As we come up on the one year anniversary of the release of Windows Vista, it seems a good time to reflect on the OS. I have always been an early adopter of Windows operating systems. Moving to 4.01 when others were happy with the 3.x versions. Going from store to store looking for Dos 5.0, due to it’s improved memory manager features that allowed you to properly configure your PC to use extended and or expanded memory so that I could run the app that always said I did not have enough memory.
Purchasing and installing Windows 95 on August 24 1995 even though I said I was going to hold out and see how it goes. The same for Windows 98. Thankfully I skipped the Windows Me fiasco.
When Windows XP was released to manufacturer’s I ordered a new PC with the shinny new Windows XP.
Now here I am one year after the release of Windows Vista, still running Windows XP. Why, I am not really sure. In each prior upgrade, there seemed to be a reason to upgrade. In this case I am not sure if it is so. Sure, Vista has some interesting features, but not enough to get me to purchase a new PC, with at least 2Gb of ram. Will I run Vista at some point? I would imagine so, but I am still very happy with XP.
What are you running, Windows XP? Windows Vista? Something else?
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has a recent article on their site with a follow up article in their newspaper that discusses the same similar topic.
Click here to read.
February 1st, 2008 at 12:54 pm
When Vista was released I bought a copy for one of my machines, and if you recall Rob, I thought it was quite something. One year on I’m not so sure! Ok, some of the features are good, but overall I think XP is much better. I have all the Vista eye candy I need on my XP machine, which out performs Vista with just half of the RAM and lower end hardware.