Dell, HP keeping Windows XP alive

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As one computer user stated, "I like XP simply because it is faster than Vista. I recently bought a new computer with Vista as OS. Sadly, it is very slow. My other computer which has the "primitive" XP is so still so much faster."

A technical analyst said, "XP is one of the best operating systems out there. It has proven to be very stable. Why does not Microsoft just add to it rather than erasing a perfectly fine system- I have personally used it from day one and it has never let me down."

Another supporter said, "I won't be likely to buy a Vista machine until it is stabilized with SP2."

Nick Stahls another XP supporter, said that he started using Vista in March 2008 with his Dell XPS H2C on which he had this to say, "This is the most unreliable operating system ever and I've been using a variety of OS' since 1977. It is just not reliable. The system has just stopped with nothing to do with the hardware. The system fails and does a crash dump EVERY time it either cold or warm boots.Games fail on a regular basis."

"When an OS crashes in order to protect itself from some application attempting to access its memory space then that's a poorly constructed OS," he concluded.

But there are others who are satisfied with Vista or want to give it time to develop fully.

"XP was not great when it came out. Vista will get there," a student using Vista said.

Those who want to remain up-to-date with the technical advances say that keeping XP is "going backwards," as a technical advisor with a magazine said, "The existing Vista issues should be addressed and rectified and we should head forward."

One will have to wait and watch for Microsoft's take on all of this and pursue towards the right direction based upon popular verdict.

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