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18 months in. Why arent you on Vista?

bonafidetk · 2008-10-06 08:38:42

I am curious for the reasons people are not using Vista. I myself am still running XP and for the foreseeable future I wont be getting Vista.My reasons are price, compatability headaches, ease of use, games benchmark worse on vista than XP, game requirements being higher because Vista is a system ho.Really, I probably wont get Vista until the big players drop XP support for their products.

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#101 Nuchaleft

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In my case, No stores within 25k's of me stock it, they stock XP. Plus I've never had a serious problem with XP that I didn't cause myself :P

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#102 Zoibee

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The on-line banking software my bank provides only works in Windows XP at the moment. Plus, there is no real need to switch to Vista until Vista-only games and applications start showing up...

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#103 mahlerite

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it hogs more memory, has steeper system requirements, and i have no issues with xp, which is also very fast.

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#104 Royas

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I originally wasn't switching because I refuse to be an early adopter of any MS software. I do not pay other people to be their Beta tester. Later, I didn't switch because of the rumors of game compatability issues, and because of stories of slower systems with Vista. Figured I'd wait still longer, see if they got more bugs worked out. Now, I won't switch because I've had a chance to use it. My wife's new laptop has Vista on it, and I really dislike it. It feels clunky, awkward and completely unintuitive. It's like sitting down at a Mac. I can get it to work, but it's not easy or natural. So, I guess I can say I'm not on Vista because I genuinely don't like the interface.

16 years ago

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#105 gozalo

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Because I'd have to uninstall Leopard to install Vista, and that would be just silly.

16 years ago

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#106 1q3er5

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Even windows XP is bloated with useless stuff, vista is even worse!

16 years ago

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#107 mrbojangles25

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if it aint broke, dont fix it.

XP isnt broken, and I can afford Vista anyway. Though I could have a couple months back but I still didnt buy it.

XP is like my Jeep: its old, but I wouldnt trade it for anything new unless it were very much alike.

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#108 Dogswithguns

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....Im on Vista. what's wrong with that?

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#109 danb0

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Actually as I understand Vista (with SP1) is on par with game performance in XP so that no longer holds true. Regardless, the reason I'm not moving to Vista is because XP does everything I need it to do and it is still being supported. Also with Windows 7 coming out relatively soon I think it would be a waste of money to upgrade to Vista.

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