The difference is that there's competition this time around. Apple was still trying to figure out what they were doing, and Linux barely ran on servers.

People gave up and moved to XP because they had no choice. Now they do.

Yes, you are right brother.

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History repeats itself.

I don't care which os I have as long as I can do everything I need on it.

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There are similarities, but I wouldn't say it's the same thing.

I don't know about you, but when me and my brother got to try XP, we decided to stick with 98/Me because XP it was still too glitchy, and didn't have enough advantages to compensate for it's instability. As Service packs were released, along with many other "fixes", the O.S. became stable, and worth upgrading to.

Back then, there weren't that many issues with XP, it just wasn't worth the money, time and hassle it took to "upgrade" it mostly... Now, however, Vista is a complete bag of failure - As of now -. The compatibility sucks a big fat cocksicle, it's a ram sink, seems to mess up the most basic of programs that weren't built specifically for vista "from the ground" all of that on top of the same problem XP had ("just not worth it") all in favor of a new look Macintosh has been using for years...

In time, however, If Microsoft has any sense, they'll fix the crappy thing, user hardware will inevitably be upgraded with time, and Vista's ram eating properties will become less and less significant, and eventually we'll all move on.

However, as of now, Vista can fuck right off because I'd only use it as a frisbee or coaster...

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The only difference - and it is significant - is this:

XP bought tangible performance and architectural benefits to the table. M$ finally had realized that there was something else out there other than Intel and XP incorporated that. As a tech for some 18 years, I can honestly say that I cannot find ONE worthwhile reason in terms of performance to move to Vista and the single architectural benefit - that of moving device drivers out of the kernel - is offset by the myriad performance sucking "enhancements", useless services (media streaming server???) and eye candy that litter this OS. The stability issues are yet another issue - XP out of the box behaved far better.

Wait for Windows 7 - perhaps M$ will have learned a lesson by then.

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The beginning for the end for XP, like every other operating system they have their breaking points, in this case, XP is reaching its breaking point

And how is it reaching it's breaking point? It's more stable, it's fast (certainly faster than its so-called "replacement") and users who tried that replacement are migrating back to the one that actually works.

From where I'm sitting, the replacement isn't breaking - it's broken. M$ did their job TOO well - and now the flash and dash just ain't cutting it because there's no substance to it.

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I agree with you, but you know
XP is more customization os against other os system like
Vista or Mac.

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Thank you, I was thinking that to, See my XP is on the blink, slow loading, dead pixels, failing graphics card, I really need a new computer, but I don't know which one, I mean Macs are easier But i'm very familiar with windows both XP and vista, so it's a constant tug-o-war.