(August 18, 2008)
Statistics gathered by Devil Mountain Software indicate that nearly 35 percent of new PCs have been downgraded from Vista to Windows XP. Microsoft's end-user licensing agreement allows users who have purchased Vista Business and Vista Ultimate to downgrade to Windows XP Professional; those who purchased Vista Enterprise are permitted to downgrade to XP. Devil Mountain Software operates the exo.performance.network.
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[Editor's Note (Pscatore): I know it is popular to bash Vista, but from a security perspective, this is pretty silly. Delaying upgrading to Vista is one thing, buying a new PC with the capacity to run Vista and going backwards to XP makes no sense. At this point the applications that don't work with Vista are all badly written applications that should be shunned anyway.]
I have moved my primary Windows Machine to Vista 64-bit. It can address 6GB of RAM, is fast and the only real issue I have had is that it sometimes does not wake from sleep, and thus requires a reset. But even that has not happened in a while (about 2 weeks.) All in all I am happy with Vista. I even use IE7!
In my opinion it's easier for most users, by far, to move from XP to Vista than to get to grips with a completely new system like OS/X or Linux.
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