Windows XP Versus Vista

[the-bruce]

Hi guys i'm just curious to see what operating systems folk use here ...


Brucey

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[tboorman]

I use both Windows Vista and XP.

[Reines]

Vista Ultimate SP1 on my desktop, XP Pro SP3 on my laptop, Ubuntu Server 8.10 on my server.

I actually much prefer Vista over XP (takes a little getting used to though).

[Jaggies]

I chose "other" - I have 3 desktops and 2 laptops connected, 2 of the desktops are using RISC OS 4 and RISC OS 5, one dual booting between XP Pro and Ubuntu. Both laptops are on XP Home.

[David]

XP64 SP2 on my desktop, XP86 SP3 on my laptop.

[RND]

I actually wouldnt want to go back to XP now.

[roseway]

I certainly wouldn't want to go back to Windows now. :)

[timeout]

I use Vista, XP, Server 2008 and Linux.

VMWare is such a great OS enabler :D

[JamesL]

OS X and sometimes XP if my PC is working.

[Joedavid]

Both PCs and Laptop XP SP3
With 1 of the PC I have a Vista upgrade disc but frightened I not like having one different, also present system is OK. " If it an't broke ......"

[2Beers]

desktop pc running vista 64bit ultimate and 1 laptop running vitsta home premium and 1 laptop running XP

[Dae]

Had to choose "other" here:

1x XP Pro Desktop (P4 3Ghz/2GB/320GB)
1x XP Pro Laptop (P3 1Ghz/1GB/120GB)
1x Vista Home Premium Laptop (c2d 1.5Ghz/2GB/160GB)

1x Ubuntu (Intrepid) Desktop (P4 3.6Ghz/2GB/250GB) [just recently upgraded from Hardy]
1x Debian (Etch) File Server (P3 1.4GHz/2Gb/1x 80GB & 3x 320GB)
1x Acer AA1 (Atom 1.6Ghz/1.5Gb/120Gb) [currently running Linpus, soon to be running Ubuntu netbook remix]

and as of last week:

1x OSX Leopard eMac (G4 1.42Ghz/2GB/500GB, DVD-RW) [heavily upgraded!]

A "collector of antiques" as you can see, but it all still runs perfectly well ;)

[the-bruce]

A "collector of antiques" as you can see, but it all still runs perfectly well ;)

lol i'm the same m8 :D second hand pc's nowadays aren't worth selling ...

Brucey

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[The Villan]

Although I use Vista on two PC's and 1 laptop, I have just ordered an INTEL DUAL CORE 2.4, 4 gig RAM, Removable Samsung HD 320GB
XP Pro SP3 with original disc.
Why
Becuase my wife uses translation tools as she is a translator, and she is constantly switching between these apps which do not use RAM as they are similar to a Database or accounting package. I find Vista is such a pain, when it doesn't like a particular app and I dont want those flippin dialogue boxes checking if they can access this and that.
She is using XP at the moment, so no point in switching if the only thing that neeeds fixing is a faster machine.

[linker3000]

I'm in the support dept for our company so:

Approx 20 x WIN NT4 (the ones that give us the least trouble!)
Approx 4 x Win98se
Approx 30 x Win2000 (incl Win2000 Server / Win 2003 server)
Approx 30 x WinXP
EXACTLY(!!) 4 x Vista
2 x THEOS
13 x CentOS Linux
1 x Fedora Linux

Sorry to bugger up the poll Brucey!

[smartybones]

the poll needed a option for multiple selections....

various machines runing a spread of xp, 2k, 2k adv server and a test machine with v7 on !!!

[Berwhale]

Main PC - Vista Ultimate 64bit
Server - Windows Server 2008 64bit
Storage Server - FreeNAS (FreeBSD 6.3) - 32bit
Wife's Laptop - Vista Home 32bit
Spare Laptop - Unbuntu 8.10 32bit
Another spare laptop - Windows XP SP3

[atsw]

Wife's Desktop PC - Vista Home Premium 32bit
Son's Desktop PC - Vista Home Premium 32bit
My Laptop (work) - Vista Business 32bit

Daughter's Desktop - Windows XP SP3
Son's Laptop - Windows XP SP3
My Spare Laptop - Windows XP SP3
My Spare Desktop - Windows XP SP3

Wow, 7 computers in one small house, no wonder I spend all my time sat in front of a screen!

Andrew

[dioon]

First desktop: FreeBSD 7.0 + Ubuntu 8.10
Second desktop: Debian 4.0r3 + Windows XP Home
Laptop: DesktopBSD 1.6

Laptop came with Vista installed,but I did not like it one little bit.

[RND]

My desktop PC: Vista Home Premium 64-bit
Mum's desktop PC: XP Home SP2
Dad's desktop PC: Vista Home Premium 32-bit
Family laptop: Vista Home Premium 32-bit