bash Windows 8

[stefcep2]

Well, I guess that was a pretty pointless point.
But no matter how bad Win8 might be, it can't top Vista.

Most crash prone POS I've ever used.

I can't say I experienced the same.

I have two machines that are on Vista Business SP 2( they came with SP 1), and other than the boot time taking abut 20 seconds longer than Win 7, they're virtually identical performance and stability wise as my Win 7 laptop.

Pre SP1, Vista was unfinished, 3rd party drivers were lacking (especially video and sound) and there were some file copy issues.  The other problems was the aggressive indexing, and the on by default  defrag.

Hardware wise old machines lacked enough RAM.  New machines had a lot of crapware- when first turned on Vista tried to index all of the files, thrashing the drive and killing performance.

There are guides out there that let you tweak Vista and drastically improve performance.

I'll be using the Vista machines till I can't get MS updates and Vista is EOL.

 No reason not to.

[stefcep2]

LOL.  Exactly.

Mind you, Vista became a lot more stable when the final service pack came out, but by then you could get Windows 7.

Well of course you could.  Vista was a lame duck by then, and they couldn't really call it Vista SP3, which is what Win 7 basically is.  Pretty much everything, including drivers, that works with Vista will work pretty much identically on 7.