Today, after a lot of consideration for all the obvious flaws and drawbacks involved, I have decided, like MS, to bid adieu to Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.

I have fluctuated between various OSes, ranging from Win98, 2000 Pro, 2003 Server Enterprise, various XP Pro 32-bit, Vista Ultimate x64, Ubuntu 6-8.04, Fedora 5- 9, Sabayon Linux, RHEL 5, OpenBSD, OS X Leopard etc... some I kept for only a few short days due to their tec problems or my incompetence or impatience or whatever. But one hing that never changed ever, was my installation of XP. A standard XP Pro that was replaced by 64-bit version and then became the only operating system along with Ubuntu 7.10. On a side note, Vista was legal, so was XP 32 bit, Server 2003 and RHEL 5. Rest are either open source or essentially illegal to even have an image of on a windows machine!

My tryst with XP, like everyone here, has been a long one! Right from 2001 when it was launched! At that time, I was an average user, not knowing much about the power of XP. But by the time I finished my MCSE a year back, I could ake XP do what ever was in its programming limit, without programming the shell itself! In fact, this knowledge of XP helped me in those exams!  XP is not the cleanest OS around, but it sure is a stable one, when you consider its user friendliness and popularity! It would definitely rate among one of the most loved OSes for a long time. Be it in GUI or system services or simplicity and most importantly, value!

However, its also a fact that it is a dying OS and cannot compete with the coming world. I doubt MS ever intended to keep it alive for so along in the first place! Like all things, good and bad, XP must now fade into the darkness of Oblivion, only to reamin a memory and a record!

The new vista of the future is shown by Microsoft Vista (to the geeks, Windows 6.) People keep saing that it is a horrifying OS, and maybe it its if you don't want to spend half of your new install time on getting rid of unwanted Services. and drivers etc etc... but the thing is that I never had to bother with any of the incompatibilities!
Frankly said I never once ran into a problem with Vista. However, I did reformat it, returned the DVD to my source and stuck with XP. But I guess its time to move out and about! I am about to perform a CLEAN! install with Vista and the spend the next two three days configuring it to my taste! Vista will be multibooted with Server 2008 and RHEL 5, if i can get it to install on my PC... in case it screws up, I switch to either of the other two and wait it out for a year or so for the next OS launch!


Thank you Microsoft,... it was a WONDERful eXPerience!

yeah.. many new features, GUI, more modern look.... a lot!

I love vista my favorite thing to do is to hit windows+tab and cycle through windows when I'm bored...
besides I've never had any problems with vista either

i might migrate once i get paid and order some more RAM...