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How to stop worrying about Vista and learn to love XP
by Jordan Running Jul 13th 2006 at 12:15PM
Worried about how you're going to come up with the cash not only to buy Windows Vista when it comes out sometime next year, but also to upgrade your computer so it can run the thing? Well, stop it. InformationWeek is running an article called How to Stay Happy With Windows XP, which examines how longer Microsoft will support its current OS, how much money you can save by not switching to Vista, how cheap a great XP box can be, and how you can get some of Vista's features without Vista itself. Whether motivated by fear or budget, non-switchers will find this article valuable.
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Peter said 5:34PM on 7-13-2006
What do people have against Vista? There wasn't this kind of hatred against XP with everyone saying "I'm not going to switch. Windows 2000 is good enough for me."
Yes, the hardware requirements are a bit stiffer than normal, but you can easily run it on lower end hardware if you don't want/need Aero. You can say you are happy with XP on a P3 and 128 Megs of RAM, but you know you're not. New hardware is so absurdly cheap, why not just get Vista the next time you update your hardware.?
No one is saying you have to rush out and buy Vista to upgrade your existing system. Almost no one does that anyway, everyone gets their OS when they buy new hardware.
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