HAHA, I'm not switching for a good while. One thing that pissed me off in XP was all the cute stuff that eats up my ram and my CPU power. The first thing I'm going to do is turn all of that off. Who cares how it looks, it's wheather or not it will run my apps without problems that's importiant.

I think I'm going to write a program the day Vista comes out that turns off all the shiny bells and whistles.

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now thats not a posotive attitude

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No, Its a smart one.

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lolli-lops

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yes............ lolli-lops lmao, the only prob is that vista is slow and dose not run on most computers, and those stupid black screens before the little mesages. i prefer xp, and my xp looks like mac, its so cool

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i had beta 5308 and i didnt like it mainly because its like xp witha different theme and its got processes running in the background eating up ram and i dont know what they even are. also the sys requirements are so high, but im getting a new comp next week 3.6ghz p4 2gb ram 256mb6600 ex-army $1000 AU (begging my dad for like 2 years to get new comp and he finnally cracked gotta pay $100 bucks though :P)
the good thing about it is...the theme looks cool

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Ahhh Vista.... i've been following the development since the early alphas myself (im a TechNet subscriber). Some things to know about Vista -

- High system requirements. Although the MINIMUM 1GB of RAM and a recommended 2.8GHz system, it is extremely efficient. Even the latest Beta 2 can run BF2 faster than my XP installation, and i only have 1GB of RAM! (Yes, i can run pretty much any game on Vista better than XP and it works fine. It's OTHER programs that crash occassionally....)
- Those unknown proccesses? Like XP, Microsoft tends to barge in non-essential services with baseline Windows systems (has ever since 2000). Being the tweak-head i am, first thing i did when i installed Vista was check out the new services (by going to Start > Run > 'services.msc'... try it on XP too). You can read about each service, and, if you're sure you don't need it, you can disable it. I have about 10 services disabled in Vista that are usually on Automatic Startup! Do some research if you're not sure. The Services panel is the first place to go to get the most speed out of your machine!


Vista, indeed, has some very nice features - but i am getting sick of people saying that they 'stole' a lot of things from Mac. If you wanna get technical, 'Mac' stole a lot of stuff from other OS's too such as AmigaOS/Workbench and various Unix systems.

Also, Apple is 49% owned by Microsoft. So who cares.

They all suck anyway. Linux rules. Lol.

Oh, in reply to that comment "Who cares how it looks, it's wheather or not it will run my apps without problems that's importiant".... whats the point of having a blinged-up power-pc without the eye-candy? Besides - Windows (ever since 2000) has a thing called TRUE MULTI-TASKING - each subroutine has its own memory space and if a program request additional RAM or CPU cycles, it uses what is called "priority" (to halt programs not being used) and "paging/virtual memory" (to temporarily free RAM for programs with higher priority). If you're worried about visual effects, i got a solution for you.....


Direct X. Or Amiga.

HA! Im a jerk...

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Lol, a jerk with good points. I dont see why people like OSX and then start flaming windows all of a sudden....I mean, where were you guys when OS9 was released huh? Back then, you all were in love with windows so I say stop jumping on the bandwaggon and choose a god damn OS.

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Haha

Each OS has it's good points, i don't hate anything really. I'm just ignorant with Mac (but i do run OSX Tiger on my Pentium4 PC, dual-boot with XP and Vista

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