Haven't seen a poll of OS for a while.

So I've used Vista and Windows 7 but I've now decided to revert back to XP as my main OS because the new ones just gave too much problems.
What a difference in speed after getting use to Vista! and no more problems.
I won't be leaving XP till its dead now!
I often wonder why I went to Vista now lol.

And no my computer specs are not crap, Q6600 @3Ghz SLI

Which OS have people settled on and what "bugs" you about the other OS's

For me it was compatablity with software I needed, Vista ran them but just not as good as XP
UAC gave problems enabled, and other problems when disabled, lol what a joke!
Bootup and shutdown times increased, especially shutdown times, which can take up to minutes! (My guess is all that flushing of RAM that it so likes to use for pre-cache!)
I don't care what anyone says about game speeds, XP is faster period!
Thank bananas I will never see that Recovery from Display Driver message again!
I don't care how much space you can buy for cheap!, 10gig for an OS is just too much when XP does it with 2gig or less! (Theres a reason why XP is faster and this is one of them!)
Roll on MSDOS NextGen!.....

 

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I use Vista and like it. No issues with it.

 

Anyone looking forward to a x86 Android OS?

 

Will not vote for 7 until I lay my hands on the retail version. Loving Vista now, you just need to know what to disable out of box and you're good to go.

 

Vista for my XPS 1530, XP for my Mini 9 Netbook

Cin

 

Vista (64-bit) on my main box
Vista (32-bit) on my MBP
Planning on retro-fitting an old box with Windows 7 over the weekend

 

nothing is as good as XP according to me.

 

You said it!

 

Vista x64 64-bit - Qosmio X300-13o
Vista x86 32-bit - HP Pavilion dv2699 Special Edition
XP x86 32-bit - Destkop

 

XP for me. Also a downgrader (although really, upgrader would be a more accurate term). I have the Win7 beta installed as well, and I like it more than Vista, but I'm not sure it has actually fixed all the problems that caused me to detest Vista. I think I like its features more than Vista's features.

I probably will stick with XP long-term, though. If I can ascertain Win7 doesn't suffer from the problems that made Vista horrible to deal with, I may switch. But XP just works, and does everything I need it to do well. I can even get many of Win7's features for it from third-party applications. So Win7 will really have to be bug-free to justify paying for it, and I am not confident it will be. It's based on Vista, after all.

Viva XP! I see no reason why it won't be an excellent OS to be running in 2011!

32-bit, by the way. Which costs me 512 MB of memory out of the 4 GB I have. But Win7 64-bit would cost 768 MB from increased RAM usage over XP 32-bit, so 64-bit doesn't actually help there at all.

Don't forget the bias in the poll from the site you're sampling. Overall XP/Vista market share is somewhere around 64/22% respectively right now, with Mac OS about 10% and Windows 2000 about 1.5%, all others below 1%. Source.

Disclaimer: I used Vista for five months. So it's not like I just read that it wasn't very good and never tried it. Although I probably would have been happier if I had.

 

Vista -> Win 7 (liked Vista but had to reinstall, figured I'd try the beta) and Linux for myself.

 

win 7 > vista

 

Win 7/Ubuntu desktop , XP Notebook.

I would pick Windows 7 if I had to choose one out the three.

 

Vista FTW.

 

Linux FTW. :GEEK:

 

XP, mainly because of software compatibility problems with Vista 64. I did see some really good deals on Vista 64 laptops at my local computer stores, so if it wasn't for the compatibility problems, I would have gotten a Vista 64 machine instead of custom ordering my Lenovo T61.