Why do school hate window vista?

Question

Why do school hate Window Vista?

Because there is a new computers at my school and on the computers it has a sticker saying that it was Window Vista but the school got rid of window vista and put Window xp on it.

WHY??

I don't hate window vista!!!!!!!!!

and by the way it is a dell computers and i know dell still sell Window XP

Answer 1

sometimes the different programs aren't compadible and if people had XP they wouldn't be able to transfer their documents into the Vista programs.

Answer 2

Because Vista sucks, it suffers from severe performance issues, crazy driver problems, and changing to XP is probably the smartest thing your school has ever done. Linux would have been better, but oh well, can't all use free stuff...

Answer 3

There's a very good reason for it.  It's the fact that there are huge issues over Vista compatability with older programs.  Our technician has spent days trying to get programs that we use all the time to work on Vista and it's a nightmare.

It's a horrible operating system if you are running a school network.  XP is really very good indeed.

Hope that helps

Answer 4

Because it's awful. Seriously.  

Answer 5

Ah.

I'm guessing because of the fact that in comparison to XP, Windows Vista drains more resources and hogs up more space.

Your school was probably picking the more practical solution.

XP is easier to handle - even if it isn't as - pretty - as Vista :)

Answer 6

THEY CANT AFFORD IT ! TRAMPS

Answer 7

beacause xp has been around longer, has more supported devices and drivers and in general causes much less problems for large organisations (such as schools)

Answer 8

Likely because schools are not very rich and therefore need to economize on computers. Vista requires more memory, more disk space, and more money to buy a copy and other software... (more expensive all around). XP can get by with a bit less (less expensive). That way, the taxpayers can send students to computer-using schools without shelling out so much. You'd like that, too, if YOU were paying taxes, no?

Answer 9

Could possibly be that their current software wasn't compatible or that the licence for however many computers for Vista was too expensive. You often find that schools and other training establishments are slow to upgrade to new systems because of cost factors with regard to licensing and also the fact that XP and 2000 before it worked so well on networked computers. It could also be simply that your IT teachers don't know how to use it properly themselves yet.

Answer 10

Yeah, my school have just gotten a new range of computers (something like 20 of them) and all of them came with Vista but they installed XP over it.

The reason is that Vista is just such a slower OS when it comes to School use. There's no need for the nice graphics on something that you're not allowed play games on. So rather than have everyone suffer with slow but good-looking computers, they just install XP onto it. Plus that fatc that most homes still have Xp, and that it's a system that people are famil;iar with plays a large factor.

Hope that helps.

Answer 11

Compatibility is a huge issue.  My department hasn't migrated to Vista because we have some applications that won't run on it that we need for our jobs.  There are also issues with integrating Vista into domains and managing Vista machines with older Windows servers.  Upgrading is more than just upgrading client machines, it can mean major infrastructure upgrades that cost millions of follars.

Answer 12

They probably don't know how to use vista

Answer 13

They probably bought an XP package for all their computers and now that they have some new ones, just loaded what they already paid for onto there. Their IT guys may not know Vista as well and XP and this way it's consistent.  

Answer 14

First off you need 1 gig just to run it, so why upgrade?  When you dont have to.

Answer 15

Since Xp is better the strt teaching the OS from as u come to know XP eventually u can learn VISTA

Answer 16

People who know nothing complain about Vista.  Drivers are glitchy?  Not MS's fault is it?  The reason "school hate window vista" is because security is set too tightly.

Answer 17

Vista is slow and glitchey. It has an especially hard time with printing. That is why if you buy a Dell you can get an XP downgrade. This means that the computer comes with both XP and Vista so you can run XP until Vista has been fixed then you can load Vista on your computer at no extra charge.

Answer 18

maybe because the school computer doesnt have a really powerful cpu or alot of ram since vista takes a c**p load of ram. right now im just on desktop and its eating up one gig lol

Answer 19

We have HP's here in houston , well the reason they put it is because Vista is slow, and XP is simply compatible with our new computers, we are required to add these computers to the domain, and xp makes it easier,  also the login, for example, AD is a domain, and if you want to login in a network account, you have to type AD\username but XP you just type username on the box. We also have a volume license for it.  

Answer 20

My husband works on computers, and builds them.. he thinks Vista sucks.. him and others i know also think that Windows XP is the best one ever!