What's the difference between Vista and windows 7?

What exactly do you like about XP over Windows 7?

Windows 7 is faster, more efficient, more stable, more supported.

As for Windows 7 not lasting long, it's lasted long enough, it's being around a fair few years now, Windows XP was abnormally long in terms of a Microsoft operating system lifespan.

As far 7's "heavy resource demand", well, Windows 7 is not heavy on resources to be honest, and unless you're using 64bit Windows XP, you won't even use all of 4gb of that.

 

Windows Xp is just easier to use, I build allot of computers for clients and 80% want me to install Windows XP on them.. XP Is faster and lighter than windows 7, you know that Windows 7 is just Vista with eye candy right ?Windows 7 is not more stable than XP... More supported, Yea !!! because they will be fading it out..
LIFE SPAN , You think Windows 7 will have a life span as long as XP has had ???? Windows 8 is all ready out, RESOURCES, Windows 7 takes allot more ram just to push it, between 2 to 4 gigs to make it happy... Check your hard drive space, and check the difference between the two..and in closing I also said it is just a matter of what one prefers..In other wards it is just my opinion....

 

I think your information is flawed, Windows 8 is not already out, it is a leaked pre-beta......

No, Microsoft do not want Windows 7 to have a lifecycle as long as Windows XP, they want to make money and also develop their software. Windows XP had an abnormally long lifecycle, as I said in my last post.

Windows 7 is not just Vista with eye candy, Vista had eye candy, that's complete rubbish, Windows 7 uses less memory, in fact, on my system Windows 7 uses the same amount of memory on fresh install as Windows XP did.

Windows XP is slower, after time the operating system slows down, the likelihood of a BSOD is higher in Windows XP, Windows 7 is rock solid never really slows down. In fact, due to superfetch Windows 7 should get faster over time.

I don't think HDD space matters to be honest, disk space is very cheap to buy, if you're building a computer for a client, you'd not be sticking an 80gb HDD in, more likely a 320gb or higher.

I think 80% of your clients want you to install Windows XP because they're computer novices, uneducated, some may have not heard of Windows 7, some may be scared of "change", Windows 7 is easily more usable than Windows XP.

It's fair play when people talk about Windows Vista vs XP and why they want to stick with XP, I went back and forth between those myself as settled with Windows XP until Windows 7 came out, but when that happened, I could find no logical reason to stick with Windows XP, it is understandable for companies, when they want to upgrade all of their computers they have to buy a volume license and the cost can be very high, some companies cannot afford this so it's their only choice to stick with Windows XP.

 

You are right Windows 8 is not out yet to YOU !!! I have had it now for Months... Windows 7 is built from a Vista platform...Windows Xp will run happy on 1 gig of ram when you will need at least 2 gigs to run windows 7 to make it happy... But that is 32 bit only, 64 bit is another story.. I have built hundreds of computers ,and I put in the hard drive the customer asks for, What ever they ask for a 80 gb or a 1 TB, it is no matter.. Dude , I have windows 7 in 4 of my computers and windows XP in the other 6. So Like I said before IT is just a matter of CHOICE...

 

No, Windows 8 is not out to you, you've being running a developer preview, I've had it for months also. Windows 7 runs happy on 1GB of ram.

 

OK ! If you say so Buddy ... Merry Christmas to you as well ...

 

No problem.

 

This is one of the difference between windows 7 and vista

 

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