Poll: Windows OS Survey

[Morrey360]

xp pro for me

 

[Admiral Huddy]

Interesting survey.. will keep an eye on this one.

Vista 64 Ultimate on main rig.

XP Pro on the workshop PC and Vista 32 premium on the test!

 

[MarcLister]

XP Pro 32-bit SP2 OEM etc etc

 

[allllec]

Vista ultimate x64 on my main rig
Vista home basic x86 on the family laptop

 

[MarcLister]

Vista ultimate x64 on my main rig
Vista home basic x86 on the family laptop

How come only Vista Home Basic on the laptop? Did it come pre-installed?

 

[WotDa]

XP Pro.

If I could vote more than once, I'd vote for the fanboy-war option too. I see no reason for a non Windows option in a Windows poll though.

 

[allllec]

How come only Vista Home Basic on the laptop? Did it come pre-installed?

Yeah Its a £299 fujitsu seimens jobbie. (512mb of ram etc) Its only for the mother so little point in buying a licence for anything else, although I wouldn't mind media center (as thats the laptops second role).

 

[MarcLister]

How well does it run then? Would have thought Vista would want a little more than 512Mb RAM? I have a rubbish laptop at home running XP on 512Mb and it is awful.

 

[jeffa123]

I was a bit confused by the question. I run Vista 32bit and 64 bit premium as well as Ultimate premium on one PC. I have windows Server 2008 on another along with Vista Enterprise Edition. So the only logical answer I could give is windows Vista. Obviously I wasn't happy with one version I wanted to try them all. I even have an OEM version of Premium kicking about somewhere. All legit and nothing untoward.
There is only one reason for having them all and that is the fact that they interogate the hardware better than this version of windows and has a media centre built in as well as some security protocols that were only available on server systems before. The only dislike is the Virtual registry and bad diagnostics given in DX10.

 

[allllec]

It's fine. Plays movies (720p) over wireless just fine, does word processing and web browsing fine. Wouldn't want to do much more than that however!

Just well maintained, no crap and no AV makes a big difference

 

[Duke]

XP Pro but might swap to Vista when SP1 is out.

 

[Cosimo]

The vote after 141 votes is:

XP 38%
VISTA 60%
OTHER 2%

 

[MarcLister]

The vote after 141 votes is:

XP 38%
VISTA 60%
OTHER 2%

 

[Cosimo]

and the 32/64 split after 141 votes is:

XP

32 - 36%
64 - 2%

VISTA

32 - 21%
64 - 39%

 

[MarcLister]

Sounds about right. XP x64 was pretty much a waste of time with hardware vendors barely bothering to produce x64 drivers when Vista was just around the corner.

Wouldn't the numbers add up to 100%? By my maths 36+2+21+39=98%.

 

[Cosimo]

Wouldn't the numbers add up to 100%? By my maths 36+2+21+39=98%.

Only when you add the 2% that are too cool to use windows

 

[Will_3rd]

Win XP Home on my PC

 

[MarcLister]

Only when you add the 2% that are too cool to use windows

Why are we bothering with them?

 

[Cosimo]

To produce a fair and accurate picture say no more.....

 

[MarcLister]

Meh.