nookls wrote:
vista is good, the reason it was such a flop at launch was because of 2 reasons. one was that it was cramped onto 1gb ram pentium 4-esque machines filled with bloatware and the other was bandwagoning. take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojave_Experiment
also, i used windows 2000 on a bloated machine with 64mb ram in 2009 and it actually ran fast as hell
It can be usable, sure, after installing all service packs it's pretty solid, still it's been forgotten and Microsoft just pushed toward 7 release which kinda made vista look like bad OS.
Also, I used win 2000 on old laptop with 128 mb ram and intel pentium 2 ... 500 mhz something? Not sure, I could make coffee while OS was loading, and when i came back it would still load (not even joking), but that could also be bad HDD (it didn't have any bad sectors though).
Either way I don't deny that windows 8 is
good os despite all it's hate. It's loading times (yes i do know why it loads faster, but i also use ssd, it was fast with hdd too), core and everything is just smooth. And metro? I can't even notice it - you just type program of your wish in metro and you get it almost instantly (either if you have indexing on or ssd), you never really have to deal with it.
People sticking to windows xp? ewwww; no comment, use your unsupported OS.