| I use Windows XP, Redhat Linux, an iMac with Tiger, and a laptop with VISTA (because that's the only way Dell sold it). VISTA is an absolute miserable piece of crap, slow and tedious -- little more than a lame attempt to copy the iMac interface. If I had time I would downgrade it to XP -- the de facto stable operating system of choice for 9 out of 10 desktop users.
All of the bona fide benchmarks of XP vs VISTA that I have read show that XP is clearly faster for day to day users.
From a business perspective, VISTA is nothing more than an attempt by Microsoft to throw out a new product that would hopefully generate $ billions to increase the company's bottom line, and more importantly (in their minds) elevate the price of their stagnant stock. |