... really, really, hoping this thread remains unknown where I work... Vista is not that bad - was released way before time, so it's just now coming to where it was aimed. Problem is, by now it's widely tagged as unreliable (wrong hardware+ early release) and slow (again, wrong hardware). Add Linux and Microsoft's own conflicts about when we're getting it's replacement, many corporations are just sticking to XP or worse, returning to XP. Not that I'm sad about the increase in workload, but there was a lot of stress around here. Microsoft's own tech support is still owing me some fixes, not knowing the client dumped Vista after the first month of suffering.
Tuning is not everything, but makes a lot o difference. XP is rather easy to fine tune (now, after many fixes) so we usually spend more time tweaking Vista - some extra 35mm film at the end of the month. I do advise (whenever I'm asked) to choose XP over Vista, or give Linux a try. Software cost is a rather touchy issue, sometimes. Luiz Felipe luiz.felipe at techmit.com.br Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:12:48 -0500, "Adam Maas" <[email protected]> escreveu: > I dunno, I've found Vista to be significantly better than XP, provided > you do 3 things: > > 1. A clean install. Upgrading doesn't work, and results in a system > with all the stability of Windows Me. > 2. Have fully supported hardware. Vista is picky about drivers (but > supported drivers are far less flaky than XP drivers) > 3. Turn off useless services. Vista, particularly with early > installers, runs a lot of crap you don't need. Turn it off. > > The other thing people forget about vista is that it uses RAM very > differently than XP. Vista will keep everything it can in System > Memory, which means huge memory footprints under light load. XP will > swap everything not in current use to disk, which means light emmory > footprints and massive delays when swapping back in. > > -Adam > Who'se had 3 Vista systems so far, and is very pleased with them (one > went back to XP solely due to support issues with some 3rd party > software I need). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
