I have XP and Vista, and I like Vista better.Do most of the people here on Yahoo answers that complain about vista actually have it, or are they spreading the hype?I mean, every piece of hardware I try is compatible with it, most of the time Vista just installs the driver by itself.The only time that did’nt happen was with a printer, but I just went to the manufacturer’s website and got the new driver and it works perfectly.I don’t know why people are complaining why it is so slow, it works fine with an AMD Athlon X2 5200+ and 2 GB ram, and even works on a single core cpu with 512 mb ram.It has nice features like the media center, which lets you record and pause tv, something that mac doesn’t have built into the os, the areo look and design, and direct x 10, great for gaming.Security?Just get free anti-virus software and a free firewall, and you are protected. (like avg and zonealarm)and contrary to popular belief, macs do get viruses sometimes.So what’s wrong with Vistawho cares about space taken?HD space now is only a few cents a gigabyte.Vista has many more features:Improved windows movie maker, the media center can record HD video, and DX 10 for games.Anyways, Windows Vista Home Premium is cheaper than XP Pro, and includes the media center.Windows Vista Ultimate has the bitlocker drive encryption, and improved backup software (you don’t need to buy anything extra), plus shadow copy, and the windows ultimate extras.In all editions of vista, updating is now more reliable, since it is run as a control panel, instead of a web application.You have readyboost, which increases your memory through a simple flash drive, windows defender, user account control, and now windows firewall monitor outgoing traffic.So my question is, what’s wrong with vista??

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