Vista 64 bit or Windows XP x64 edition ? Royston H 13.07.2007 22:20:02 My 120 days of eval are nearly up. I have found the XP 64 bit version of windows the most stable and reliable version of Windows I've ever used and have had only one BSOD when I was overclocking my graphics card, so not really a microsoft o/s issue. I mainly use the computer for office applications, photoshop, video editing and playing FSX. Given that I can get an OEM copy of Vista 64 bit for less than the OEM 64bit XP pro, I am likely to run with Vista. I'd like to hear from people who have used both in anger and see if any valid arguements exist for sticking with XP, say it's considerably more stable etc, given that long term the future is with vista anyway. Thanks Royston H

Re: Vista 64 bit or Windows XP x64 edition ? "Sam Crawford" <sam[ at ]somewhere.com> 13.07.2007 22:50:19 On 13-Jul-2007, =?Utf-8?B?Um95c3RvbiBI?= <RoystonH[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] > I'd like to hear from people who have used both in anger and see if any > valid arguements exist for sticking with XP, say it's considerably more > stable etc, given that long term the future is with vista anyway. How's this for waffleing. You will be happy with either. I've used both and last night, finally wiped all my drives and installed Vista. I'm going to miss XP x64 though.

Re: Vista 64 bit or Windows XP x64 edition ? Royston H 13.07.2007 23:18:04 OK I take your point :-) I did stick with Windows 2000 till SP2 came out for XP on the grounds of stability Thanks "Sam Crawford" wrote: [Quoted Text] > > On 13-Jul-2007, =?Utf-8?B?Um95c3RvbiBI?= > <RoystonH[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > > I'd like to hear from people who have used both in anger and see if any > > valid arguements exist for sticking with XP, say it's considerably more > > stable etc, given that long term the future is with vista anyway. > > How's this for waffleing. You will be happy with either. I've used both > and last night, finally wiped all my drives and installed Vista. > > I'm going to miss XP x64 though. >

RE: Vista 64 bit or Windows XP x64 edition ? Denise 14.07.2007 00:56:01 I'm considering reformatting my hard drive to get rid of XP Pro X64 and going back to a 32-bit system. Too many programs aren't compatible with X64. iexplore 64-bit is installed but Microsoft makes iexplore 32-bit the default because 64-bit doesn't work. Moving and copying files is very slow and, when I Googled this problem, it seems a number of people have the same problem. To me, it looks like X64 was introduced to the market in order to recoup the research money put into it but with full knowledge that it has a lot of kinks that need to be worked out. I don't know anything about Vista, but I'm going to wait a few years in order to see what Microsoft does with it, or if Microsoft moves on to something else. -- Denise ~ If you don't know where you came from, you won't know where you're going.