XP Pro or Vista Home Premium?

[wisemx]

Anybody with input?

For Visual Studio & SQL Server (2005/2008)...

XP Pro or Vista Home Premium? http://community.discountasp.net/emoticons/rolleyes.gif

[bruce]

This is a difficult question!!! There are pros and cons to either OS.


XP


- it is far more stable and require less hardware power.
- it doesn't have some of the new features of Vista like IIS 7.0


Vista


-I don't think vista is stable enough yet.Of all the guys that switched to Vistaat DiscountASP.NET, 90% regrettedthe decision including myself. There are just too many inconsistency.


eg.


- My Vista box needs to be rebooted every week or so because it will freeze.
- Another guy's Vista box's network is crawling and its a pre installed OS from Dell.


- Good thing about Vista is that it has a great UI. IIS 7.0 which is far more "interesting" than IIS 6.0.


Conclusion
If you have a powerful machine (at least 2 G of RAM and a kickass processor) and don't mind resolving strange issues, you can consider Vista. If this is for work and you don't have time to fiddle w/ the non-sense, i would go w/ xp.

Bruce

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[wisemx]

Good feedback, really appreciate that bro.
So far that has been the feedback I've received for VS 2005/2008.

I've been cartooning for years and am thinking of kicking it into overdrive for Silverlight.
Might be what I need to boost out of poverty. http://community.discountasp.net/emoticons/wink.gif

The system I need to re-install XP Pro on, corrupted, is the one I got from CyberPowerPC.
Has been a great performer.
Intel D Dual 3.6, SLI, 2GB

I can get Vista Home Premium (Academic) for $60.51
Whichhas been makingthe upgraderather tempting.
Salute,
Mark

[wisemx]

I do code for SDK based gameswhere there are known issues with Vista...
howeverall of themhave been addressed, it seems.


This system was build with SATAII and I added another channel, so...
Could actually make it a dual-boot.
http://lifehacker.com/software/top/windows-vista-beta--how-to-dualboot-windows-xp-and-windows-vista-179906.php


Thanks again bro. http://community.discountasp.net/emoticons/wink.gif

[bruce]

oh... 1 more thing.

Do you play game on your box? If so, you may want to stick w/ vista.

Bruce

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[bruce]

woot.. sorry i mean stick w/ XP (didn't know what i was thinking when i post my last post)


Bruce

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