I too, have a Pentium D, running XP Media Center. I co booted with XP and never used it. It was so time consuming to keep the two systems updated, software, documents, etc. Vista is good. Time will tell if it will be a survivor like XP. MS has to come out with a great app as they once did, year after year, in the 80-90’s. I have faith they will again.

It’s not my responsibility to secure MS an income. Businesses are created for the sole purpose of turning a profit, BUT…this profit is EARNED through the application of principles based on a thing once called CUSTOMER SATISFACTION. Not Advanced DRM.

Whether users were able to back their claims that Vista sucked with an extensive and largely irrelevant lexicon of technical jargon or not, the public let Microsoft know they didn’t appreciate the notion of an O/S that behaved as though it were the sole reason users bought or built their machines.

And Microsoft were dense enough to argue the point.

Had they any brains or a modicum of class they’d have first listened, gathered information on user requirements, then gone back to the drawing board and responded with a) A half-assed attempt at a visually pleasing, succinct ergo reliable O/S or b) An apology followed by same in a year or two’s time.

Vista bashing is boring and passe.

http://tnetech.net

Anyways, for personal use, I really wouldn’t mind upgrading to Vista as long as it’s with new hardware. But that’s me with two computers on a home network. For a pre-existing corporate network, I could understand staying on XP.

I belive that Vista is a flop and it will be a lot like Windows ME, it will need to slip silently under the rug.

Vista RTM
Method: Get size of file to determine IO block size: For large files, this is typically 2048KiB, writes asynchronously to destination as soon as the block is full (non-cached).
Pros: No hit on RAM. Good for high latency networks. fast interdisk copying. No more corrupted files due to silly users
Cons: out of sequence copying: high IO seek rate; very slow intra disk copying; Explorer takes a long time to estimated transfer time because the IO block is variable.

Vista SP1
Method: Cached-IO is back for both local and remote file copying: 2MiB read ahead cache, 1MiB write cache. Variable async I/O block size of 128KiB to 1024KiB
Pros: Significant improvement in PERCEIVED performance. Even better copying on high latency networks (slashed SMB I/O size from 60KiB to 32KiB). Greatly improved system responsiveness.
Cons: slow intradisk copying of large files.
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Which leads to slower rate BUT more reliable data. If i was to do business, I would choose an OS that can handle my data more reliably.

Another thing that you might want to consider is that when you skin your XP to look like Vista, the resources will also go up.

I also agree with the economy thing right now. People are just not spending frivilously now like they were in the past. The money that the goverment sent out that was supposed to boost the economy was a flop in the least. Statistically most of the money was spent paying bills and debts, and most of the other people put the money in the bank for a cushion. It didn’t help the economy much at all. Vista would be considered frivelous spending at the moment as many people have a perfectly working copy of XP so there is no reason to upgrade. Also service pack 3 was just released giving people more of a reason to stick with XP. When vista was first released the bad vibe kept people from buying it and this still hasn’t gone away. Apple is partially to blame also, their getamac ads point out every single flaw in the Vista OS and they pound it into your head with a hammer. This has people still thinking vista has all of these problems. For the most part it hasn’t boosed apples sales at all but it has kept people from upgrading to vista.