Topic: If you were going to buy a Microsoft operating system right now,

[Tony]

which would it be ?

I'm only asking because every body I've spoken to who run Vista, say its massively resource hungry. My son was thinking of buying and installing XP on his laptop. I guess he don't like Vista 

Imagine this Save XP

[Clive]

General consensus is that Vista is the new Windows Me - a dead end operating system which is awaiting the arrival of Windows 7 in 2010.  MS were just greedy and hoped the public would shell out money on an OS that slows their system down and screws up their software.   I insisted on XP Pro for the new machine I bought in January this year and would do so again.   

[Tony]

Yes Clive this guy seems to be of the same opinion as you

Why I downgraded  from Vista to XP

[Simon]

I have Vista on my laptop, but only because it came pre-installed.  Also, I wanted to experience it for myself, as others were saying it was poor compared to XP.  I have found that on a standard spec machine, such as my lappy, it does run quite slowly, and I am often sitting there waiting for commands to execute.  For example, it can take up to 60 seconds for Firefox to launch from cold, and the Send To command takes forever to get the actual destinations menu to pop up.  I haven't had the crashes that some have reported, and also haven't had any real compatibility issues, so I wouldn't say Vista is totally bad, but I did install XP on my new machine.

[Tony]

Hey, Bro I just made an impulse purchase today.......I had this horrible vision of being stuck with having to  buy Vista

[Rik]

I'm of the Vista is the new Me school, and would buy XP.

[Simon]

Hey, Bro I just made an impulse purchase today.......I had this horrible vision of being stuck with having to  buy Vista

I'm sure I've already said this, but good buy, mate! 

[Baz]

Hey, Bro I just made an impulse purchase today.......I had this horrible vision of being stuck with having to  buy Vista

sorry to intrude guys but Ive noticed this before and wondered if theres  any significance in it...........Bro???  is it as in kin or are you both in the hood or summit

[Clive]

Merely a figure of speech Baz.   

[Simon]

A long way back in the distant annuls of PC Pals, Tony and I were both in the process of building our own machines for the first time.  The original thread has unfortunately vanished, but it was very entertaining for all, and we became known as the Chuckle Brothers, hence the 'Bro' and 'Bruv' references have stuck. 

[Rik]

And there's nothing like a sticky Bro...

[Baz]

     ok thanks

[Sandra]

As you already know Tony, I dont tend to buy much software 
I do however like using Vista Ultimate 32 and dont seem to have experienced the slow down of my pc that others complain of 

[Tony]

As you already know Tony, I dont tend to buy much software 

Me neither, this is really hurting  So how come you ended up using Vista, with all the bad press it has received  ?

I do however like using Vista Ultimate 32 and don't seem to have experienced the slow down of my pc that others complain of 

Yer but, yer but, yer but, your PC's always seem to be leading edge pieces of kit. And I think there in lies the problem with Vista, in that you really need a high spec  PC to run it.

[Camstop]

Gotta Say. Vista has been my most stable operating system i've had and doesn't cause me any problems ever, touch wood