Vista ProsVisa has theoretically improved security (I consider the security only marginally improved over a properly configured and managed XP PC
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What you're missing is what everyone misses every time a new microsoft operating system comes out. Going forward from Windows 95, there hasn't really been any "major" "killer feature" that is an absolute must-have over the previous generation of the operating system. Instead, its an extremely large quanity is small obscure features that makes the newer OS worth it
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I think you are mistaken about the presence or absence of "major" "killer features" that were present in Operating systems after Windows 95. Each OS offered significant stability improvements over the previous one. Moving to Windows 2000/XP was advertised by Microsoft as being 10+ times more stable than Windows 98 and 4.5 times more stable than Windows NT. You don't consider that a major must have? NTFS support in Windows 2000/XP. XP came with System Restore.
I think the extension of activation and the presence of DRM enablers wipes out the benefit of a lot of the many trivial advantages that taken as a whole might make Vista worth it for people that care about photoshopping with the VGA driver or bandwidth in the file transfer dialog.
Windows 95 to Windows 98 was somewhat trivial and to a lesser extent 2000 to XP, but I can't think of any area where it was actually worse. That isn't the case here.
At this point I am pointing casual computer users to Mac's, XP, or open source (Ubuntu).
Tho I hate to admit to its existance, Windows ME had system restore first... Which by the way, system restore has caused several headaches for me over the years
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Well... not the exact same file system as NT. As I'm sure you know, NTFS5.1 isn't exactly the same as NTFS in NT4 and wasn't added to NT until service pack 5 or 6, but for 9x users this was a killer feature (even if they didn't exactly know it
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I think the extension of activation and the presence of DRM enablers wipes out the benefit of a lot of the many trivial advantages that taken as a whole might make Vista worth it for people that care about photoshopping with the VGA driver or bandwidth in the file transfer dialog.
Windows 95 to Windows 98 was somewhat trivial and to a lesser extent 2000 to XP, but I can't think of any area where it was actually worse. That isn't the case here.
At this point I am pointing casual computer users to Mac's, XP, or open source (Ubuntu).
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