CWmike writes "More than one in every three new PCs is downgraded from Windows Vista to Windows XP, either at the factory or by the buyer, said performance and metrics researcher Devil Mountain Software, which operates a community-based testing network. "The 35% is only an estimate, but it shows a trend within our own user base," Craig Barth, the company's CTO, said. "People are taking advantage of Vista's downgrade rights." Last year, Devil Mountain benchmarked Vista and XP performance using other performance-testing tools and concluded that XP was much faster. Barth said things haven't changed since then. "Everything I've seen clearly shows me that Vista is an OS that should never have left the barn."" Link to Original Source
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Well, I waited for SP1, and just happened to have bought a new dual-core machine with 2Gb of memory on-board at the same time [actually Vista Business came with the machine - so I thoguht I'd give it a go]. Just for fun, I added another 2Gb for 'pennies'.
So far Vista is running beautifully, and I run n copies of XP and Ubuntu in virtual machines.
I never thought I'd say it, but I'm beginning to love Vista now.
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Well, I waited for SP1, and just happened to have bought a new dual-core machine with 2Gb of memory on-board at the same time [actually Vista Business came with the machine - so I thoguht I'd give it a go]. Just for fun, I added another 2Gb for 'pennies'.
So far Vista is running beautifully, and I run n copies of XP and Ubuntu in virtual machines.
I never thought I'd say it, but I'm beginning to love Vista now.