Not willing to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista

[Jacky]

Are you an user who refuses to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista? If you are, state your reasons here.

For me:

• I am used to Windows XP
  
• I don't want a change of environment
  
• Windows XP works great for me
  
• Compared to Windows Vista, Windows XP still looks better
  

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[mcwkm]

I think a list of reasons to switch to vista would be better but here's mine.
XP works fine.
All the software I use runs on XP or linux
Vista license cost money
My computer were designed for XP home or pro not Vista

[Xtreme $niper]

Well, I have XP and Vista installed on my desktop, dual booting with 2 partitions. I did this because I knew I had a lot of apps that needed XP at the time (though they probably don't anymore) so I left XP to be safe...

But I have to say, I don't think Vista is that bad. Visuals are personal preference. I think in terms of animations and general design, Vista is very sleek and nice looking. That said, I despise the look of IE7/8 when maximized.

It's not really a change of environment, because the general idea of the Windows environment didn't change. The only thing now is you have to click a few authorization windows whenever you try to do something that might introduce a virus into your computer if you don't know what you're doing. Other than that, and some minor folder structure and control panel changes, everything is the same.

It's true that if XP is working fine for you then there's no true reason to upgrade, but if Microsoft does in fact end its support for XP this summer, you're going to have some serious problems on your hands. Keep that in mind the next time you consider Vista.

Now back to my OS X.
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[Jacky]

Please, only for those who refuse to.

I don't want Mac or Linux users hijacking this thread.

I am also dual-booting, but I am still using XP.
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[pharmer4]

Well, i run Vista because when my laptop died, the only one I could get in a hurry ran vista, and it is good enough to stick with rather than downgrade.

That being said, one issue I have is that my external hard drive, which involves 2 x 1Tb Hitachi Deskstars in a Netgear Storage Central Manager, is not really designed to run in Vista, and only does so because of an emergency patch netgear released. On XP, you would never know you were running an external hard drive, because access rates were phenomenal. On Vista, you get continual hangs (temporary, lasting about a minute) in different programmes as they access the information. Playback on iTunes is the only programme that is flawless, although changing information, especially artwork, for the songs is probably the biggest lag I have come across.

Perhaps that is too specific for what this thread is about, but generally, people considering Vista need to make sure that they have compatible hard and software, or are willing to spend money to replace obsolete items.
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[LP-SolidRaven]

The main reason I hate vista is cause of it's memory usage. The second reason is cause half the software I use doesn't even want to install on vista cause of driver issues.
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[neek]

My reasons on why I won't upgrade to Vista are simply this:

• I am used to Windows XP
  
• I have XP tweaked and customized the way I like it
  
• XP is running perfectly fine for me right now, so why bother?
  
• I don't fell like backing up all of my documents (which I have alot of) and spend a whole weekend formatting, installing, tweaking Vista to my liking)
  
• XP runs and performs a hell of alot better and faster than Vista (not to mention, more stable)
  
• I don't feel like running into driver problems with my devices simply because companies/authors are all too lazy to update their drivers for Vista
  
• I prefer a stable OS over an OS with eye candy any day
  
• UAC? No Thanks.

[mcwkm]

To whoever said something about microsoft ending xp support this summer: ms just ended support for windows 2000 so there is no reason to suspect a stop in support for people running xp. The only announcement I have heard from microsoft is that they will stop selling windows xp licenses and this is not even bound to all, they have not ruled out selling licenses for lower end computers that are not quite vista capable. This is just ms refusing to let linux get a foot in the door

[Xtreme $niper]

[ClickFanatic]

My reasons:

XP is still a very stable OS and is still supported with updates.

Vista has more compatibility related issues (drivers and such) than XP. I assume a new PC would run it, but upgrading an existing setup is not certain to work out well.

Some software that I use is buggy or unsupported on Vista.

Vista is a resource hog.

If I check the system requirements for (the latest) games, the minimal amount of RAM for gaming on Vista is twice as much as for XP.

Very few games actually require DX10 and many that were made for DX9 require a patch to run on Vista.

Given the above, I can't really be motivated to go through the process of upgrading.
Besides, I am quite pleased with XP as it is.
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[spock]

I am dual booting, and I actually prefer linux But still I'm using windows for several pieces of software, and I just don't want to upgrade to Vista.

Why?
Because I hear a lot of terrible stories about it.
I don't really need Eye Candy anyway to do my work
Vista uses more RAM, and no matter how fast my computer is, Vista will make it slower than XP
Vista seems to have quite some problems with drivers and old hardware
Quite a lot of software is not completely Vista-ready, some doesn't even work at all


Basically these are quite the same reasons I've used windows 98 next to linux till 2005 instead of XP (That's right; till 4 years after XPwas released )

So I don't actually think I'll be upgrading soon.
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[krt]

My reason was a paradox I found with upgrading:

Either use the fancy Aero and other spiffy GUI features and eat up your system resources OR turn them off and go back to something that is essentially XP with a bad theme... yes, I don't like the black taskbar, same thing turned me off KDE4.

Now, that is fine you might say, the start/search, media functionality and other added features will still be there. I didn't even mind the compatibility issues and other possible hickups with hardware and software as I'd probably have little trouble working around the issues or waiting it out.

However, this was what Microsoft had to show for 5 years of development, and I also don't like their plans for their modular Windows 7. Also, my interest in open source software was increasing rapidly at the time, so I thought, why bother sticking with an OS that isn't free* and is not showing much signs of improvement.

So, for me, it's not so much a reluctance to upgrade, it's more not seeing the point of it. why a change of environment for little benefit. Of course,
that was the point where I figured why bother and installed Ubuntu which has almost caught up to Windows in being a friendly easy to use OS and is improving at a much faster rate.