What is the difference between Windows XP and Windows Vista?
Hello. Hope you are fine. So here are 10 deployment differences between Windows® XP and Windows Vista™ that you’ll be glad you discovered when it’s time to make the move. 1. Windows Vista Images Are Bigger With Windows XP and Windows 2000, it was possible to create images that would fit easily on a single CD (less than 700MB). Even organizations that added applications, drivers, and utilities to their image typically ended up with an operating system image in the 1GB to 3GB range. With Windows Vista, image size begins at about 2GB—compressed. Once this image is deployed, the size is often around 5GB or more, and there’s no way to reduce it. If you add additional applications, drivers, or other files, this image obviously grows even larger. So how will you deploy the image? Does your network have the necessary capacity? (10MB networks or non-switched networks are not sufficient.) If you want to use CDs, how many can you deal with? You’ll need three or four. DVDs (with a capacity of 4.7G
Xp is standard, and with all the service packs, which fix over 2/3 of the bugs, XP is far more dependable than vista. Vista is fancy, but from what I have heard about it, it has SERIOUS compatibility issues, for you almost have to buy a new camera and who knows else just to make everything you want to use with your pc work with vista. Additionally, vista is best for brand new pcs, and it helps if the pc comes first before any and all accessories, so that you can match them all up and have them compatible with vista.
