Quote Originally Posted by Dredd View Post
I think you missed the millions of gamers who refused to use XP cause it was slower

Seriously there was thousands of posts all over the web about how XP sucks, it's slow, it has bad drivers etc. Now look at it...everyone thinks XP is god's gift to the PC. Well guess what? Vista will be the same way. You may not adopt it early, but soon enough (sooner than it was with XP over Win98) it will become necessary.

Vista has it's problems but to be honest, I find less problems with Vista now than I find with XP after all the service packs and hotfixes it had. Xp gives me more headaches than Vista ever does. Plus I can actually use 4GB in Vista while still remaining compatable with all my software. Xp x64 could never do that.
i seem to remember about the gaming issue between XP and Win98...but they worked that out and everyone made the transition over...vista is totally a different bread where the kernel can no longer be impacted by drivers...i presume this is why video drivers and games are going to be a long time adjusting to the vista code...this is going to be a bigger jump than XP.

AND...when Intel weighs in and says we are not transitioning until at least SP1 arrives on scene...and...the Olympics is going to rely on XP SP2 instead of letting vista screw the pooch!

i jumped to XP right away and i loved it over Win98 and ME...vista is hard to love!...to many idiosyncrasies!...i am going to take my time making the transition...XP STILL works!...IMO, an excellent OS.