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[Nvyseal]

images/news/vista.jpgDutch Consumers' Association (Consumentenbond) has recommended that customers who purchase new PCs insist on obtaining Windows XP over Vista. In addition, it called on computer shops to provide Windows XP downgrades to customers who have already obtained Vista from said shops. After unsuccessfully trying to persuade Microsoft to provide those free downgrades, the DCA said that consumers would have to take matters into their own hands since Microsoft does not agree with its assessment of the OS, which the organization said appears to have been released before it was truly ready, according to comments recorded by Expatica.

The organization's spat with Microsoft began when it conducted a survey on Vista's performance. According to the survey results, the OS performed quite poorly, racking up 5,000 consumer complaints in less than five weeks. Commonly reported issues center on printer and hardware compatibility, system crashes, and slow peripherals. The DCA met with Microsoft to discuss its concerns before issuing its statement warning consumers away from Vista—evidently, whatever olive branch Microsoft offered wasn't enough to satisfy the group.

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[BlueScreenOfDeath]

Sigh...Sad that although XP did this while it was teething...no one wants to remember the bad days when XP wasn't so stable and had a ton of drivers.

[VoodooGuru]

BlueScreenOfDeath, on Oct 15 2007, 04:26 PM, said:

Sigh...Sad that although XP did this while it was teething...no one wants to remember the bad days when XP wasn't so stable and had a ton of drivers.

Personally, I don't recall XP ever having issues with being slow. While I did have some hardware issues, mainly with video cards, I also don't recall having any other issues with hardware.

Plain and simple, Vista is a pig with lipstick. It IS slow and it IS a memory and resource hog. Even if you disable the candy colors and unnecessary services it is STILL slow.

I have so far removed Vista from 7 machines of friends, family and a couple of clients and installed XP for them.

[BlueScreenOfDeath]

VoodooGuru, on Oct 16 2007, 06:42 AM, said:

Personally, I don't recall XP ever having issues with being slow. While I did have some hardware issues, mainly with video cards, I also don't recall having any other issues with hardware.

Plain and simple, Vista is a pig with lipstick. It IS slow and it IS a memory and resource hog. Even if you disable the candy colors and unnecessary services it is STILL slow.

I have so far removed Vista from 7 machines of friends, family and a couple of clients and installed XP for them.

Xp was slow on machines when it came out too...unless you of course jumped on the bandwagon well after sp1? I remember a time when XP wasnt that compatible with anything and i definately remember a substancial number of patches coming out ON RTM day and even monthes after. XP was more buggy.

pig with lipstick eh? XP looked like a drag queen as far as UI went.

[Camaro]

Within a couple of months of xp going gold, I got it an ran it on a machine that had 128mbs of ram an a 633 celeron I never looked back from that point, I had all the driver support I could use and it was much quicker then the me that I had.

[m.oreilly]

VoodooGuru, on Oct 16 2007, 05:42 AM, said:

Personally, I don't recall XP ever having issues with being slow. While I did have some hardware issues, mainly with video cards, I also don't recall having any other issues with hardware.

Plain and simple, Vista is a pig with lipstick. It IS slow and it IS a memory and resource hog. Even if you disable the candy colors and unnecessary services it is STILL slow...

i guess if a fella runs an older intel dell, xp should have almost all the drivers you would need. you gotta admit, vista has most, if not all hardware covered for the majority of us, out of the box. and smooth, to boot...after running vista as my main OS for quite awhile, i really really don't want to use xp on my machine. if this is the new windows ME, so be it...way better than xp, over here ...haha, love them candy colors