The big "DownGrade" to Vista...

[jason.b.c]

Top 25 reasons to not "downgrade" to vista..

[Chris]

They'll be thousands if not millions of these discussions and in 5 years we'll be doing the same with the next Windows OS. [Vienna, figi?] and we probably did the same with XP.....oooh that was a long time to go.

Remember that you do not have to upgrade and you're not going to be disected and sent into space if you do not. Windows XP SP2 is a fine operating system and I'm sure it will work for many for years to come. Although I do wish MS would get SP3 out of the door. Heck people are still using 98 and i'm sure 95.

Whilst it's true that there will be problems in the beginning with incompabilities, they'll be ironed out before I at least buy a new PC to run Vista.

[nellie2]

I don't really agree with that, I'm running Vista quite happily on a second drive with 1gig of memory and a free third party antivirus, I am having a problem with mIRC but apart from that everything else is working fine and it didn't take me long to find my way around it.

[cozofdeath]

I have to say I was very impressed with hearing about what was going to be included in Vista about a year ago. At about the time I started to read about the different versions being released and what they included I don't know any more. I know I'm not going to buy it before I try it. There also has to be some major improvements in features, otherwise its useless to me. I wish they would just come out with a home and business version and when you install it you can choose if you want the Ultimate setup or minimum. I liked the new media player and browser (although I talk smack about it its decent). I'm not sure about the rest though but I'm excited to try it out.

[pa1916]

I have run VISTA beta versions they were ok for beta but i wouldn't rush to upgrade.

I think in the future Microsoft will push use all into using it,i also have run W2000 for 5 years on my other computer no problems and yet Microsoft will not release versions of WMP 11 or Internet Explorer 7 for W2000 and it's still a supported system,so does that not tell you something.

[Scarecrow Man]

...Heck people are still using 98 and i'm sure 95.

*raises hand*

My entire company, of over 100 computers, are ALL on Windows 98, although we are now phasing it out for XP. Even when I am installing XP, I use a 95 disk when it asks for a "previous full version", since these are upgrade versions of XP.

[CurlyWhirly]

Top 25 reasons to not "downgrade" to vista..

I do agree with a few points with the most prominent being:

23. Missing Features

When first envisioned, Vista promised a new file system (WinFS), virtual folders and many other features that have just plain disappeared.

I do agree that it is a shame that the new WinFS file system is being dropped (for whatever reason) but I'm sure it will be included at a later date?

However, I do not agree with these 2 points:

2. Hardware

For Vista to perform adequately, PCs may need significant hardware upgrades.

I have an old PC with only an Athlon XP 3000+ and 1.5 GB of RAM and it ran okay when I tried out the BETA version of Vista a few months ago.

In fact it was only slightly slower than XP in everyday operation.

13. Cost

Moving to Vista can prove to be expensive when one considers the price of the OS, the cost of hardware upgrades and the cost of migration.

I disagree as if I wanted to I could use my (retail) version of XP Home and choose the upgrade path.

I bought the retail version of XP Home back in 2001 and although it cost me £179.99, I wouldn't say that XP was a waste of money as I have had very few problems with it and what problems there were were (mainly) caused by either malware of unsigned drivers.

If Vista is as stable as XP then I will be looking forward to upgrading but I'm not going to upgrade straight away but wait for the dust to settle first

[kokobucks]

First post. . .

I recently installed Vista Ultimate (about 2 days ago) and it works fine on my laptop. Granted my laptop is fairly new.

While some of the things on the list are warranted, many just decide to nitpick a bit too much.

3. Antivirus

Vista does not bundle an antivirus application, and most third party antivirus applications are not yet compatible with Vista.

4. Driver Support

Vista includes thousands of drivers, but most have been created directly by Microsoft. Many hardware manufacturers do not yet have drivers available for Vista.

5. Compatibility

Vista does a good job of running most common applications, but many third-party applications are not yet fully supported.

But by Jan. 30 2007 most will be solved.

I am using a Trend Micro beta for the antivirus.

Surprisingly the drivers that were included with Vista work pretty well. I was worried because I have a draft-N wireless card in the laptop, but MS found it just fine. The only thing Vista is missing is the media card reader that is in the laptop.

I haven't come across a program that doesn't install on Vista right now, except the older version of Alcohol120, but the new version install just fine.

Regardless, all I know is that Vista won't be another ME. Its not as buggy as I thought it would be off the bat. It has a clean interface and while a lot of it just "whiz-bang" it still makes a difference.