Comments on: “Bloated, business-reject” Vista will surpass XP, but not any time soon

By: Windows Vista Business system requirements

Windows Vista Business system requirements — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:46:23 +0000

Windows Vista Business system requirements

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:15:11 +0000

Be careful regarding the idea that all new machines shipping with Vista/XXX all contain some type of automatic downgrade available.

Many do not, and some that did (Lenovo for example) have now stopped shipping all of their ThinkPads with an automatic XP downgrade (no doubt due to pressure or extra cost from Microsoft).

By: C Wynter

C Wynter — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:31:18 +0000

I have to agree that although Vista looks nice, it is ridiculously resource hungry. A HP Core 2 Duo notebook with 2gb of RAM is reduced to crawling speed with Vista and has frequent lockups. I have not had any issues integrating with XP networks as long as the TCP/ip 6 is disabled. After 2 months with Vista I have installed a new drive and loaded XP. What a difference - the notebook is now a pleasure to use and simply flies.
OEM’s supplying notebooks must return to offering XP as an option - even supplying a downgrade image with each unit would be simple enough.

My clients are all requesting XP on their notebooks.

By: R Britten

R Britten — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:48:19 +0000

Besides all the other comments about “bloated” etc for the OS, the simple fact is that “V” does not live too comfortably with XP on a 32-bit based network and causes many problems to integrate. We get all our clients to use XP. It’s too time consuming to go the “V” way and raises too many support issues, unless the client can go ahead and replace their complete network, and how often does that happen.