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Originally Posted by LakeCleElum
I have an idea on how they can save a lot of money. Bring back XP and layoff all the idiots that brought us Vista???
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No comments on Vista, but I will say one thing. I have a laptop in my office and it is pretty old, maybe 3 and half years. It ran XP pretty well, definitley did everything I needed. FWIW, all of my home machines were still XP at this point.
I installed Vista on that laptop when the betas first released and upgraded the builds over time, but after a year or so, decided to retire it since it just ran too painfully slowly. I bought a high powered 64 bit laptop with 4GB of RAM and really liked Vista. The feature sets were great once you go it running on proper hardware.
Being a good corporate citizen, I installed Windows 7 three weeks ago on the high powered laptop and it was
noticably faster. I really liked it and things seemed easier and faster all around.
Back to the old XP laptop - I figured if Windows 7 ran so well on the new laptop, I might as well try installing it on the old laptop, just to see. All of the buzz I have been hearing on Win 7 is that it is designed to run at the same performance level as XP on XP spec hardware - here was my chance to find out if it was crap or not.
Well, after an install that took less than an hour, including installing Office(!), hell has frozen over.
The old laptop runs faster than it did on XP, looks prettier than Vista and is as easy to use my iBook. Seriously. I can't even beleive I am writing this. My Linux and Mac developer friends, who hate Microsoft, invariably think Win 7 is amazing. Having been through a lot of OS releases at Microsoft in 10 years, I've seen it all - I worked on XP, Server 2003, Vista and Server 2008 (but not Win 7). Impressed is an understatement.
Everyone pining for XP just needs to hang tight. You couldn't pay me to use XP now that I have Win 7.