From: Gary Britt 



Geo. wrote:
> "Gary Britt" 
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>> So Here are my questions.  Since Vista Basic is basically XP Home and
>> I like XP Home would I be happy with Vista Basic??
>
> Vista gets rid of a few annoying things like narco the search and
> seisure doggie, however it contains more drm, more copy protection, and
> more phone home crap.


Yeah that's not good.


>
>> A.  Is Vista Basic going to be slower and resource hoggish compared to
>> XP Home?  If so by how much?
>
> Maybe, maybe not, it depends on what features you turn on or off, the
> indexing is a pig, some of the gadgets are pigs, there are tons of
> services you don't need to have running, etc. But after tuning and
> turning off glitzy crap it's about like XP.


I have always turned indexing off and before that MS Office Find Fast on
Win98, but I'm sensitive to these things and tend to use trailing edge
hardware and use it longer than most so I'd probably notice the slowdown
and not like it.

>
>> B.  Does the Vista deactivation features make it impossible to trust
>> and therefore unusable regardless of the answers to my other questions?
>
> Yes but if you use windows update you have the same problem with XP.
> What you don't have with xp, or at least not yet, is the solid
> underpinnings of a full blown DRM  based video and sound subsystem.


Yes the full blown video and sound DRM degradation features etc. are a real problem.


>
>> C.  Any compelling feature in Vista Basic not in XP Home?
>
> Nope, nothing great, given the choice I still prefer W2K as I've not
> seen any must have feature added since then. But there is some fun
> stuff. One thing you should know, lots of software is not compatible
> with Vista, lots.

I tend to run older software, Sidekick 98, MS Office 2000, Ecco Pro 4.01,
and a couple of ancient DOS apps.  I need my software more than I need
Vista.  I don't know if any of these programs would have issues on Vista.

Thanks,

Gary

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