upset when I think of the resources that newer versions of Windows take when they do the SAME EXACT thing as older versions….just in a prettier way. Believe it or not, you can still (yes you) use Windows 95 to do most of your daily computing tasks such as surfing the web, E-mail, listening and viewing multimedia (yes Windows 95 supports flash–just a few days ago on my old computer I was surfing Youtube), Faxing, Research, Word Processing/Publishing (MS Office, Publisher) you get the idea. Of course you wouldn’t use Windows 95 for video editing, USB intensive tasks (of course, did you know that Windows 95 B supported USB? and yes, I can connect my Scanner and Digital camera to it), Hard Core Gaming, etc.
A computer that is 8 years old today is different than what a computer was in 1995 and eight years old from 1995; get my drift. Example: A new computer in 1995 could do the above tasks I said Windows 95 could do (except USB that was invented in 1996-97); however, a computer that was 8 years old back in 1995 was made in 1987. Compare an Apple IIgs (5 1/4 floppy, 8 colors max on screen etc), or even an IBM running MS-DOS 4 etc. You get the picture (i hope).
The point is, old technology is still very usefull and should not be treated as waste. It breaks my heart to see good computers in someone’s garbage while I drive down the road when it’s only a few years old. Even a computer that is 15 years old today still does MANY MANY tasks that a new computer can do. I should know, my Gateway 2000 Pentium 75Mhz speaks for itself! So those who judge and say: “Just upgrade there is no excuse for running 8 year old software”. YOU have no excuse for your ignorance of fine technology.

Hello Gregory,
Great points. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and opinions with us. It is interesting because XP still does it job, yet many of us want the latest and greatest.

Regards, Ron

I just bought a new Acer Laptop, and it came with Windows 7 pre-installed. I also have a desktop comeputer that still has XP on it. In my opinion I do love my new Windows 7, but how long my XP has lasted since it was first released really does surprise me. So, in conclusion, I love Windows 7 way more than my XP. But, my XP is still hanging in there, and in very good condition.

-Dylan

Well for one thing many people cannot afford to spend almost $300 on something that may or may not work on their computer. Second, many can’t afford a new computer. Also, many people have so much crap on their computers they also cannot afford to loose it nor do they have the capacity to save it all somewhere so they can upgrade. Plus, for the older set, no one wants to re-learn how to use everything. I will switch to Windows 7 when I get a new computer. Period. Also, I used Vista and from what I hear 7 is only a bit different. What pissed me off most about Windows Vista is being asked a thousand times “are you sure?” every time you want to click or do anything. WTF is that about anyway???

Vista really pisses me off and a lot of other people too so that’s why I still use Windows XP. It hasn’t given me any of the problems that Vista has been giving me ever since I tested it. On the same computer that I tested Vista, I tested Windows 7 and not only did it not lag, it was fast and without the bullshit that User Account Control was giving me back in Windows Vista. SP1 didn’t do anything but make the operating system slightly more stable, but it’s better to start off with a good OS than use a patched OS that simply does what your old one did maybe with a little bit of additional graphic effects. The testing computer I refer to is from 2005: 3 GHZ P-IV CPU, 2.5 GB RAM, 200 GB HDD and a decent graphics card . So not only is Windows 7 worth the money, it does what Windows Vista fell short in. Also, did you all not realize that Windows Vista was an interim release planned by Microsoft for the planned release of Windows 7 (it probably would’ve had another name if it was released earlier). It was because Windows XP had such a long life already in 2006 when they released Vista, that they’re sales were becoming lower due to lowered demand (everyone already had Windows XP). That is the reason Windows Vista got released. It was a rushed, unstable money-making OS. So try not to complain, if you were smart you would still stay with XP until the day that the next Version of Windows came out (we did not know the name of said windows release back then, and I was still skeptical in Dec./’08 when Windows 7 Build 6801 was leaked onto the internet, that in actuality the name would become Windows 7). I told myself from the day I tried Vista to avoid installing and using it at costs. After all, Windows XP did a better job at doing what I needed it to do and it was something I already paid for.

Windows Seven is the best OS !!!

Please keep an open mind, as I feel the need for some sarcasm: Seems like those that still use Windows XP, are the sort of folks that despise changing anything – their motto is (like previously mentioned) “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” They say, with anger, to themselves and others things like “Damn, why did they change the location of that button?” or “They moved everything, so now I can’t find it and I’ll have to learn everything all over again.” or “Why did they have to change everything? I was an expert at XP, but now I’m just another newbie.” Those that have spent a long time learning something and rest on their laurels are always horrified at the release of a new (or changed) technology. Specifically, those technologies that threaten their expertise. Instead, unless their brains are full, they should be overjoyed with the opportunity to learn or even participate in developing something new. Incidentally, most of these people also share another trait; They pride themselves as being cheap, penny pinchers. They hesitate to even buy new clothes, and probably wear the same thing they did twenty years ago. Same hairstyle, car, dog, diet, house, spouse, and La-Z-Boy. It worked back then, why change? “Why change anything? Just leave everything as it is, because that’s what I know, and I don’t want to learn or exploit anything new because it would expose my lack of adventure, adaptiveness, creativity and vision.” I’m relieved that not everyone in the world thinks like they do. For if everyone did, nothing would ever change or improve — it would just stay the same.

MaxSeven,
Good points.

Run’s on 128mb minimum. Enough said.

I agree MaxSeven.
I have a laptop running Windows 7 and a netbook running XP. I would really like to upgrade my netbook to Windows 7 as well, but I don’t really want to spend the money, because i’ll probably replace the netbook soon. But as for which I prefer, Windows 7 hands down. Vista acquired a stigma during its release due mostly to incompatibility. Those complaints have totally disappeared in Windows 7. I have never had a newly released program that didn’t run on Vista or Windows 7. As for speed Windows 7 feels as fast as XP and you get the benefit of new features. If someone wants to know why they should upgrade here’s some of the things I like about Windows 7 that are not present in XP.

Snap windows: You can now drag windows to the sides and top of the desktop and have them auto size. When I first saw this feature I thought it sounded dumb, when am I going to use that? I thought. After using Windows 7 I find myself using this every day, If i’m moving files or I want to maximize a window quickly I use this.

Search: People still using XP have never gotten a chance to use the much improved search function. You’re talking 1-3 seconds to find your files and programs, not the minutes it takes in XP, The search bar is in the start menu as well so it works much better. You’ll find your self using this all the time.

Windows 7 also makes networking and settings easier to manage.

So unless you’re a cheapskate like MaxSeven mentioned, then you should definitely get Windows 7.