Comments on: Vista Users: Switch to Windows 7. XP Users: Stay With XP…But Can You?

By: Kyle Morgan

Kyle Morgan — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:55:43 +0000

Sorry to disappoint you Jim, but VPC is just a hardware-assisted virtualization platform like others (VMWare, VirtualBox) and YES, it is an extra software layer and NO, it is not quite direct access to hardware like you believe. Here a few reviews for the non-technical reader about XP Mode in Windows 7: XP Mode and gaming: Not so much XP Mode in Windows 7 is a scam

By: Jim Danby

Jim Danby — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:48:46 +0000

Not true – you clearly don’t fully understand how Windows 7 works. You can boot from a VPC using full hardware. It’s essentially like dual-booting.

By: Jim Danby

Jim Danby — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:12:44 +0000

Even the games comment is irrelevant. Just use XP compatibility mode or boot XP from Windows 7 using the VPC features. It’s allowed!

By: Kyle Morgan

Kyle Morgan — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:58:11 +0000

Concerning XP compatibility mode or virtual machines, they are all an extra software layer. As a result, there will always be performance issues when a resource consuming processes such as games need to run.

By: Kyle Morgan

Kyle Morgan — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:38:24 +0000

Thank you Mustang for your valuable comment about gamers.

By: Jim Danby

Jim Danby — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:48:23 +0000

You have to be kidding, right? I am guessing you are a Linux or Apple fan.

Vista compatibility with applications? Not really. XP better than Windows 7 – you have to be joking. Windows 7 is far better in so many ways I can’t list them. I’ve been using Windows 7 since RTM appeared on MSDN. The only problem so far has been driver support for one of my devices, but it was one that was also not supported under Vista and flaky at best in XP. That’s not the O/S at fault, it’s crappy drivers.

By: Mustang

Mustang — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:07:01 +0000

7 is better than Vista, but it isn’t better than XP.

While game developers keep outputing software compatible with XP I won’t change.

By: Inside the Webb

Inside the Webb — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:56:27 +0000

I am running XP on my laptop and as soon as I get my MFG’s disc I’m going to do a full restore with Windows 7. I am confident it’s 100% better than Vista ever was meant to be, and I can’t wait to use it as a stable OS.