Always a glutton for punishment, Chris Pirillo continues to run Windows Vista. Chris has probably figured out by now that running Vista means dealing with wacky errors, strange behaviors and hardware that refuses to run under Vista. Just this week my boss brought in a CD-R full of pictures that I was able to view on my XP machine but wasn’t visible under Vista. This makes no sense to most people, but is just a way of life for those Vista early adopters.
I don’t hate Windows Vista anymore. It’s just a faint memory now because Windows XP works great 99% of the time. If XP is working well for you, there’s absolutely no reason to upgrade to Vista at any price. Having said that, if you buy a new machine and it comes with Vista, you might enjoy it. Vista includes some nice eye candy and feels polished when the underlying hardware is full supported. But it certainly will not run any faster than XP and may run significantly slower if driver issues exist.
Maybe when Microsoft ships SP1 I’ll decide to try Vista again. But I got burned so badly, I may never upgrade when XP continues to run without a hitch.
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