[gamefreak94]

You're not making sense or being clear.

I mean that many apps out there still aren't compatible with Vista, and I can't be bothered to search for hours on the Internet to find fixes to make them work. On XP however, those apps will work just fine without any modification.

LOL. So false.

There is a limit to how far you can go on lying and still make it seem sensible, this simply exceeds that. But just to prove you wrong, lets see Assassin's Creed system requirements:
1 GB RAM for XP
2 GB for Vista
If you don't believe me, go to Can You RUN It? and see for yourself!

This is just one game that came to my mind, there are countless others and I'll name them if you are not convinced!

I also said you can turn those features off

Well then why should I spend $200 on Vista, when I don't want any of its crappy features. Why not stick to XP?

I wouldn't expect to run assassin's creed on vista with 1gb either. We KNOW Vista has higher ram requirements than XP....but not much. XP requires 512mb. (you can get away with 256....but 512 is pretty accepted as required). Vista requires 512-1GB.

That is just for normal use, when it comes for gaming, the requirement doubles as I have shown you above. And as far as getting away with 256 MB on XP is concerned, I managed to get away with 128 MB on my old P3.

Vista requires 512-1GB. It's also newer by 5 years. People can't say they couldn't expect a 5 year newer OS to require more ram, that's silly.

It would be pretty sluggish on 512 MB, even 1 GB won't be fast. And as far as being newer goes, XP even manages to run on old P2s which are around 5 years older than it is, while Vista wont even install on early P4s which are only 3 or at maximum 4 years older then it is.

Five years is OLD for a comupter.

Well the OS isn't one month old either, the difference between the two is only 2 years, see what I mean, poor hardware compatiblity.

Try even installing Leopard on a 5 year old mac. You can't do it.

Umm.. this thread doesn't discuss Mac OS, we'll restrict ourselves to MS based operating systems for the time being and in specific the debate between XP and Vista.

Why would you have to patch features that are already included?

By patch I meant a tweak or customization to force that app to work on Vista (mentioned above as well).