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Originally Posted by cyberxxx
Your article? Are you IT expert? No? So why someone should listen to it? I was working as system programmer during 5 years (was writing low-level code for MS-DOS and Win32 OS's), but I don't post my own toughs here. Not because I had no experience with Vista (I had), but because I know that the ppl here won't be interested to read it. That's why I posted a link to Peter Gutmann's article. He is a know computer scientist and it will be stupid to ignore his comments. Even if you don't agree with his point 
As about the 5 year old equipment. Personally I don't have a super-computer for work. I have a rather average PC: Core2Duo E6550/2Gb/GeForce 9600GT. However don't want to give away a half of my system resources to some OS just to let it launch itself. I want these resources for the applications I run. Vista has ZERO features that I can't found in XP.
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Well lets see I started with my first computer in 1979 on a Trs 80 model III, moved up to a few IBM clones not long after that, used win 3.1, win 95, win 98, win ME, Win XP home, Win XP Pro, and now Vista Ultimate. Vista is the most powerful, most stable, easiest to use of any of the MS Os's. Ive dabbled on many different unix / linux flavors over the years, and a Mac Pro quad core with 4gb of ram. I had issues with every linux distro, and the Mac crashed on me 4 times in less than 4 hours. This was using simple programs. Ftp's, photoshop etc. BRAND new Mac and it crashed 4 times. The mac had no excuse of hardware compatibility. After all mac builds them. Now here are all my copies of vista 3 running on boxes I built and picked out the hardware, and a laptop that came with it preinstalled. NONE of them have crashed on me EVER except my desktop once or twice, but that was due to bad memory timing settings I picked.
As for it being faster than Xp? I beg to differ. Maybe you are talking about a new brand new install? Great, well the problem with xp was always you had to reinstall every 3 or 4 months at most. It would slow down more and more and more as you went. I still have 1 xp pro install sitting in the next room and I have to work on it once a week to get it moving like it should again. So I dont give a hoot what any article might say. I know how MY computers run using vista and its awesome.