Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 11th Aug 2009 10:26 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
Windows Technologizer has an interesting article about why Windows Vista failed, and it provides 16 reasons why this is the case. A few of those reasons reveal a certain lack of understanding, but a more pressing issue is that while listing these reasons individually is interesting, Vista's failure in the marketplace can be explained in a much more compact fashion.
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Vista SP2 is pretty grown up
by joshv on Tue 11th Aug 2009 14:01 UTC
joshv
Member since:
2006-03-18

Granted, I've thrown 12 GB at it, but Vista SP2 x64 is rock solid, blazingly fast and highly usable. Not sure if I really need the extra eye-candy in Windows 7 quite yet.

RE: Vista SP2 is pretty grown up
by zlynx on Tue 11th Aug 2009 23:19 in reply to "Vista SP2 is pretty grown up"
zlynx Member since:
2005-07-20

I agree. I run them both on the same hardware: Vista SP2 and Win7. I don't see any speed difference.

Hardware is an Intel I7 with 6 GB RAM. It runs anything fast.

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joshv Member since:
2006-03-18

I do have to say, that with the stuff I do, I found Vista on my previous 4GB machine to be sometimes subject to extreme bouts of disk thrashing. But XP did the same thing under similar workloads. But x64 and 12GB of RAM have solved all my problems.

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