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Vista is underrated. Use it for a month and you’ll never go back to XP Pro SP2. Compared to XP, Vista

1. gets to the login screen faster
2. logs you in faster
3. speeds up the more you use it as opposed to slowing down the more you use it
4. assigns IP addresses faster
5. powers off faster

I’d especially like to talk about points three and four. To veteran XP users, Vista will initially appear to be very slow. Why? It doesn’t know what you like! Thanks to Superfetch, the more you use Vista, the more it knows about what programs you like to use and when. Soon enough, you’ll notice that applications load faster because they were precached. By comparison, XP doesn’t have this, and the more you use XP, the slower it gets.

Back when I used XP Pro SP2, every now and then my computer wouldn’t be able to recognize the Ethernet connection. I would right-click and select “Repair Network Connection,” but it never worked. This has never happened under Vista. It has always recognized a plugged-in Ethernet cable and what’s more, it assigns IP addresses far more quickly than XP does.

Interestingly, Vista is only a bad operating system for nerds who are stubborn and refuse to heed the advice of “forum tech gurus”. With XP, you needed to tweak it for optimal performance. With Vista, it works best when left alone! Thus, Vista works for computer novices who don’t know that you can tweak an operating system and for non-stubborn computer enthusiasts who know that tweaking is counterproductive for Vista.