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Re: Dual Booting XP and Vista
As with any new OS, there is going to be problems. People on these forums
took the plunge and upgraded and then found out, they had some problems and
then didn't have a way to go back.
In my work, I have to use a VPN client and PCanywhere. I finally got a
working VPN client, but PCanywhere isn't available for Vista yet.
If I dual boot, I get to fiddle around with Vista and learn it's quirks and
problems and if by some chance I have a really daunting problem, I can
always go back to XP. If nothing else, when I'm testing out games under
vista, I can go back and see how it behaves in XP. Sometimes, both OSes show
the same problem. Here in this forum, some people would scream how Vista
sucks and Microsoft screwed them !
I'm actually triple booting, XP, Vista32 and Vista64. Because I'm hearing
all this flap about 64bit and how it's the future and all that and so I
wanted to see was there in advantage or extra problems. Being able to go
back to Vista32, I can see whether it's a problem with Vista64 or if both
have the problem.
In 6-9 months from now, there won't be much need in dual booting, as Vista
will stabilize, Applications, drivers and hardware will get caught up and
Vista will run on par with XP in a generic sense. Right now, going pure
Vista is just too much of a unknown gamble.
If nothing else, Dual booting lets you find out, if you're going to have any
compatibility problems. You may find out you do, at which time you revert
back to XP and delete your Vista boot. If everything runs fine, you delete
your XP boot and go pure vista.
How does dual booting making your OS complicated ? You get a menu, before
you ever boot your OS, you choose your OS and off you go. There is nothing
complicated about it.
"ColTom2" <nomailaddress@none.com> wrote in message
news:OK6CZEdVHHA.4668@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hi:
>
> Why would or what advantage is it to upgrade to Vista Premium with dual
> booting capabilities? If one is going to upgrade then why not just
> upgrade.
>
> Frankly I don't see the purpose or advantage of dual booting other than
> making you OS more complicated. Maybe someone can explain why?
>
> Thanks
>
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