The Great Windows XP vs Vista/7 Debate

[L.C.]

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1556114&page=2#41

Posts #41 to #49 hit it home for me. That's why I had to post this thread.

 

I have to admit that my dad, being over 50 years old and having provided Windows 7 Professional on a laptop to him only about a month ago, is really liking Windows 7 over XP a lot. Although, I will show him those 9 posts on HF and ask him for his opinion, and post here. I'm really curious to know what he thinks..

 

You guys?

Edited October 24, 2010 by L.C.

[Dav]

Now that I am used to it I am a big fan of win 7. Its very stable and works flawlessly for the things i do.

 

For old software there is WinXP mode, which I discovered works well recently.

[Dr Brain]

There is no debate. Windows XP has nothing going for it, except familiarity. And if that were the only thing keeping you on an OS, you'd still be using DOS or Win95 NOT XP. To reiterate, there is no debate.

[»Lynx]

^^

[Samapico]

^^

 

 

There's no way I'm ever going back to XP now... as for compatibility issues (which are rare), it's easy to setup a virtualpc XP machine. The only thing I used it for is VB6.

[Yupa]

7 is tolerable (compared to other versions of Windows) once you install Classic Shell, disable Aero and do a few other things. It's no Unix DE, though, and the price is certainly wrong.

[Dr Brain]

Wait... you complain that it's not as good as a Linux window manager, then recommend software to remove all its new Linux-like features? How does that make sense?

 

I'm no MS fanboy (I used gentoo w/ KDE as my primary desktop for more than a year), but you have to give them credit when they've actually improved something.

[»gallitin]

I prefer Windows 7 to XP. Windows 7 on laptop computer, but for now they don't support 64 bit Windows 7 on some multiple processors machines from what I read so desktop on XP for a while longer. Edited October 25, 2010 by Gallitin

[Samapico]

they don't support 64 bit Windows 7 on some multiple processors machines from what I read so desktop on XP for a while longer.

What? XP's 64bit support sucks anyway...

 

I don't know where you read that, but I never heard of this...

[»gallitin]

No it's on 32 bit XP right now. I want to move to 64 bit Windows 7 so rest of my ram can be utilized, but kept getting installation errors. I then read that the Dell T5400 isn't compatible with Windows 7 64 bit as of now.

[mineRBot89]

My laptop was barely compatible with Windows Vista... I got a copy of 7 from my friend, but I haven't wanted to install it because im afraid of how bad it's going to run on here.

[Samapico]

Windows 7 will run better than Vista.

 

A lot

[»Lynx]

I have to admit, Windows 7 is a lot better than XP for me, and it's A LOT better than Vista. It's nearly as productive as OS X, but not quite there yet.

[»Purge]

Pretty much the only reason I'm using XP is because the computer runs sluggish on Vista (though it came pre-installed, satisfies bare minimum requirements), whereas it blazes on XP.

[»SD>Big]

xp was great. vista was absolutely terrible, i uninstalled it after a week. windows 7 is awesome, no need to switch back to xp.

[Kilo]

I like XP because all of the terrible programs written by terrible programmers who rely on administrator access to have the program work correctly still work correctly. Down with security!

[Dr Brain]

That's why Win7 is great, because many of those terrible programs that were broken in Vista now work again!

[Guest ***CELLPH0NE]

Vista Owns.

 

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