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Story: Developers snub Vista in favour of XP
Vista experience
I purchased a Vista laptop computer some 10 months ago. I experienced lots of problems and irritations which were not resolved by carrying out several time consuming recoveries. So I installed XP and have no desire to try and revert to Vista on that computer.
However, I have just set up a friend's newly purchased Vista laptop, slightly lower specification than mine, and found that it runs so much better than mine did. I conclude that the hardware design and drivers are now catching up with the requirements of Vista.
So I conclude that Vista did come to market before the hardware could properly support it and that this is a major factor in such universal complaint about Vista.
On the subject of the supposed green credentials of Vista, I find this a ludicrous suggestion when adoption of Vista requires so much otherwise unecessary expense and investment in new hardware, hardware which also requires more power to perform.
Moley
Retired, UK
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