windows xp or vista???

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Originally Posted by capnq

Damning with faint praise...

Yay for selective quotation that ignores stated benefits!

Originally Posted by santiago

But I'm not going to run out and and buy it because of those items. I don't even know what most of them are.

I did list several of them. Here's another one: 1st class 64 bit support, including requiring hardware vendors to make both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of drivers to get WHQL certification.

Much like XP vs. win2k, there really isn't any reason to go and buy Vista to upgrade an existing machine (unless you are a crazy tech enthusiast). Obviously, upgrading a win98 machine to win2k or XP was an incredibly good idea, given that the whole win9x line was one of the worst set of OSes ever developed. Also like XP vs. win2k, there isn't really a whole lot of purpose to going and downgrading a new Vista machine to XP. I'm not sure there will be any point to upgrading an existing Vista or XP machine to Windows 7 when it comes out, either.

Certainly, MS has failed to market Vista properly, but its not like it's winME or something; the OS is pretty solid after its initial birthing pains. The same thing happened with winXP, win2k, etc. They all started out with major flaws and bugs and were improved via patches and service packs.