Windows Vista vs Windows XP

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

I actually, despite popular acclaim, find Vista much more stable that XP - XP has done some fairly random things for me before. The most significant of this included the system ignoring my user profile and creating a new one to replace it. It was very frustrating to have to resort my entire start menu, documents folder, and personalised options such as desktop wallpaper.

For me though, despite Vista's seeming superiority over XP, I do find that the old 9x generation of Windows were faster and more stable than the next generation OSes. I remember my upgrade from 98 to XP, and was disappointed when my overall speed of boot slowed by a rather noticeable amount. If I remember rightly 95 certainly was the fastest of the batch, followed closely by 98 and 98 SE. Windows Me was something I was strongly advised never to upgrade to, so I can't really comment on it.

[Bijo]

Ah, the old days of Win95, 98, 2000. 2000 Pro was very good.

Nowadays XP is just good. Since I use certain music software and since it seems there are people complaining about Vista I will not go for it yet. What I severely dislike about Vista is that it seems to hog down one's memory and that the interface is too different from XP. Then again, I have not really experienced Vista that much personally and am relying on anecdotal evidence. THEN AGAIN, why the hell would people lie about it? The time that I will finally utilize Vista shall arrive, but it is not soon enough.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

I'm still using XP PRO SP2, though next year I'll probably get Vista.

[Pharnakes]

Me too, I'm sticking with xp for all the ussual reasons, but will probably go for vista fairely soon.

Indeed, I ordered 4gigs of ram with my new comp, against the day that I upgrade to vista.

[Lemur]

As another Orgah wrote, I'm gonna ride XP 'till the wheels fall off. Besides, good things are coming for the old school.

After pronouncing Windows Vista SP1 a "performance dud" two weeks ago, Devil Mountain Software, a Florida-based software development firm, reported that an upcoming update for Windows XP will offer substantial performance gains.

Running an Office productivity test suite on a preview version of Service Pack 3 for Windows XP, Devil Mountain discovered a 10 percent performance boost over the current version of Windows XP, the company reported on its blog.

[Husar]

I read about that today Lemur and the source I read it from also said the testers are a bit biased towards XP (sorry, no nickel for you).
Of course in this office benchmark XP was twice as fast as Vista anyway which isn't really what my personal experience shows.