This article has been posted before. I still call bunk on it.
First off it is evolution. Vista is the new OS. Get over it. XP could not last forever. Every OS developer stops selling and supporting their old OS's at some point. XP's time was due. It is already 7 years old. Time to move on.
2nd Vista is not still incompatible with software. That is utter garbage. I can run everything on Vista just as i could in XP. I can run it on Server 2008 which has much of the same Kernel as Vista. Funny how i can run all my applications in Server when they say they are not compatible.
3rd XP is just not being sold anymore by OEM's. You can still buy it retail for some more time. So spend the extra few $$ and get Retail versions while you can.
4th XP will still be supported till 2014. So you do not have to upgrade your PC. You can keep the same one till long after Windows 7 gets released and upgrade then. There is no one forcing anyone to upgrade to Vista now. That is upon the users who think that Microsoft is forcing them when they are not. They can still buy every part to a Pc and built the PC themselves and install a Retail copy of XP. Where is there does it say that users can not run XP anymore? It doesnt.
5th Vista is not still buggy. There are many things about Vista that i personally do not like. No Repair option, Drivers must be WHQL Certified to run right. But you can still force isntall drivers that are not WHQL certified. How do i know? I am running a set of those drivers right now on my install. So that i can fold using my GPU. So they still work. Have not had a crash yet. Sorry another myth.
All in all this article is just a personal opinion and a person who is scared by moving on past XP. RAM is cheap now compared to what it was just 5 years ago. I have a DDR2 system and i remember spending well over $200 on a 1GB Pair of RAM Chips to run in Dual Channel mode. Can get that same set now for less than $50. Again i return to the fact that you do not have to buy a new system. Upgrade the current one you have. Will cost you a fraction of hte price and you can still run your precious XP.
Vista is not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. There are well over 20% of the users who run Windows running Vista and of that there is maybe 2% getting anywhere near these types of issues that you read about. If the error percentage is even that high.
Granted 2% of 20% is high but this is all caused by user errors trying to force Vista to do something that it can not. I have had maybe 5 more crashes on Vista than i have on XP. All were my fault. Vista will work. Vista does work. But when you try to run software that is out of date or not updated to run on Vista you will get issues. This is not the fault of Microsoft. This is the fult of the software developers not updating their software to run on Vista. The same can be said of the drivers. Again not Microsoft's fault. Yet Microsoft gets the blame and Vista gets bad reviews cause developers have not made the effort to get their stuff working on Vista.
All in all Vista is not that bad. It cant do everything that XP can. But then again when XP was released it couldnt do much of htis stuff either and people were complaining about XP cause it was not windows 98SE. The same thing will happen when Windows 7 comes out.
I am tired of all these articles placing the blame where it doesnt belong. Vista is not to blame. the software developers and driver developers are. I am done trying to make this point. This is my last post to this effect. It is tiring trying to show how all these articles are wrong on so many levels.
Peace out.
Mak