Like having obsolete hardware not fit to run Vista? Protip; this thread is about someone with a machine that comes with Vista; wanting to ruin it with XP.
Inconsequential to the point at hand. And yes, Vista uses more memory - get this, right, Windows XP? It uses more memory than Windows Me! Golly gosh, a more recent OS that takes advantage of changing hardware standards? What an idea.
Really. Tell me about all the DX10 rendering you do in games? Seems like a pretty serious software deficiency right there. And how is it installing SATA drivers from floppy drive at boot time? And being able to burn to DVDR's without additional software? Add to that the fact that any malware runs as administrator immediately under XP without user intervention and it's easy to see which is the less compatible and stable OS.
"For quite some time" meaning "Until July 2010", btw. And even then, we're in the "extended support" era meaning no updates or functionality; just hotfixes.
Of course Microsoft is going to increase memory usage by operating systems but not by FOUR TIMES WHAT THE PREVIOUS VERSION REQUIRED look at this trend. 16 bit Windows 4 MB minimum, Windows 95 8 MB minimum, Windows 98 16 MB minimum, Windows ME 32 MB minimum, Windows XP 64 MB minimum, Windows Vista 512 MB minimum. Also, not everyone is a die hard gamer and even then Direct X 10 is not used in too many games or applications that the average person would use. Also, this is with a DESKTOP COMPUTER which uses IDE controllers and SATA controllers are on LAPTOPS ONLY and there is such a thing as watch what you download which is to use common sense In other words don't click on the big flashing banner ads for free anti-virus, anti-spyware, or other no name programs which promise to do quite a bit for nothing. Well, that was the case with CD-R and CD-RW discs in Windows 98 and also Windows ME you were required to install aditional software but even then it came with the drive most of the time so that was not much of a big deal. And Windows Vista stable? I don't think so I personally have a laptop which was designed for Windows Vista and it was pre loaded as well but despite this I have seen the BSoD at least a dozen times in one day before SP1 came out and there was really nothing I could do about it as well since it was a hardware/driver compatibility problem with a Broadcom 802.11g card. Not only that I also remember being booted off the internet when using wifi even if my signal strength was at its maximum and a reboot was required in order to restore my internet connection which was caused by the same thing and again it was before SP1 came out. These problems got so bad that I just quit using my laptop for almost everything on the internet until well, SP1 came out which fixed that issue and it has not turned up since. As for the Windows XP machine I have yet to see a BSoD on it and given its current state along with the fact that I download programs from the internet responsibly on it along with my Windows Vista laptop it will stay that way.
