Should You Upgrade from Vista to XP SP3?
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 27.12.2007
Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversWindows Vista was released to manufacturing and to businesses in November 2006, and the operating system hit the shelves only at the end of January 2007.
Launched with a fatuous $500 million worldwide marketing campaign under the slogan "the Wow starts now", Vista managed to miss the Wow by a long shot. In fact, not only did the majority of Windows users not adopt the rather limp Wow on the spot, but they also turned around to Windows XP and are now failing to let go. And with Microsoft having made available the public Release Candidates of both Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3, the question emerged whether or not the third and final service pack for XP is the true upgrade for Vista.
Microsoft's position is, of course, to wait for the RTM versions of Vista SP1 and XP SP3 before making up your mind. Of course that, more or less subliminally, the Redmond company has delivered strong signs that Vista is here to stay and ignoring it is a move equivalent to ignoring the inevitable. The option of Windows 7 lingers on a distant horizon, but the successor of Windows Vista is still at least a couple of years away, and this will mean ridding XP for all that it's got until 2010. This is if Microsoft will make good on its promise to offer Windows 7 in mid 2010.
"Customers can take advantage of all that Windows Vista has to offer by evaluating and deploying the operating system now. They do not need to wait for Windows Vista SP1, which includes updates already released through Windows Update. Windows Vista enables higher levels of productivity and mobility than earlier versions of Windows, and it helps lower the cost of ownership. Customers currently evaluating and deploying Windows Vista should continue their evaluation, pilot programs, and deployment on the RTM version of Windows Vista. Microsoft provides the tools and guidance customers need to deploy Windows Vista today and will provide additional guidance, tools, and support for moving to Windows Vista SP1 when Microsoft releases it", the Redmond company revealed.
Of course that some end users fail to play to the same tune as Microsoft. This is why, Windows XP SP3 comes to represent a much more appetizing perspective than Vista SP1. With XP SP3 due in early 2008, probably alongside Vista SP1, Microsoft will only manage to make sticking with XP an easier choice for the end users that have been disappointed with Vista RTM. At the same time, it is clear that Vista will get a second shot with the introduction of SP1, and one that will accelerate adoption, even with XP SP3. It is interesting to see the reaction of the corporate environment, which will be forced into a migration, whether it will be to XP SP3 or to Vista SP1. It remains to be seen if having to update the Windows infrastructure one way or another will swing corporations toward Vista.
But as far as the Redmond company is concerned, there is simply no alternative to Vista SP1. "Customers just starting to evaluate Windows Vista should plan a pilot program based on the original release and then move to a pilot or deployment when Windows Vista SP1 becomes available. Customers planning to wait for Windows Vista SP1 before deploying Windows Vista can start compatibility testing on the RTM release of Windows Vista now, and then begin their evaluation and pilot programs on the release candidate of Windows Vista SP1 when it becomes available", Microsoft added.
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just to say to microsoft coders that if you want the next os to really be embraced by the
general population, make it open source, give it away, make it that it is fast and light
on resources, and no drm, no call home no secret spying
thx you can make your
money with other things
not a bad idea , make the os open source and free and earn the money from all the other
apps running on the os.
who will propose this to bill ?
i installed xp sp3 and it killed my sp2 activation crack, when i re-installed the crack
it said failed cos winlogon.exe is encrypt. please help as i now have 26 days to activate
:( :( :( :( :(
people dont learn...wait till other people have peoblems before you try things, unless
you are a hacker.
just reinstall your os
buy it...
antiwpa.dll method still works
there already is an os like that...it's called linux! microsoft will never go this way
as it is a business and bill gates is a business man and although i don't like some of
their stuff it's hard to deny he runs one hell of a business
found an xp keygen, just type your xp generated key into this and it will create a valid
activation key.
http://tnet.no/bin/xpkeygen.zip
i think the wow starts now should be changed in keznews to wow...another shot at vista.
i wonder how much the writers of these articles get paid per word to talk s***
about vista, and how many of them are on apple's payroll...
if vista was really good, there would not be any of these articles.
sorry but
that's the truth
there are 2 things funny about peoples' reactions to vista. (1) people are more willing
to overlook or ignore the shortcomings of vista's competitors: leopard and linux. (2)
before vista came out, xp had a really bad rep for being full of security holes. all of a
sudden, with vista's emergence, xp is being hailed as a solid platform. give me a break!
the only reason why microsoft is keeping xp alive is cuz people are resistant to change,
not cuz it's better.
case in point: leopard is as old now as vista was in
february/march. it's about as unstable as vista used to be, yet all the mac boys are
praising it for having refined a lot of vista's features, which have been around for a
few months longer. pretty good excuse for apple to push leopard's release back and use
the extra time to "borrow" features from vista, then use the iphone's release as an
excuse (to an extent).
as for me, i dual boot xp and vista on one computer, and
run red hat on another.
wow, i love the word used in the title, upgrade to xp sp3 from vista, that is awesome. i
think it is also a major upgrade as well from vista to xp sp3, not a downgrade
this site should be called kezxp
above article: quote: "customers can take advantage of all that windows vista has to
offer … windows vista enables higher levels of productivity and mobility than earlier
versions of windows, and it helps lower the cost of ownership. unquote. ok, what can
vista do that xp can’t do quicker and efficiently? i trried it and it is dog slow on even
the newest hardware. the features of vista are simply not worth the extra cpu threads and
extra ram needed to run the hog. its pure rubbish. why should i spend the money
upgrading 100 xp pro pcs at my business to vista? to run vista i would have to upgrade my
existing hardware and software. my pcs run xp just fine. i see no advantage to vista,
except to make bill gates even more richer. and so many versions.
i actually upgraded from vista to linux. thats how bad it is. now i have vista 64x on
here though, and trust me, its fast.
can anyone get vista to play music at same time your on mic? and be able to adjust your
sound levels?
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