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Originally Posted by beedubaya  Microsoft would be making a major mistake cutting backwards compatibility from Windows 7. One of the #1 complaints about Vista is its not backwards compatible enough. I think MS should keep some of the things they did right in Vista, like the Aero interface. They should make it more memory efficient, fix the slow IO problems (its better in SP1 but still not perfect), and overall more budget PC friendly. Most people buy cheap $299 desktop bundles or $399 laptops, and Windows needs to scale down to run acceptable on that type of hardware. I think a large reason Vista is bashed so much is because people expect it to run faster than XP on their cheap laptop with 512MB of RAM, but that just isn't the case. |
But hardware has changed a bit in the last few years compared to previous years. "cheap $299 desktop bundles" nowadays are a lot more powerful than those a few years ago. An e2180 and 2gb of DDR2 5300 is plenty to run vista just fine....whereas back in the day 256mb ram was never really sufficient for win 2k or XP in my opinion.