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Windows Vista Vs. Windows Xp

"The biggest competitor we face with Windows Vista is XP" says Microsoft, as it has never faced such a challenge to win public support for a new version of Windows. Many of the new Vista buyers are either buying new PCs as an upgrade cycle, or corporate customers that receive the latest operating system as part of their license. The number of people actually choosing Vista upgrades is very low, reports show that XP sales are higher than those of Vista by 60%.So what's the problem with Vista? Is it that users simply don't know how good the new OS is? Or is it simply not a big enough improvement on Windows XP?
Vista's most notable feature is its new user interface. Microsoft may not have invented elements such as icons, menus and folders, but it has effectively applied the across almost every version of Windows. While this user interface may be similar to that of Windows XP, it actually includes many advancements and innovations. It is both visually and physically better developed than XP’s interface. One of the most notable new features is the transparency effect, certainly a big improvement on XP’s plain colored theme. Vista still provides the option to choose the classic Windows 95 look, but overall the new Vista look is the greatest one so far. Another new feature is the search capability on the start menu, which displays items and filters them as you type in keywords or just the first few letters of the word. The start menu also includes new shutdown features: two buttons and a dropdown menu, which as convenient as it may seem it actually adds sophistication to the start menu. But needless to say XP’s start menu isn’t all that of difference to the Vista start menu; XP’s start menu moves programs around depending on when they were last accessed.
Nine out of every ten PCs worldwide running on Windows XP and Vista are targets for malware, and they're pretty much the only targets. Windows XP has been overwhelmed by security issues, and continues to be so, now...