Keep in mind that the upgrade to XP was an easy choice, given that most users were running Win98 rigs ... so yea, that was a no brainer !! Any user/IT person/small business was pleased as punch to get rid of the horrendous 98 OS, where one hung application took down the entire OS !!!
Even the large brands such as Dell and Gateway knew it would be better, even with the early adapter's various problems getting drivers for older hardware that had no XP drivers.
90% of home users were not using Windows 2000, released before XP and just as stable as XP, altho it lacked some of the features that made it into XP eventually, such as the firewall.
So the upgrade to Vista, which has very little in terms of new features, is not anywhere near as important as it was from 98 to XP. If Vista had offered as much stability improvement to the kernel and additional features that XP lacked, we would be bugging every gamer on this forum to upgrade to it to resolve the issues, but so far there is no compelling argument to make for Vista.
So, in a nutshell, people have decided that XP was satisfactory in its purpose ... run my software without crashing frequently, and protect me from internet hacks, and I'm happy. Vista cannot, on the surface, offer more than that, even if its performance was better than XP (it is not).
What blows my mind is that people seem to think a newer OS will be faster than the old one ... W.. T ... F ... ???? So if I was running a vintage Win98 box (P3/733, 256 RAM) and I loaded XP on that, do you REALLY think gaming would be faster in XP ?
So regardless of whether you plan on upgrading to Vista somewhere down the line, or you wait until the arrival of MS next OS (only 2 years away, woohoo !!) you simply cannot force Microsoft to abandon their current OS and support XP (its now 6+ years since its intro) for longer than they really want to. SP3 is the beginning of the end ... enjoy it while it lasts.
PS - I ran Win2000 on ALL of my boxes until 2005, so don't think I am an MS or even an XP fan. I hated the move to XP, because it was forced by MS just to play a damn game - Dungeon Siege II. I also resisted the move to play my games in Win95 ... I still own Warcraft II for DOS !!! MAKE A BOOT FLOPPY, you lazy Win95 gamers !!!
Ughh, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Even the large brands such as Dell and Gateway knew it would be better, even with the early adapter's various problems getting drivers for older hardware that had no XP drivers.
90% of home users were not using Windows 2000, released before XP and just as stable as XP, altho it lacked some of the features that made it into XP eventually, such as the firewall.
So the upgrade to Vista, which has very little in terms of new features, is not anywhere near as important as it was from 98 to XP. If Vista had offered as much stability improvement to the kernel and additional features that XP lacked, we would be bugging every gamer on this forum to upgrade to it to resolve the issues, but so far there is no compelling argument to make for Vista.
So, in a nutshell, people have decided that XP was satisfactory in its purpose ... run my software without crashing frequently, and protect me from internet hacks, and I'm happy. Vista cannot, on the surface, offer more than that, even if its performance was better than XP (it is not).
What blows my mind is that people seem to think a newer OS will be faster than the old one ... W.. T ... F ... ???? So if I was running a vintage Win98 box (P3/733, 256 RAM) and I loaded XP on that, do you REALLY think gaming would be faster in XP ?
So regardless of whether you plan on upgrading to Vista somewhere down the line, or you wait until the arrival of MS next OS (only 2 years away, woohoo !!) you simply cannot force Microsoft to abandon their current OS and support XP (its now 6+ years since its intro) for longer than they really want to. SP3 is the beginning of the end ... enjoy it while it lasts.
PS - I ran Win2000 on ALL of my boxes until 2005, so don't think I am an MS or even an XP fan. I hated the move to XP, because it was forced by MS just to play a damn game - Dungeon Siege II. I also resisted the move to play my games in Win95 ... I still own Warcraft II for DOS !!! MAKE A BOOT FLOPPY, you lazy Win95 gamers !!!
Ughh, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
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