Windows Vista may offer more eye-popping features than its successor Microsoft Windows XP, but a lot of these are convenience rather than necessity.

Tech bible PC Magazine declares that, "[Vista] will require more processing power, graphics capabilities, and memory than is typical of today's mainstream machines."
Computer technician at Management Control Systems Christopher Howe agrees with the mag's assessment of the new application.

"Vista is a total copy of Apple. it can never get at the level at which Mac is because Windows still operates in MS DOS mode," Howe tells Thursday Life Tech. The Apple computer is primarily used by professionals in the graphic, media and music industries because of its reliability when working with large files.

"Vista, because it has such wonderful graphics in the background it hangs all your memory," Howes adds, noting too that Vista perhaps needs to operate on a 2GB capacity for optimum performance.

Speaking of performance, Howe notes that that's what people require when they shop for an operating system.
"People want performance over aesthetics. yes, it's pretty at first glance but when you get down to it, you'll think to yourself that your XP was better because you'd have done the same task in half the time."

For many users like Howe, Windows "XP is good enough". And until Microsoft can resolve the "hanging issues, people are not gonna gravitate toward it".
Users may wonder if it offers enough that's truly new to be worth the bother - Yes!

Many aspects of Vista are substantive improvements: stronger security, better built-in applications, networking enhancements, parental controls, and DirectX 10 graphics support, to name just a few.

Some users claim security is their biggest attraction to Vista and that the system allows for greater integration between the desktop and the web. What's more, its resource-heavy (using up of memory) feature does not bother some users since it was indeed designed for powerful machines.

Thursday Life Tech scoured the operating system in an effort to see if we'd like it.
Our issue?

It's hard to avoid seeing the things that aren't as good as they could have been. The features don't work as seamlessly as one would have liked. But if you're already an XP faithful it's hard to see why you should upgrade a two-year-old operating system, especially when it can do the same things as its more sophisticated counterpart.

Vista, though, is now only available on new machines since Microsoft plans on releasing the service pack next month.

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