Win XP Vs Vista

Six months after its release, how many people do you think use Windows Vista compared to Windows XP?

In terms of Internet Browsing do you think more people use Windows vista or Mac OS X?

To find out the results according to my website statistics click below to see the results.

It looks like it's going to take a long time to win over Windows XP users and for them to upgrade to Windows Vista...

Comments

[quik]

yay, I make up 3%

[Darren]

I'm not sure your other half would agree with such a mathematical statement!

I'd forgotten that you installed Vista. How have you found it? I suppose your brand new PC would hide the slower performance vs XP?

[quik]

I have had no problems with Vista. I have it on 2 machines now. My main machine and my media centre box. Performance wise its not bad, not as good as XP. More than anything it is just flashy.

Oh and it eats memory. A clean install, when idle uses 630mb of memory.

Drivers were the biggest pain in the arse. I ended up buying a new modem and bodging a few other bits. Still a few issues with a couple of other work apps.

[Darren]

But are the flash looks worth it? That's a ton of memory it's using! Are there really any killer features apart from a new interface?

What's the spec of the slower of your two machines that you have Vista running on? Is your media centre running standard Vista?

Yeah, the driver issue is a bit of a pain isn't it. I'm glad you've got it all set up and working.

[quik]

So far its just flashy, there are no killer apps. Although, DX10 is suppose to be Vista only. And as new games go down the DX10 route it will force upgrades.

Slower machine is a P4 3gig, 2gb Ram, 500gb HD and 256mb gfx card. And both machines are running Vista Ultimate edition. This machine runs really well and had fewer issues than my Vista Ready and compliant new PC I built

[Lee]

One thing I fear is that vista will stop some of my favourite utils from running.

I have some of those little freeware tools that aren't in developement any more so there'll be no chance of them being fixed to work with vista.

[Darren]

Lee, you always were one for little utilities. I'm not sure what you need them for. Actually, I'm not even sure what they do!

Macros/scripts?

[Lee]

Small but useful things that take up hardly any space or memory compared to mainstream and commercial alternatives.

Things like reminder alerts, file renamers (got one that I use to convert JP chars into the romanised equivalent), music taggers, Spacemonger (to visually see where my space has gone), file unlocker ("file in use by another program" and you don't know how or why because you've closed everything!), Bandwidth meters/managers, etc.

Didn't you use that one that measures bandwidth between 6pm and 12am only?