when dealing with both XP and Vista, I found a couple of things (was and still am working on a optimized driver review/FAQ) and found that vista mostly just has beta or just non reliable drivers, compared to XP. XP has had problems when it first started in terms of game performance over windows 2000, but later grew quickly due to the amount of people switching from ME. But XP does not come off as an ME to today's standards. Why? because it was a well thought out OS with no real benifits over 2000 besides some graphical changes and security changes. But it ran well, and looked good, why do we need Vista? Cause MS saw that there is no more market for XP, now that everyone either has XP or just pirates it, the money grabbing slobs at MS thought it would be smart to just releace a OS in order to charge people.
Now that everyone has XP, if they want to go further into gaming, and upcoming software, they will be forced to move to VISTA, as previous support for XP will be removed. And no, MS does not care about our benifits, once vista has hit everyone, and everyone migrated, they will create a new OS, wich will force everyone to move from VISTA to that OS, and we will once again get this thread stating why everyone here hates MS for making us switch to VISTA.
The things that I hate Vista are:
1. The Aero or whatever, the 3d effects, look nicer and use less resources in Linux, and you can tell MS just created a knock-off
2. Performance is pretty bad for gaming compared to XP. Although, unless you already have an uber system, there is nothing to complain about (I have a friend who tests hardware for a company, and he uses quad core Intel Kentsfield overclocked to 3.5ghz, 2x8800gtx's, 3gigs of PC6400 ram, 2x 150gb Raptors, he is praising vista.... yea go figure!)
3. The DRM crap or whatever, that watches what we do and makes sure that everything we have is legit. I think Microsoft forgot that, that crap is illegal in Canada (were I am from) and that we are allowed to pirate whatever, and allowed to do whatever we want. Although, with dealing with vista, I did not run into any real issues with pirated software, as it all ran fine, just like the bought stuff (Pirating should only happen to company's who do not care about the customer).
4. Support is crap at the moment. Drivers from Nvidia are horrible, and ATI just came out with decent drivers, so if you are one of the lucky people who have a HD 2900xt, then expect to only get better performance from ATI based cards, cause at least they know how to make decent drivers, were NVIDIA currently fails at (performance on DX10 is real crap on 8800 cards, when orriginaly dx10 was supposed to be based on a more optimized DX9 with added effects Bittech look at DX10)
5. Software support/quantity is poor at the moment. Well, do not forget, VISTA is fairly new, so expect there to be not much in terms of a game library. Expect some really good games to come out (Alan Wake, Bioshock, Crysis, Haze, etc.)
6. Lack of Service packs. But what can you do? vista is fairly new, so expect there to be a first service pack coming real soon!
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