Apparently you’re going to let XP live longer and longer. Vista hasn’t been as successful as you have wanted it to be. People still want XP - for many reasons: older hardware, software incompatibilities, or just because they don’t want Vista.

I’m using Vista: I’ve used it for about 9 months now, since buying a new computer. I don’t really have any problem with it - but if I could, I’d still be running on Windows XP: after all, it _is_ a lighter OS. Not that it really matters to me, because I’m running on a quadcore rig with 4 gigabytes of DDR2 memory.

So what stops me? I’m an avid video gamer. With Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced DirectX 10, and games that are Vista-only. I want the full graphical experience (although most “DX10 features” of Crysis could be enabled with a tweaked configuration file). And how am I going to play games that are restricted to Vista only in XP?

Vista isn’t a bad OS. But there’s honestly nothing “new” in it that I want. I could as well use XP - whichever is OK for me.

But guess what would be a great idea? Drop the price of XP to something like 20-50 dollars. I’m pretty sure that a lot of P2P users would even be willing to pay that sum for a good desktop OS, to save them the trouble of removing “Windows Genuine Advantage” nags and the activation system.

But then again, this’ll never happen. But it’d be really awesome. ▪

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