Thread: Quick Question .

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

why?

Anyone else remember Windows "Millennium Edition" (or ME)?

It was brought out as a "gap filler" between the outgoing 98SE, and the yet to be released Windows 2000.

It was absolutely diabolical. So much so, that MS were forced to fast track the release of W2K (which is why it actually released in '99).

XP was released in 2001, and is still available today (albeit increasingly difficult to get hold of). XP is actually not too bad, which is why so many people are sticking with it.
Vista, on the other hand, would appear to be heading in a similar direction to ME, with Microsoft having to fast track the release of "Windows 7", following a stack of complaints from the user community.

It's not only flaky in respect of driver support etc, but is classic MS bloatware, given it's (exorbitant) hardware requirements. The term "Wintel" - coined as an amalgam of Windows and Intel - wasn't invented without reason...)

If you are gunna do comparisons,,
try the Edsel,

absolutely nothing wrong with the car,,
early media anti-hype successfully killed it.

XP had the same problem with drivers, as will ANY first edition software used by 95% of the worlds population,,

you cant keep expecting PC's to run on celerons and 2meg sticks of ram,,
if you dont like it due to media reports, dont use it,,

but dont condemn the ones that are,,

FAR superior to XP IMHO,,

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

If you are gunna do comparisons,,
try the Edsel,

absolutely nothing wrong with the car,,
early media anti-hype successfully killed it.

XP had the same problem with drivers, as will ANY first edition software used by 95% of the worlds population,,

you cant keep expecting PC's to run on celerons and 2meg sticks of ram,,
if you dont like it due to media reports, dont use it,,

but dont condemn the ones that are,,

FAR superior to XP IMHO,,

I think you are being a little disingenuous...XP had nowhere near the issues with Drivers that Vista does. Nor did the user community at large have anywhere near the issues using it that users have had with Vista. XP had something like a 6-odd year run before MS brought out Vista. Vista's been out for ~2 years, and they are already looking at replacing it?

By all means, use it (and subsequent MS OSs) if you're happy to replace your hardware every couple of years.

As an aside, where have I condemned anyone who uses Vista?