Linked by David Adams on Wed 23rd Apr 2008 17:23 UTC
Hot on the heels of our previous story outlining the fiasco that Vista's release has been, TechRepublic's Jason Hiner predicts that Microsoft is aware of its blunder and will respond by making a release of Windows 7 ahead of schedule (primarily by overhauling Vista and calling it Windows 7, it seems) in order to encourage its enterprise clients to upgrade directly from XP to Windows 7.
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RE: 1st window I will not use
by raver31 on Wed 23rd Apr 2008 18:27
in reply to "1st window I will not use"
Member since:2005-07-06
- Way too slow, memory hog, too much background services
- WGA crap, call home build in, I don't like being monitored
- Activation & reactivation are plain bullshit
Some people may say that about XP too..
The first point can also be applied to other systems, like Ubuntu for example.
It is swings and roundabouts, but my experiences with Vista was enough for me to remove all Microsoft products from all my machines.
I have shares in the company, but I seriously do not like the way they are moving.
RE[2]: 1st window I will not use
by mallard on Thu 24th Apr 2008 09:05
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Member since:2006-01-06
- Way too slow, memory hog, too much background services
The first point can also be applied to other systems, like Ubuntu for example.
The first point can also be applied to other systems, like Ubuntu for example.
Huh? From my (fairly extensive) use of Ubuntu, I rarely see it top 512MB RAM usage (usually in the 350-400MB range - this is with no swap usage), compared to Vista, which can barely boot in that (and has to use a significant amount of swap/pagefile), on my system (3.5GB RAM) it uses about 1GB idling.
As for speed, (X)Ubuntu runs acceptably on my old P-II 400Mhz laptop, I'd like to see someone try to run Vista on something that old.
With background services, both OS's use them extensively, but I've never had one cause problems on Ubuntu, whereas on Vista I regularly experience slowdowns caused by background services (usually TrustedInstaller).
So how does "Way too slow, memory hog, too much background services" apply to Ubuntu again?
RE: 1st window I will not use
by MaxKlokan on Thu 24th Apr 2008 13:03
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Member since:2007-12-04
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2006-07-19
For me, I see thoses reasons not to adopt vista at all:
- Way too slow, memory hog, too much background services
- WGA crap, call home build in, I don't like being monitored
- Activation & reactivation are plain bullshit
- compatibility problems
- can't slipstream services pack with out thrid party tools
I'll keep xp until it really die and install Linux as dual boot option.