such rubbish. remember when XP came out? there were loads of problems, it didnt become the fine OS you know until SP2. just because people are using it after the release of the newest OS doesnt mean anything
people dont like change. they have used it for 6 years and dont want to mess up their carefully tuned OS's.
you will be in the same position when the next one comes out. clinging to Vista saying the same thing. just because XP is a good operating system (after 6y years of updates) doesnt mean Vista is any less of a system after 1 year.
i prefer it a lot over XP and im very glad i changed.
Not sure if this tirade was aimed at me, but for the record I run Vista and have done ever since an upgrade 6 months ago. Just because I no longer use XP doesn't mean to say that I don't think it's a great OS, however. So the 'position I will be in when the next one comes out' may be slightly different than you perceive. The trouble is with forums like these that people often expect other users to see everything in black&white, picking sides and if they express support for one product it means they must hate the rivals!
The point I was driving at, is that while I am conservative in some regards (e.g. sticking with Windows classic theme), I am NOT adverse to change per se. I got Win2kpro, WindMill and WinXP as soon as they were available, because I wasn't happy with the previous version of Windows. But WinXP was a different kettle of fish, I found it to be highly stable and reliable and I wasn't hunting for the next big thing anymore. It's got nothing to used to me not wanting to change and mess up my tuned OS, it was more a case of me not having any problems with WinXP, for the first time ever. Even if Vista had been released back in 2003 I would have felt the same way.
In the end I made the move to Vista because I owned a DX10 card and was doing a mobo/cpu/ram upgrade so it seemed like a good time to go with the OEM version (given that I wouldn't be doing a major upgrade for a couple of years).
Personally I dispute this myth about XP being overly problematic prior to SP2, sure, some people had issues no doubt but even pre-SP1 I found it superior to Win2kpro and WindMill. Yeah, so driver support was a little shaky from some quarters initially but better from Win2k.
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