XP had much, much more traction at launch than Vista had. XP, pre SP1,
was infinitely more usable than Vista is post SP1.
My vote for Vista will be that it'll climb in the boat with Me. The UI
changes (aero) are here to stay, but hopefully Win7 will be what XP is
today.
In any case it doesn't matter much to me. The last day of XP sales I got
a MacBook Pro. :) My days of Windows as a desktop OS are (hopefully) over.
maccrawj wrote:
Read the Vista lawsuit papers & see why Vista was so labatomized by the
request of the the likes of Dell & Intel looking to be able to sell
their existing hardware solutions. Then send you business to HP who
seems to have happily bit-the-bullet & upgraded their offerings to match
original Vista requirements only to be screwed sans-KY by the
bar-lowering. Now I guess you could also say Intel is doing it again to
MS adding insult to injury after screwing Vista to begin with.
2K was not popular until a few service packs, XP same until SP2, will
Vista get a bump later in the life-cycle or become the next ME?
Inquiring minds want to know!
From what I see biggest loss for me sticking with XP is lack of 64bit
support thus more memory per app & solid 64bit drivers, and maybe DX10
but all could have been added & supported into XP with MS charging $50
for an XP version 2 similar to 95-98-9se. FWI incremental for less money
would have made more sense than hobbled Vista.
