On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Jeff Findley wrote: > > "Apptech" wrote in message > news:010101c8aa42$1fa83560$e701a8c0@y2k... > > I'm not a Vista apologist BUT that is in fact exactly what > > has happened since time immemorial. As features are added > > speed generally drops. Sometimes it drops more than is > > bearable for what you feel you get. Moore's law generally > > saves u$oft and others. But, as Moore's law tends to be > > somewhat broken at present Vista is in deeper than usual > > problems. > > While true, what's new in Vista that is really needed? > > I've personally found XP SP2 to be more stable than Win98 SE, so I'm glad > that my newer PC's have XP. Also, I find driver support in XP, especially > USB support, to be a lot better. There is a lot of hardware I've bought > that works well with XP without the need to install a device specific > driver. > When it comes to USB, newer version of Windows generally have better support than the old versions. XP SP2 will of course be much better than Windows 98SE in terms of USB. Even the ill-fated Windows Me has better USB support than Windows 98SE. http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/connect/USB/USBFAQ_intro.mspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms794253.aspx Windows XP SP3 will fix some bugs for USB with XP SP2. But Vista SP1 should be better in this aspect. Example: http://www.cygnal.org/ubb/Forum9/HTML/001572.html Wikipedia does list a lot of Vista features. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista But I've heard enough of Vista problem. Even my wife now starts to complain about her new Vista notebook. Initially she has very few problems. Now it seems she has more and more problems... But stillshe does not want to use my XP desktop and let me use her Vista notebook. ;-) Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist