Win7 vs. Vista vs. XP

[briands]

Originally Posted by mikesm

W7 is a lot better for a sage client than vista or XP at this point. For good hardware acceleration and use of hardware de-interlacing and processing, I would still go with the cyberlink or other codecs though, as the built in ones have a lot to be desired on these fronts.

Power management seems much better out of the box - faster standby times, and restart times, quicker connectivity re-establishment after wake up, and a bunch of other nice things.

Stable and fast. Driver support is pretty good and getting better too.

Mike,

I'm still having trouble even getting anything (even DVDs) to playback in SAGE on my Win7RC client. I have TMT3 and it seems to play everything, but of course it's decoders are not available...

Any tips on your setup?

[nyle]

Originally Posted by stanger89

No argument, but that's not exactly the point I was intending to make. Basically at this point, XP and Vista are EOL, MS is trying to kill both. Windows 7 is the future, so if I were needing a license, I couldn't recommend you get either of those knowing they'll be obsoleted so soon, especially not when Win 7 is "right around the corner".

Now, on the XP vs Vista, mainly I was getting at if you've got a spare license for either there's really nothing in either one that's compelling enough to justify buying a new license of the other.

Why not buy a yearly subscription to TechNet and be able to get the latest and greatest of everything Microsoft offers. That way if a new version comes out you can just use it.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s...s/default.aspx

[stevech]

I ran Win 7 beta for some time. Now I have Win 7 RC1.
It is prettier than XP.
Underneath, it really is the same.

I can boot to XP or Win 7 on this PC.
Partly from habit, more so from indifference, there's nothing that inspires me to boot to Win 7.