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that makes me happy. does it include the speed boost that it lauded so much over vista's sp1?
might have to reboot over to my windoze partition..
inb4 vista haters aka noobs who know nothing about technology
I will just say that Vista is too much of a resource whore and requires too much clicking to accomplish menial tasks by default compared to XP.
Oh yea, and when does this come out?
I bet their will be a sh!t load of bugs with this as with all M$ products but why release it when your kicking XP to the curb anyways in a few months.
i ran xp since it first came out, gathering service packs hotfixes and updates along the way. it truly was the next step in in the evolution of the modern OS. i had just bought a new desktop at couple years prior and it was pre-loaded with Windows ME. it kind of let me down in many ways, one was the 9x series inherent memory problems and poor user-level support. there wasn't much i could do to make the pc perform better. So, when xp came out I installed it on that system and basically took the first step into the next gen, an experience i'll never forget. i saw basically everything about my desktop such as performance and reliability increase substancially, and in many cases found more use out of that desktop than before I had installed xp. i was 16 and the pc world suddenly became very interesting to me.
when the time came to get vista, i didn't hesitate. i longed for the same kind of feeling i had when i first booted up xp. i didnt get in on the beta, however i managed to get Vista RC-1. it was another leap forward, i must say. but the direction they've been taking has always caused people to buy a whole new desktop just to take advantage of the new features. actually, just to get acceptable performance you'd end up spending more money.
to summarize, i could live without vista. but xp, THAT i couldn't live without. i've got it preinstalled on my new laptop, and have tried to get xp back again. but it doesn't even see my hdds, so i have to work around it somehow.