Saturday, October 27, 2007
Microsoft to "brick" XP with SP3?
The one participant in this discussion to use Vista said they were planning on switching back to XP. John then brought up the coming SP3 for XP which will bring a bunch of the security and other features of Vista to XP.
A large part of the security of Vista is directed at the user by asking them if they are really sure they want to take some action. It can be very annoying and (with help from other "features") generally slows things down. I'm running Vista Premium on a dual-core machine with 2.5 GB of RAM. With some tweaking, I've gotten it to run almost as fast as the single processor XP machines with 1 GB: On most days.
With both XP and Vista I've sacrificed some of the visual effects for performance but there are some features of Vista I'd like to see in XP. But the one "feature" of Vista I don't want to see in XP is the heavy requirements on memory.
I'll be taking a hard look at SP3 before I deploy it broadly. ¶ 10/27/2007 04:27:00 PM
A large part of the security of Vista is directed at the user by asking them if they are really sure they want to take some action. It can be very annoying and (with help from other "features") generally slows things down. I'm running Vista Premium on a dual-core machine with 2.5 GB of RAM. With some tweaking, I've gotten it to run almost as fast as the single processor XP machines with 1 GB: On most days.
With both XP and Vista I've sacrificed some of the visual effects for performance but there are some features of Vista I'd like to see in XP. But the one "feature" of Vista I don't want to see in XP is the heavy requirements on memory.
I'll be taking a hard look at SP3 before I deploy it broadly. ¶ 10/27/2007 04:27:00 PM
