just cant stand the fact that it supports no hardware at this point, and that it cancelled sound card acceleration.
what a joke, how can there be reasons to get vista if if refuses to detect your graphics card and tv card
and better yet why would you get vista if it bans soundblaster cards
from working! people in computing must realize that you cant apply caveman ideologics to computer software
nor hardware unless you dont want it to work at all..My say is, if your an anarchist get out of the pc buisness.

href=”http://technodigits.wordpress.com/2007/06/17/why-vista-is-better-than-xp/”>Windows Vista VS Windows XP

They include thousands of applications, suites, programs, that can read and write all files in existance since 1986. Like, Microsoft Office files, power point presentations, and Excel sheets.

No, Microsoft Office 2007 can’t do that. Limited to reading Office 2003 files. Some 2000 things come through, wavy…

310 liveCDroms are at http://livecdlist.com that you download for free, burn to CDrom, reboot. They run in RAMdisc. No trace left on the drives.

Upon install, they run upto 50X faster than did Microsoft’s OS.
That might be 500X faster, in the case of Vista!

Install needs about 6Gb of drive space. Yeah, huge. I know. The kernel is really small, and fast.

Many of the things you ‘need’ from Windows are done better in the native apps. or can run in VMware. Look at all the folks switching to GNU/Linux! http://Ubuntu.org is a GNU/Linux. They’ll mail you a disc!

Well, how about 5 reasons why you should get vista.

Here’s what techblog.com had to say.

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/5-reasons-why-you-should-get-vista#more-7736

I have to say, so far I’ve been enjoying the experience, and disagree with a lot of the reasons people list. Many, many of these arguments are parallel to the arguments about switching from 95 to 98, 98 to 2000, 2000 to XP etc. Considering that every XP application I’ve tried so far has worked wonderfully on Vista, and that the UAC can easily be turned off, I’ve been enjoying ‘the small things’ in Vista a ton.

The hardware upgrade requirement is a myth as well, seeing as my 5 year old custom built machine that was midlevel back then can run Vista perfectly, with Aero and everything. A lot of the hardware rumors are perpetuated by overexcited hardware vendors. RAM is one thing that I could use more of, but it runs about as well as XP on the same hardware.

As for innovation, you’re right and wrong at the same time. You’re right in that there is nothing groundshakingly different like the jump from 3.11 to 95, but which Windows OS recently HAS had something major like that? Vista is all about the small things, the nice touches that really, really help out. There’s a lot of new nice little touches that make the OS worth it. (Example: Launch a quicklaunch application with Windows key + #)

I don’t really have much to say about DRM as it hasn’t affected me at all yet, so I’ll just say that while it is an important issue, I don’t think that everything will be as bad as everyone points out that it could be. In otherwords, estimations and examples are overemphasized to make a point rather than a real example.

Just my two cents on why it’s not a terrible thing to switch to Vista.

Installed it on a spare PC, tested it, and uninstalled it.

Now, I’m not a Linux fanboy at all, I used to run Linux on an older PC. It took me one month to get my wireless internet running on Linux, and by then I was so frustrated with it that I reinstalled Windows XP.

But Vista … dang. For me the major reason though is the DRM. Ideologically I oppose DRM completely. The other reasons will fix themself over time, but the DRM is there to stay.

I’m thinking that even after getting Vista (well, after being forced to get it when I build a new PC), I’ll still keep a Windows XP box around for when I need it.