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jstern |
Omg, I could never go back to XP after 1 year of using Vista. I wonder why so many people hate it.
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matic |
People should face reality, operating systems come and go, bringing new features and fading away without regrets. Say goodbye to Windows XP, say hello to Ubuntu.
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herothezero |
#23, Reasons why Vista is disliked? Here are some possible ones...
Dude, it was a rhetorical question--my point is that people want whatever new OS comes out to be just like XP. Hell, stupid people are saying, "I'm waiting for Windows 7," foolishly not realizing that W7 is based on Vista, not XP. And while I'm hardly an M$ apologist, your reasons for Vista being unpopular are suspect. Enthusiasts might upgrade, but consumers don't upgrade--they just change out boxes with a preloaded OS. That's why consumer adoption of Vista has been much higher than that of corporate customers, which tend to change out systems on 3-5 year rotations. The driver issue for Vista was real, but there wasn't anything M$ could do about that. The situation is much improved. Here's another news flash; except for the OSS crusaders at /., no one cares about Linux on the desktop...still. That's not changed since forever. As for M$'s relationship with businesses, you're deluding yourself if you think corporate IT folks are considering dumping M$ en masse. |
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Majiir Paktu |
I have profound feelings of "this is horseshit" about retiring operating systems. Remove them from OEMs, sure--but altogether is just douchebag marketing. If it could only be purchased in a retail box, who would buy it... a few enthusiasts. Wow, big market segment. Good job, Microsoft.
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herothezero |
Once you get rid of the pretty curtains, vista is almost identical to XP.
Dude, this is so incredibly wrong at so many levels, I can't even begin to correct such fallacious conventional wisdom. Besides, if it's no different than XP, why is it so bad? |
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AbRASiON |
Vista is vile putrid filth to some hardcore XP users.
I loathe it, absoloutely loathe it. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=585683&cid=23818079 http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=364823&cid=21406737 |
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aleckermit |
I hope Bill can support himself without a job...
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StashTheVampede |
Why are there so many staunch users that still want XP? I'm not saying that Vista is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but users can *still* run XP on their current machines, right?
Imagine if "users" pressured Microsoft to keep Windows ME around. |
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MarioJP |
I have vista 64 oem with a custom built rig. At first i was going to leave it with dualboot with xp and vista just in case. But realizing that everything i had on my xp works fine with vista and i have no intention of keeping xp anymore. So this won't affect me at all. Sides I have 8gb of ram and 32 bit os like xp wont see all my ram. XP64 its too late. So i made the switch to vista64 instead. And no problems here like what you guys are saying
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evermore |
users will be able to order systems "factory downgraded" to XP, and they'll also get Vista licenses out of the deal
That makes it sound like they can install that Vista license on another machine, or as a dual-boot. That is not allowed, the Vista license can't be used if you've used the option to downgrade - the XP license replaces the Vista license as far as EULA terms are concerned. You could wipe XP later on and install Vista, which may be what was meant above, but of course you can only (per EULA) install it on exactly the same machine. |
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ssidbroadcast |
Wow, up is down in the new millenium.
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