Hello:

I have compared features of windows vista to those of win xp and have realized that 
 except for 3D windows, nothing else is new - or at least, my pc does the same with 
some extra freeware:

Transparent windows = vitrite
New task switch = TaskSwitchXP
Gadgets = yahoo!Widgets
and so on... not to say IE7 can be replaced by FireFox2.

Better start menu? Well, I don't like MS  programs organization, so I have my own:
start->Programs->10 software categories: 
1.Documents (office), 
2.file handling (compressor, download manager), 
3.Development (IDEs)
4.Games
5.Safety
6.Multimedia 
7.Tweaks
8.Servers (html/FTP/MySQL)
9.Hardware utils.
10.Others 

I think it's enough for me

More security? I have comodo firewall, Sistem Safety Monitor and SpyBot.

A powerfull search engine? I can also look for files with a key word with standar 
win xp search function!

So, why would you advice me to upgrade to WinVista? 

(Note I have just bought a new PC but it was some weeks before the upgrade program, 
so an upgrade would cost despite I have just paid for XP!)

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re: Is Vista a 3D-XP? Monday, December 4, 2006 at 5:42 pm Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (6749 messages posted) As far as I can tell, no one posting to this forum is trying to advise or persuade anyone to upgrade to Vista. However, I think that if you happened to have purchased your PC a few weeks later, you would have received a free or low cost upgrade coupon and might have a different opinion about whether you'd be upgrading to Vista. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Is Vista a 3D-XP? Monday, December 4, 2006 at 5:52 pm Posted by Manuel S. (5 messages posted) >As far as I can tell, no one posting to this forum is trying to advise or persuade anyone to upgrade to Vista. >However, I think that if you happened to have purchased your PC a few weeks later, >you would have received a free or low cost upgrade coupon and might have a different >opinion about whether you'd be upgrading to Vista. Thanks for your answer, actually I bought the PC some weeks before the upgrade program, so I am not candidate. And the point is not persuading the upgrade but asking WHAT are the REAL ADVANTAGES of VISTA over XP? Thanks again... [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Is Vista a 3D-XP? Wednesday, December 6, 2006 at 4:44 pm Posted by David (20 messages posted) My experience has been very positive with Vista. Primarily, on a 1 gig machine, running an AMD Turion X2, I get much quicker load times on everything, from the OS on up. The frills are fun but sort of meaningless. But I truly notice a performance boost. And this is on a dual boot system (XP and Vista) so it is very simple to do side by side comparisons. If my experience is true for all, then I would recommend it for that reason alone. On Monday, December 4, 2006 at 5:52 pm, Manuel S. wrote: > >>As far as I can tell, no one posting to this forum is trying to advise or persuade >anyone to upgrade to Vista. >>However, I think that if you happened to have purchased your PC a few weeks later, >>you would have received a free or low cost upgrade coupon and might have a different >>opinion about whether you'd be upgrading to Vista. > >Thanks for your answer, actually I bought the PC some weeks before the upgrade program, >so I am not candidate. And the point is not persuading the upgrade but asking WHAT >are the REAL ADVANTAGES of VISTA over XP? >Thanks again... [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Is Vista a 3D-XP? Monday, December 11, 2006 at 11:05 am Posted by Jan Eskildsen (2 messages posted) In Vista you will have the new format XPS, which is paginated XML. XPS is much smaller files, that can be viewed by others with a XPS Viewer, and at the same time you'll be able to make text searches in all your collegues' files via MS Sharepoint. Most printer manufacturers will brag and scream about their XPS compatible printers in a few weeks. Some of them have already done so a year ago. Wait and see. Or take look here: http://www.globalgraphics.com - or here - http://www.okiprintingsolutions.com/pr_microsoft_xps.html best regards Jan On Monday, December 4, 2006 at 5:42 pm, Dan Sarandrea, MCSE wrote: >As far as I can tell, no one posting to this forum is trying to advise or persuade >anyone to upgrade to Vista. > >However, I think that if you happened to have purchased your PC a few weeks later, >you would have received a free or low cost upgrade coupon and might have a different >opinion about whether you'd be upgrading to Vista. www.globalgraphics.com www.okiprintingsolutions.com [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Is Vista a 3D-XP? Monday, December 11, 2006 at 11:13 am Posted by Jan Eskildsen (2 messages posted) Sorry for my mistake in making the links, but I'm new to this site. Hopefully you find the right link GlobalGraphics.com and then you can search for OKI XPS in Google, then you will be much wiser in a few minutes. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Is Vista a 3D-XP? Monday, December 11, 2006 at 1:37 pm Posted by PrinceMyshkin (6 messages posted) Vista has loads of bells and whistles. To my mind they are mostly quite useless and sometimes even annoying. Who needs all those hyperactive graphics? I'm sure if I got a faster machine than my 1.3 GHz Celeron, I would find it faster. But it is actually slower to load and slower to do anything than my XP, which all the upgrades I did for Vista's sake made much faster. I also run a dual boot machine. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Is Vista a 3D-XP? Monday, December 18, 2006 at 3:17 pm Posted by SjW (5 messages posted) Stability and speed I would say. At the moment. I have been using Vista for 8 months or so now through betas to RTM and I have saw 1 blue screen. And I use this thing for about 14hrs a day. Betas and RC's aside, it is much faster than XP was on this laptop in terms of boot and certain programs loading. Sure there are no killers apps as such, but XP will soon slide into the position that 98 did when XP started to kick in - it won't be quite as quick a slide, as Vista and XP are both NT based meaning there aren't massive core fundamental differences, but applications and utilities that are Vista only will start to make an appearance. It's the way it is going to go, so why not do it now if you can? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Is Vista a 3D-XP? Sunday, January 28, 2007 at 6:48 am Posted by 666 (2253 messages posted) Manuel S. wrote: So, why would you advice me to upgrade to WinVista? I wouldn't. If your computer runs on batteries, the hybrid standby/hibernation feature is one of the very few reasons to put Vista on it. I wouldn't upgrade to Vista for it because the sleep mode doesn't work properly on every machine I tried. But if you buy a new laptop with sleepmode-conscious hardware you might want to use Vista to wake up your computer a tiny little bit faster once in a while. Check if it really works before buying. I wouldn't hurry, though. There's plenty of software that doesn't work properly with Vista. I'm not gonna replace dozens of apps just because of a new OS. ______________ make xp behave [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum