Jacks Tech Corner

Sometimes I just know how to call them. It turns out that Vista is going to go away just like Windows ME did.

I like it for it's looks, but like everyone always says looks are only desktop deep. Maybe Windows 7 will be a hit? Until they make Windows do something that XP will not do then it will be XP for me and our school for years to come.

Would it be a good idea then to switch to OSX or Linux?

I hope to hear from some of you on this topic.

I reckon your right with Vista, seems to be a stop-gap with MSFT to earn more money.

There's so many little issues with this that my experience with it for the last 5months or so have been tenuous, it's heavy and slow and takes ages to finish booting after you login, issues with the sidebar cause me endless issues.

I have a friend who has Vista on a laptop and hates it too.

To be honest your right that Vista doesn't really do anything extra that XP can't do, and with the hardware I bought I think would be better to go back to XP as MSFT are going to keep supporting that for at least 3 years, the only drawback is the maximum memory that XP can support which is 3GB so depending upon the app you want to use you might struggle there.

As the voices for Windows 7 are being louder than Vista, does make me think that MSFT haven't really been upfront but I hope that for the £100 I spent on Vista Ultimate that i get a considerable discount for Windows 7 whenever thst shows its face.

For schools I would think that XP will do everything you need for at least the next 10 years bar most hi-tech look how long Windows 3.1 stayed in Schools and Universities.

Personally as another friend said many years back MSFT should release Windows ona chip so no loading is required and would run super super fast, who knows perhaps one day that will become a reality.

I am glad that you agree and it turns out we were right. Vista is dead and welcome to Windows 7 which is 500% better in every way. You did make a slight mistake in saying XP only supports 3GIG ram. This is because you are running the 32 Bit version. If you install the 64 bit version you can read up to I think 32 GIG of ram. This will hold true on Windows 7. We have found that the 32 Bit version will read 3.5 GIG.

If you load the 64 bit version expect to spend some time looking for drivers and watch your software to ensure that it will work with 64 bit.

Thanks for writing in and it is always nice to hear someone elses view.

Jack