Microsoft: Windows XP Is Obsolete, Move to Vista Now!
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversIs Windows Vista really superior to all predecessor Windows operating systems? Well Microsoft is beating the old drum of Vista as the most secure Windows platform available since the introduction of the operating system.
But while end users would be inclined to choose another version of Windows as the top dog when it comes down to reliability, performance, driver compatibility and application support, Microsoft can only point to Windows Vista. And in the wake of announcements concerning the availability and contents of the first service pack for the operating system, Microsoft is pouring a consistent amount of efforts into convincing users, be them in the home or the corporate environments, to upgrade/migrate to Vista as soon as possible.
"When it comes to deploying a new OS (whether at the Data Centers or for the end users consumption) the IT Pros tend to take a more cautious 'wait and see approach'. So the question begs, why should the new operating system from the software giant get any better treatment, is Windows Vista any better than its predecessors such as Windows 95, NT, 98, 2000, XP, in simple words the answer is a bold and resounding "HELL YEAH!!!" Migrations to the Windows Vista is inevitable for the enterprise across the globe, delaying the planning and testing the OS in limited manner would only cause substantial issues in the future and could also lead to user dissatisfaction," stated Omer Qureshi, Microsoft Technology Development Manager.
Well, if the "Wow" did not sell you, than "HELL YEAH!!!" will surely move you in the right direction. And to Vista of course. The Wow was good, but just a tad Sotto Voce and a little limp. "HELL YEAH!!!" is a different approach altogether. Can you imagine if Microsoft had gone with the "HELL YEAH!!!" $500 million marketing campaign? With a slogan such as "Windows Vista "HELL YEAH!!!"" That would have definitely sold well in excess of 60 million copies of Vista in the first six months of availability.
But "HELL YEAH!!!" can also fail. The potential of a failure is less monumental than that of the Wow, but... However, fear not, Qureshi has a back up solution. If a positive marketing campaign will not pursue users to move to Vista, Microsoft will scare you into upgrading. "Imagine that in 2008 and if you are running/supporting ancient OS like Windows 2000 (launched 8+ years ago) or XP (7+ years ago), OEMs and device manufacturers and ISVs or software vendors would continue to limit their support for these older OS and at the same time you would be missing out on all the great features and cost savings that Windows Vista has to offer," Qureshi added.
Relax... Breath in... Breath out... You are in your safe place. Now imagine that you are running Windows XP! Scared yet?
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Comments(27)
is not superior, vista was atacked by an old virus!!!!!!!!! vista is only a myth
i will move to vista when all my games and apps will work, plus fix the bugs microsoft!
i say 2 more years of xp , and then vista sp2 will work fine... then ms will tell me
to move to the next buggy os they will created....
tried and tested, result vista once you got over the pretty graphics is one heap of
bloat, bugs and problems, a waste of time and money. xp, stable,fast and reliable,over
the years all problems ironed out, why change it can do every thing that vista can.
move to linux and you won;t have to deal with any of this.
well i love vista and will only keep xp on virtual machine for old programs. vista rules
ok!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
vista is only about drm, for mpaa and riaa monopolies. everyone buying a computer didn't
install vista, it came pre-loaded. obviously because that's the only way to sell vista.
love is an emotion, but rarely the facts of reality. vista is full of bugs,
errors and mistakes. even a 13 year old virus is allowed to crash vista. and you vista
lovers want to call that better?
everyone is avoiding vista, waiting for sp1,
hoping that will repair it. vista is the most expensive os ever!
and what new
features and functions did you get for loving vista? lockout, lock you in, and lots of
drm, with validation, wga and activation. who can honestly say, that is something anyone
would cherish, but microsoft?
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feminine version fangirl may be used for females) who is utterly devoted to a single
fannish subject, or to a single point of view within that subject, often to the point
where it is considered an obsession. fanboys remain loyal to their particular obsession,
disregarding any factors that differ from their point of view. fanboys are also
stereotypically aggressive and hateful towards the opposing brand or competition of their
obsession regardless of its merits or achievements.
what does vista offer?
1) missing hardware drivers...
2) missing
software...
3) every waiting for sp1
4) nobody wants drm
5) too expensive
6) annoying wga, validation and activation
7) vista runs slower than xp
8)
when do we get our refunds for not accepting the eula that vista comes pre-installed?
9) to many vista computers at stores broken even before you buy...
10)
boycott microsoft and install free linux and support gpl3 open source software...
microsoft only wants to make their promise selling you windows xp obsolete, so that will
force you to buy vista.
ask yourself why should micorosoft whom sold you
windows xp usage now get away with providing no support and service?
think of
it like this, by the time you invest all your time, your effort in creating content, your
applications become obsolete, and what happens then to your content?
microsoft
wants to deny access to older formats, claiming not secure. do you have the file format
converter?
once microsoft goes belly up, all them patents prevent anyone else
from offering you a method to access you data legally.
and if adobe was to buy
microsoft, they get to determine how you would access you old content for taking over
these endless never ending patents...
by the time your children grow up, all
yor old hard work creating content, will be unknown and often unaccessible if microsoft
gets it way to always replace your software.
why not just fix what is wrong,
instead of replacing with another operating system that starts all over again?
every month vista is getting new patches, hot fixes and as noted a service pack of many
corrections...
so pay for patches whcih you dod for xp, but you get ripped off
to replace all them patches you got now to use yet another buggy system getting no less
the same treatment of more patches again...
all the time paying to dump your
investment each time...
95, 98, me, 2000, xp and now vista...
linux
doesn't do this crap, you get to improve, not replace... and unlike vista, linux doesn't
cost you the sky...it's free..
so are you so afraid to be free?
how can anyone love being a slave? unless the few slaves don't pay anything anyhow for
pirating their vista copies in truth.
if anyone paid 499 you wouldn't be in
love...
i purchased a lenovo machine recently and paid $30 more for xp pro, and let me tell you,
it's well worth it. i installed the "black theme" and it looks just like vista without
all the headaches of wondering if the program i install next is vista compatible..
a windows release has never lived up to ms promises & vistas no different. don't be a
fool, upgrade only when you're forced to.
obviously neither of you who say that vista crap, has used it, i got 2 computer with it
1- a old dell, 1gram, pentium 2.4 run vista as hell, no problem with anything,
every driver work perfectly.
2- custom with amd 64 x2 2.6, 2g ram and
everything is perfect, as expected
i very doubt your erroneous claims that vista is fast... even if it is still usable on
that machine, xp would be at least 30% faster, and that is the truth!
windows xp is an old os released in 2001.
windows vista is a new os released in
2007.
7 years are a big step in computer science.
i have a 5 years old pc with 768mb ram and it's able to run windows vista perfectly (i
just upgraded the graphics card with a dx9 one):
- vista startup is faster than xp
- vista's desktop loading is faster than xp. better responsive, fast to be ready.
- applications runs faster than xp.
- vista's memory managment is excellent.
- vista's user interface is smoother than xp. free glich redraw, because it's fully
rendered by gpu.
- vista's i/o prioritation allows background applications to
read/write on disk without interferere with foreground applications.
- all
applications i used on xp are still working on vista.
- security in windows vista is
huge improved. finally all users are able to run with the least privileges and elevate
themselft when they needed. i love uac.
you vista haters are saying the exact same thing that the xp haters said 6 years ago.
the more things change, the more they stay the same.
well i love windows xp, i have used vista and i have done microsoft exam in admin and
configuring windows vista and o passed.
however i think xp will run more faster and
it is more efficient.
i prefer speed on graphics and fancy stuff
vista isn't new, remember the 13 year old virus can crash vista. remember how the same
bugs in xp also are included in vista.
vista was just xp with drm added and a
reworking of the gui (the interface) that copies apple.
there is no real
innovation, and everyone who keeps saying they love vista, are just microsoft employees
because they never give the facts, they never want to tell you vista cost the most of all
versions, and it does have many problems, such as a lack of hardware drivers which these
vista lovers only talk about their own experiences and not the majority of vista bad
experiences.
anyone can clearly see when such propaganda like "i love vista"
and then they always tell you, i have the best and fastest computer money can buy types
are needed to just say it works.
here's a question, what software do you use
on vista, since your only talking about installing vista!
the rest of us end
users actually use our computers, be for games, for virtual machines, data processing, and
of course surfing the internet, email and so forth.
there is nothing but
additional cost to replace, not upgrade to vista about...
windows vista is riddled with problems and gives users and businesses no reason to buy a
new pc, according to a report in the financial times deutschland quoting acer president
gianfranco lanci.
here is why....digital restrictions management is focused largely in consumer devices,
and everyone, including large companies, is becoming increasingly worried about the
effects of drm thanks to recent developments like the release of microsoft's windows
vista
and...
instead of bashing xp users, why doesn't vista lovers
provide facts we all can accept instead of telling the majority to spend more money to do
what?
what does vista do that xp cannot?
even before vista was sold
xp already had third party solutions such as to backup the operating system using acronis
true image. which does a hell of a better job than vista does today.
acronis
even offer a feature called universal restore, allowing your backup operating system to be
restore on a brand new pc with different hardware. try doing that with vista!
xp also has a 64 bit version, which blows vista right out of the water for speed. only 64
bit drivers still are not common for all hardware, especially including for vista 64 bit.
and we all know most of these vista lovers are not using 64 bit. so you buy a
very expensive computer, that offers 64 bit processing, to run 32 bit applications and you
want to tell everyone how much faster vista is?
that's so full of deception,
as 32 bit applications don't run faster on 64 bit. you got to have 64 bit applications to
do that...
and then there is hyper threading, which again less than 1 percent
of the software applications being sold are programmed to make use of multiple cpu
cores...
in fact, microsoft is terrible at this and has never taken advantage
of multiple core technologies like amd is doing now.
i am sure in 2 years
everyone will dump vista, and switch over to newer operating system like from ibm ahead,
or linux that will offer better features and computing power that does take advantage of
multiple core technologies.
vista is already obsolete...
i also understand that vista will have improved tcp/ip networking. it's nice to know
that they've finally done something with that open-source bsd code that's the basis of
their tcp/ip network protocol.
but get this...
ipsec works fine for
vpns (virtual private networks). but, as john pescatore, an analyst at gartner inc., said
about this scheme, "once you try to encrypt internal communications, your network
architecture breaks." he's got that right.
don't forget, vista doesn't use
ecc ram memory, but you want to use encryption? imagine even one bit changed, knowing how
that effect your data to be decrypted....
food for thought...
superfetch and the like are not as good as the real ram memory. it's just a bandaid for
those that don't have enough ram memory. is that real performance anyone would choose?
and yes, i remember how vista claiming to be all new didn't even manage to
defend itself from old (windows metafile) hole...
even firefox came to the
rescue before microsoft even decided release a patch for their internet browser security
hole.
you don't need vista to use ie7, and why bother when firefox 2.0.0.7 is
way faster and better than ie7?
microsoft has an unproven track record in
providing security software, while at worst microsoft itself is seen as the very cause of
the security problems in windows.
and last...
vista is obsolete
because the moment your activation, validation and windows genuine advantage fails, you
are locked out...
is it any wonder why xp volume license versions rock? no
worry about changing hardware... no worry about spending all bloody day over the telephone
begging to activate your paid for rented version.
xp will continue to live even
despite being abandoned by microsoft.
vista's content protection requires that devices (hardware and software drivers) set
so-called "tilt bits" if they detect anything unusual. for example if there are unusual
voltage fluctuations, maybe some jitter on bus signals, a slightly funny return code from
a function call, a device register that doesn't contain quite the value that was
expected, or anything similar, a tilt bit gets set. such occurrences aren't too uncommon
in a typical computer
for example starting up or plugging in a bus-powered device
may cause a small glitch in power supply voltages, or drivers may not quite manage device
state as precisely as they think). previously this was no problem - the system was
designed with a bit of resilience, and things will function as normal. in other words
small variances in performance are a normal part of system functioning. furthermore, the
degree of variance can differ widely across systems, with some handling large changes in
system parameters and others only small ones. one very obvious way to observe this is
what happens when a bunch of pcs get hit by a momentary power outage. effects will vary
from powering down, to various types of crash, to nothing at all, all triggered by exactly
the same external event.
with the introduction of tilt bits, all of this
designed-in resilience is gone. every little (normally unnoticeable) glitch is suddenly
surfaced because it could be a sign of a hack attack. the effect that this will have on
system reliability should require no further explanation.
vista is crap its takes up to much hdd space and nothing works for it
drivers are one of the biggeswt issues facing vista at this point.
there is no
reason why a user cannot use a dx8 graphics card with the os, i cannot understand the
ommitance of older directx api's, and my tv card still has no compatible drivers for the
os.
if vista is the best thing, how come i still get a bsod when i run my tv
card using xp drivers... my guess is if they had such a great os, that would just work
it's so hard to find vista lovers that i believe, the ones found are microsoft related
and are just promoting their product to get money.
not to mention the "vista ultimate scam". so many people got scammed with the extras
that never were released and there's no light on the horizon regarding this. these people
spent hundreds of additional dolars just to be decieved...
i don't consider myself a vista hater, in fact i used it for 5 months until i gave up.
what's the use of an operating system that does not run the programs that get my job
done. for me vista is a useless os.
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