Post edited 8:10 am - April 13, 2009 by tom2000
Post edited 8:12 am - April 13, 2009 by tom2000

Vista certainly looks a lot nicer, can be easier to use and is a lot more secure than Windows XP. However to look nicer and to have some of the easier to use features, Vista requires more “grunt” to run, and the security features can also be a pain in the a*s - its suspicious of almost everything. For a beginner or general home user, its more pleasant to use than XP, but if you're going to want to do some complex things it becomes a huge hinderance. Certainly networking can be a problem depending on what type of Vista you get.

At work, we've just got 6 new computers with Vista Business. I turned one on and used Vista for a while, the computer ran quite nicely. I took another of these new machines and got rid of Vista, I put XP on instead - the computer ran like a rocket. Because our system at work is incompatible with Vista, I'm putting XP on all of them anyway, but it was quite remarkable to see the difference side by side.

Tom