Why upgrade to Vista?
Windows Vista has been mired in a lot of controversy since it was released. The short answer to the question posited in the title of this post is no. But in an effort to help you understand why I’ll spend a little longer and explain why.
1. Vista doesn’t offer anything compelling (other than shiny graphics) to you when compared to XP.
2. The shiny new graphics from Vista, the only thing that most users will consider upgraded, eat up a lot of your CPU. Forget about playing games or anything else that’s graphic intensive unless you have a top of the line (expensive) machine to run Vista.
3. Most IT departments aren’t switching to Vista, if a company with an IT department refuses to make the switch, you shouldn’t either.
4. Vista isn’t compatible with a lot of the drivers currently written for your peripherals. Forget about your 3 year old printer working with it even though all you had to do was plug it into your XP machine and click print.
5. Vista has an annoying user access control popup every time you install something. I recognize that this is Microsofts attempt at making Vista more secure than previous versions of Windows. But it all it does is annoy most users since they don’t have the computer savvy to know that they shouldn’t allow program asdfrsrefdsf.exe to run when they’re trying to install a program.
6. Vista is expensive. Really all upgrades on Windows are expensive so save yourself the time and money.
7. Most computer manufacturers still let you buy a machine from them with XP on it, if you can get it that way you should.
8. Microsoft is going to continue support for XP well into the release of Windows 7. You can continue to get updates and patches for XP for a long time, there’s no compelling reason to make the switch.
There’s 8 pretty good reasons to stay with XP, if you can think of anymore let me know.
