"Mike Hall - MVP" <mikehall@mvps.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> .. for the Vista bashers..
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> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=382
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The case is as simple as one can think of :

Windows XP is designed for Computers that were common in the year 2000 :
namely a 300-400 MhZ Cpu and memory of 128 MB Ram and no demands of any
special graphics.


No wonder this OS will literally fly at warp speed on today's Hardware.

And to anyone out there : If you happen to have the very first XP "gold" CD
Build 2600, without any SP1 or 2.. well install and enjoy ( but don't go
online ) - you will see bugs and incompatibility all over.

You should also remember that XP's Life is only still around because of
Vista's delayed release. Microsoft wanted to replace XP as early as 2004 or
2005.

XP is a good and stable OS, but it is hopelessly outdated and relies on year
2000 technologies, that's the point, you can add-in 3rd partie software to
get near Vistas Look and features, but you will never be able to copy the
underlying techs.

Vista is more than just "Aero", think of the built-in speech recognition,
the preview and filter options, saveable searches a and what else goodies
are in there. It's a shame that Microsoft's marketing buro does never seem
to point out these new features.

And with the already around hotfixes and a bit of tweaking here and there
Vistas slowlyness can be handled on older Hardware, on new PCs I don't see
the need for such actions.

I myself was tempted more than one time to go back to XP, but I always
resisted when looking at the OS with brain turned on.

XP has grown up with SP2, Vista will go the same route and in the year 2010
or so, when the next Windows Client will be released, people will say "Vista
is so much better and faster than >put Codename here<" ..

Some things never change

Sascha.