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pooper · 12-01-2007, 19:56

There's no compelling reason to upgrade in the near future really, like Delta Whiskey said, most of the interesting new features were cut, to bring the release date forward (and various other reasons).

For gaming it's complete poop right now and the only thing really 'selling it' is the fact that it's going to have DX10 (no DX10 for XP), so if you want to play the next gen games, you'll have to switch over to Vista (although some titles are being developed for both DX9 & 10, e.g. Crysis).

I don't wanna sound like the usual Microsoft basher, but seriously, most of their new features have been blatantly nabbed from OSX, the similarities are quite funny (check Youtube)!

But anyway, i'd say for the near future..... stick to XP! (lesser of 2 evils)

Or use Linux!

12-01-2007, 19:56	#6
pooper Inactive Join Date: Oct 2006 Services: VM 20Mb Posts: 438	Re: Vista Worth It? There's no compelling reason to upgrade in the near future really, like Delta Whiskey said, most of the interesting new features were cut, to bring the release date forward (and various other reasons). For gaming it's complete poop right now and the only thing really 'selling it' is the fact that it's going to have DX10 (no DX10 for XP), so if you want to play the next gen games, you'll have to switch over to Vista (although some titles are being developed for both DX9 & 10, e.g. Crysis). I don't wanna sound like the usual Microsoft basher, but seriously, most of their new features have been blatantly nabbed from OSX, the similarities are quite funny (check Youtube)! But anyway, i'd say for the near future..... stick to XP! (lesser of 2 evils) Or use Linux!