Anyone See The Xbox One Reveal Yet?

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There are many. One of the biggest is drivers. Another is how resource hungry it is. It performs slower than XP (6 years it's elder) for general tasks and gaming. For example, my parents crappy old laptop had Vista on it, it took around 7 min from power on to when you could log on and then another 3 after you logged in before you could do anything. I installed 7 on it and it's on, logged in and able to be used in under 5. The embedded digital rights management was another.

Why do you think when XP came out in 2001 they didn't put out a new OS until late 2006 (2007 for regular users)? But then from Vista to Windows 7 there was only a 2 year gap? From a regular user standpoint I would see how it would be okay but from an IT standpoint (which is the field I work in) it's a freaking nightmare. I have never heard of a business switching from XP to Vista, only from XP to 7. In the classes I take we don't even talk about it, we cover XP and 7 with a little bit of 8 thrown in. There isn't even a class I could take on it if I wanted to. The percentage of companies using it is so marginal that it doesn't make sense to have a class for it.

But like I said, to a regular user it wouldn't be an issue. If you like tinkering under the hood it's a mess. But yeah, resource hungry, driver issues, overpriced, the UAC, driver issues, needlessly complex menus to do simple tasks (when screwing with system settings I would usually just abandon the GUI and use command prompt), and oh yeah...driver issues.

There is a reason Microsoft continued to sell XP after they said they would stop and a reason they still support it today.

Can't say I've ever had any issues with speed. My games and programs have always loaded quite quickly, but that's also dependent on ram/processor, as well as OS. Resource hungry? Can't say that it is, but that might be that I have enough ram that it doesn't matter. Mind you, I also tend to do a lot of resource intensive things. About the only time I can get my computer to start having problems is when I start rendering a 1000x1000 image. About the only resources issues I ran into had to do with my video card. Primarily a drop in fps back when I was running skyrim on ultra. Since I stopped doing that, I haven't had issues. UAC? Disable it. Complex menus? The default, yeah. Just switch it to classic.

Who knows? Maybe it's just the build I have.

Support for XP ends in April of next year, by the way.

I've messed with 7, and I quite honestly can't see very many differences, beyond aesthetics.

Now I mean this in the nicest way but since you want to basically call me out, I'll say something simple and I was hoping to avoid having to say.

My nephew who's 12 notices the issues in Vista, so if you can't then why even bother to explain? You obviously don't have enough computer knowledge to see the bugs/issues it has, so why am I going to waste my time with trying to explain to you? Google it if your curious, because I'm not going to waste my time on something pointless.

Edit:
mackynz told you some of the issues, and reiterated my point about it being a horrible OS from the knowledgeable standpoint.

I do all my own work on my computer and around the house. I'm also the one that fixes most of the issues with the computers. If I need to do any tweaking to get a game running, I do it. I do my own repairs, hardware upgrades, the rare virus removal, etc.

Prior to me having to ask, all you said were quote "crashes and glitches". I haven't encountered any of these with enough frequency to say that they were anything but hiccups. UAC, driver issues, etc, etc, aren't crashes and glitches.

I think he meant comparatively the number of mods for consoles compared to is almost nonexistant. Plus it's a pain in the butt on consoles, you can get banned for modding a single player game and it's mostly just texture and save mods.

So much easier and more on PC that they sometimes become their own games like Gmod.

Right. I know that consoles themselves can be modded, but I'm not entirely sure about the game itself, which is mainly what I was talking about. All my consoles are vanilla and the games I mod are on PC.

I had modded games on my xbox its called modio if you can still find it

Basically, with PC game mods, you can just about turn the game into something completely different. Using Skyrim, for example, there are thousands of mods that do everything from: update textures, adjust the lighting, add new skills/magic, add new companions, add new items (food, armor, alchemy reagents, etc). There's even a mod to turn the dragons into Macho Man Randy Savage complete with voice.