XP or Vista?

foreversomeday

I only said you were rude because you insisted on posting in bright red, huge CAPS.

Luckily I'm not childish enough to be offended by what you then "deduced" about me based on my experience with Vista so far. But a brand new computer from somewhere like PC World should come with the proper drivers and compatible hardware installed anyway. Not that I'm incapable of finding them myself, but most average computer users wouldn't have the first idea.

mjenn5

I was wondering if the Virtual PC program would make a difference.

I still have XP and would probably need to upgrade my ram etc to put Vista on my machine though I am very intrested in trying it out.

BritBrat

I would stick with XP if you can.

Just bought the OH a new laptop that came with VISTA, basicly it's OK but small things really do get in the way, like taking well over 2 hours to set a printer up over a network, with XP takes 5 mins.

Also opening documents by clicking do not work in offce, well not for us.

I have contacted the manufacture for a XP restore disk, they said its free but what I get I don't know. And there may be harware issues changing from VISTA to XP but I am reading up on it.

wolfman

ormus wrote: »

my advice would be to stick with xp for now. vista still has lots of issues.
some routers wont work with vista cause of security differences.
lots of intranets wont work either. a lot of companies dont see it as a priority to upgrade their networks yet.

What issues?

And what routers does it not work with? A router is completely separate from the operating system, not driver dependant.

Intranets? That doesn't make sense. Vista works fine on a network, home or business. We use it here, and I have used it at home (Linux user now).