XP or Vista on New PC?

Hello,

I am putting together a PC. I will use the PC for business and engineering,
and I install on it a lot of software from different makers. The hardware I
will use will be new, Vista compatible. I like the features of Vista, but I
am worried about compatibility issues with software. Should I install XP
and upgrade to Vista later on? Should I install Vista right away? All new
computers seem to have Vista pre-installed, so Vista must be good and stable
and compatible with software. I do not know. Please tell me what you
think. Thank you.

T.I.

On Jul 21, 9:24 am, "Talal Itani" <tit...@verizon.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am putting together a PC. I will use the PC for business and engineering,
> and I install on it a lot of software from different makers. The hardware I
> will use will be new, Vista compatible. I like the features of Vista, but I
> am worried about compatibility issues with software. Should I install XP
> and upgrade to Vista later on? Should I install Vista right away? All new
> computers seem to have Vista pre-installed, so Vista must be good and stable
> and compatible with software. I do not know. Please tell me what you
> think. Thank you.
>
> T.I.

Well its a good question
XP has been there in market for long time there are many tools and SW
available commercial and Free.

Vista is still far from stable and that is y dell and other companies
started giving XP as a option for business users
as u r assembling a PC ur self may be u can do is make dual boot XP
and Vista both that way if some sw is only XP compatible then ucan use
it in XP else vista

this link can help http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/vista_ac/
http://www.iexbeta.com/wiki/index.ph...atibility_List

u can go ahead with VISTA if want to just make sure the SW u have and
plan to use(buy) is vista compatible.
and vista has many versions the feature like aero and others are not
there in home basic version so may be u will like to buy business
edition but again its all abt how much money u want to invest as the
vista it self and new SW be more expensive.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...ns/choose.mspx

Enjoy
sandy

"Talal Itani" <> wrote in message
news:9Onoi.239$Ub7.170@trnddc04...
> Hello,
>
> I am putting together a PC. I will use the PC for business and
> engineering, and I install on it a lot of software from different makers.
> The hardware I will use will be new, Vista compatible. I like the
> features of Vista, but I am worried about compatibility issues with
> software. Should I install XP and upgrade to Vista later on? Should I
> install Vista right away? All new computers seem to have Vista
> pre-installed, so Vista must be good and stable and compatible with
> software. I do not know. Please tell me what you think. Thank you.
>
> T.I.

Most problems with Vista are due to an upgrade over an earlier OS. If you
start with XP and then upgrade to Vista, then you should plan on a 'clean'
install. It would be worth your while to determine if your software is
compatible with Vista. If most of your software is compatible, then go with
Vista. I built my own system and only about 2 software packages needed
upgrade. The only problems I have with Vista and software is when the UAC
is enabled. It affected my old (2002) Canon camera download and maybe one
other package. Quicken 2002 works, Office 2000 works. Outlook 2000 works
after re-copying a couple files to another location. Nero needed upgrading
to Ver 7.

"Talal Itani" <> wrote in message
news:9Onoi.239$Ub7.170@trnddc04...
> Hello,
>
> I am putting together a PC. I will use the PC for business and
> engineering, and I install on it a lot of software from different makers.
> The hardware I will use will be new, Vista compatible. I like the
> features of Vista, but I am worried about compatibility issues with
> software. Should I install XP and upgrade to Vista later on? Should I
> install Vista right away? All new computers seem to have Vista
> pre-installed, so Vista must be good and stable and compatible with
> software. I do not know. Please tell me what you think. Thank you.
>
> T.I.
>

XP Pro is the way to go for a year or so don't you know.

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:24:21 +0000, Talal Itani wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am putting together a PC. I will use the PC for business and engineering,
> and I install on it a lot of software from different makers. The hardware I
> will use will be new, Vista compatible. I like the features of Vista, but I
> am worried about compatibility issues with software. Should I install XP
> and upgrade to Vista later on? Should I install Vista right away? All new
> computers seem to have Vista pre-installed, so Vista must be good and stable
> and compatible with software. I do not know. Please tell me what you
> think. Thank you.
>
> T.I.

First, not all new computers come with vista pre-installed. DELL is now
selling computers with xp and Ubuntu Linux installed (one or the other,
that is). They backed away from vista only because of consumer demand.

Many competent computer consultants are advising clients not to install
vista until at least SP1. Two local computer store I know of are not
selling vista systems.

My new notebook has vista pre-installed and there is no way to go back
to XP. After trying it, I have to say I like XP better. I'm not into
these aethetic things and Vista appears slow (i've already set it to
optimize for performance) and uses tons of memory. What I care more is
the speed especially speed in the applications I use. I don't have
numbers to back it up. I just don't feel any speed improvement on
desktop (accessing files, copying, etc). Does anyone know if it
improves the speed in applications? Also all these security features
are rather annoying to me. I can't access a lot of folders even with
an admin account. Maybe it just takes time to figure out all the
workarounds to get the efficiency as in XP.

I will stick with XP (on my desktop PC) for a while until Vista proves
to increase my productivity.

Talal Itani wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am putting together a PC. I will use the PC for business and engineering,
> and I install on it a lot of software from different makers. The hardware I
> will use will be new, Vista compatible. I like the features of Vista, but I
> am worried about compatibility issues with software. Should I install XP
> and upgrade to Vista later on? Should I install Vista right away? All new
> computers seem to have Vista pre-installed, so Vista must be good and stable
> and compatible with software. I do not know. Please tell me what you
> think. Thank you.
>
> T.I.

XP for sure, If you choose to exclude a non-MS OS.

Vista's growing pains leave room for XP
http://news.com.com/Vistas+growing+p...ml?tag=newsmap

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On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:24:21 GMT, "Talal Itani"
<> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I am putting together a PC. I will use the PC for business and engineering,
>and I install on it a lot of software from different makers. The hardware I
>will use will be new, Vista compatible. I like the features of Vista, but I
>am worried about compatibility issues with software. Should I install XP
>and upgrade to Vista later on? Should I install Vista right away? All new
>computers seem to have Vista pre-installed, so Vista must be good and stable
>and compatible with software. I do not know. Please tell me what you
>think. Thank you.


No, new computers are sold with Vista because that is what
MS is pushing, because it's the "latest thing". For a
professional use, you should wait until it is a more mature
OS, just as it would have been a bad idea to start using XP
right after it was first released. The initial waves of
patches and service packs tend to resolve the most severe
and common problems first, the serious use of the system
makes that more important than "liking the features".

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:03:29 GMT, "Mellowed"
<> wrote:

>
>"Talal Itani" <> wrote in message
>news:9Onoi.239$Ub7.170@trnddc04...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am putting together a PC. I will use the PC for business and
>> engineering, and I install on it a lot of software from different makers.
>> The hardware I will use will be new, Vista compatible. I like the
>> features of Vista, but I am worried about compatibility issues with
>> software. Should I install XP and upgrade to Vista later on? Should I
>> install Vista right away? All new computers seem to have Vista
>> pre-installed, so Vista must be good and stable and compatible with
>> software. I do not know. Please tell me what you think. Thank you.
>>
>> T.I.
>
>Most problems with Vista are due to an upgrade over an earlier OS.

False.



>If you
>start with XP and then upgrade to Vista, then you should plan on a 'clean'
>install.

What about the majority of people who did a clean install?
What about the majority of OEM systems that never had
anything else installed?

"Talal Itani" <> wrote in message
news:9Onoi.239$Ub7.170@trnddc04...
> Hello,
>
> I am putting together a PC. I will use the PC for business and
engineering,
> and I install on it a lot of software from different makers. The hardware
I
> will use will be new, Vista compatible. I like the features of Vista, but
I
> am worried about compatibility issues with software. Should I install XP
> and upgrade to Vista later on? Should I install Vista right away? All
new
> computers seem to have Vista pre-installed, so Vista must be good and
stable
> and compatible with software. I do not know. Please tell me what you
> think. Thank you.
>
> T.I.
>
>


Stay away from Vista...
XP works very well but Vista still has a few bugs in it