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Testers see Windows XP passing Vista
News Type: Event — Seeded on Fri Nov 30, 2007 8:58 AM EST
Article Source: The Buffalo Newsadvertisement
Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP operating system is about to get faster and Windows Vista isn't, according to a report that caused a stir online this week as industry watchers speculated that a zippier XP could keep customers from upgrading to Vista.
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{"commentId":1229242,"authorDomain":"berry"}
Does this really come as a surprise to anyone? I have Vista on one of my PCs and I like it but I'm not quite sold. I wish the stores would still sell new PCs with XP. You can get it from some companies online, like Dell, but not enough of them.
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- 3 votes
#1 - Fri Nov 30, 2007 8:59 AM EST{"commentId":1229291,"authorDomain":"bigmomma"}
When I bought my computer (last year), it came with XP. I sent off for the Vista software, but never installed it, now I'm glad I didn't!
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- 3 votes
#2 - Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:20 AM EST{"commentId":1229432,"authorDomain":"berry"}
The Upgrade can be a NIGHTMARE!! I had to uninstall a bunch of programs before Vista would let me continue the upgrade. Then I had to go download current drivers for all my hardware and patches for software. If Vista doesn't come pre-installed you may not want to do the upgrade unless you have a lot of time on your hands and a LOT of patience.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":1229809,"authorDomain":"Andimia"}
If you're upgrading the OS on ANY windows based PC you'd be better off burning all of your files to CD's and doing a hard drive reformat and clean install. That means deleting partitions and everything. Doing an OS upgrade has always been messy with nearly every operating system windows has released. For a Core OS A+ certification class I took back in college we had to set up a dual boot system with windows 98 and 2000; I have never feared a little drum icon so much in my life. Then we had to upgrade the computer to XP and we were told a clean install is the way to go especially with that windows 98 partition lurking on the hard drive.
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{"commentId":1230625,"authorDomain":"babin"}
Sure...this makes sense. Sign me up for a Vista upgrade! Not.
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{"commentId":1229446,"authorDomain":"marchinson"}
Microsoft Windows XP2....Sounds good? If they can make it work without breaking something! I said this is the last PC i buy!....Mac will be my next machine
{"commentId":1229446,"threadId":"183165","contentId":"1132299","authorDomain":"marchinson"}
- 1 vote
#3 - Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:14 AM EST{"commentId":1229468,"authorDomain":"berry"}
Breaking something? XP is the most stable OS they've put out. What is it breaking?
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":1229610,"authorDomain":"cobbs"}
I had a nightmare with XP when I tried to install Service Pack 2
I downloaded it off the MS page and when I ran it the previously perfectly functioning computer would not fully boot. It would get to a certain spot and reboot. Called MS customer service and talked to a nice man outside of New Deli. After trying for a while to root out the problem we tried to do a repair on XP and after a two hour chat/wait we got my computer up and running again without SP2 installed.
I ordered the CD of SP2 thinking that my download was corrupted and that was the problem. When I tried to install that the same thing happened. This time the call to customer service was not as successful. My machine was locked up solid. No chance of repair.
So I went out and bought a new hard drive because I still want to mine some of the data off the locked one. Did a fresh install of XP as well as SP2. Reinstalled all my software and have been good to go for a year. What that last tech support person told me is that I had one small driver that was incompatible with SP2 and that's what caused all my problem. It wasn't even one I needed. Just one of those additional programs you get with some software.
So I'll be a bit cautious when SP3 comes out. Just in case.
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{"commentId":1229831,"authorDomain":"Andimia"}
Driver problems aren't the fault of the OS it's whatever company wrote the code for the driver. You always take that risk when upgrading an OS and that's something people don't take into account. Vista won't support your dot matrix printer drivers anymore. whats the point? (that's just an extreme case to paint a clear image of the problems people have with upgrading to vista.) You may have had that printer since 1982 but technology gets old. You can't fit a PCI-Express card into an AGP video slot on your outdated motherboard, your new OS might not like that old palm pilot you have too. it happens.
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{"commentId":1230075,"authorDomain":"cobbs"}
Oh, I know the problem wasn't the OS but it doesn't make it any easier to take when things go south on you some evening after a long day.
As you pointed out in above, burning all files to a CD before any upgrade is a very good option. I now have a 30gig portable hard drive that will hold most of what I have.
Any way you look at it back up, back up, back up has replaced location, location. location in my vocabulary
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{"commentId":1238181,"authorDomain":"Andimia"}
Steve- you give me hope for humanity
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{"commentId":1229617,"authorDomain":"janeway77"}
a zippier XP could keep customers from upgrading to Vista.
Moving to Vista is many things (crazy, dumb, etc), but UPGRADING is not one of them. A move to Vista is a move to frustrating experience that will probably end with returning to XP, or OS X, or Linux.
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- 1 vote
#4 - Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:13 AM EST{"commentId":1229656,"authorDomain":"goodinformation"}
{"commentId":1229704,"authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
I will be curious when SP3 moves out of Beta to see how that works for Windows XP. I did not have good luck with a 1 year old Compaq on Vista, too many conflicts. I was very lucky that Staples agreed to take it back.
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- 1 vote
#6 - Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:40 AM EST{"commentId":1230742,"authorDomain":"JoulesBeef"}
vista is actually pretty good for a techie
in a corporate enviroment.
It also isnt bad for the rare computer user with a brand new vista box.. that emails and surfs and thats it.
It sucks for the upgraders, and most normal computer users.
ANd it is horrid for people really comfortable with xp to realise how much has been renamed and or moved for no apparent reason.
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- 1 vote
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