As a techy kind of person, I doubt very much that I'll be able to avoid going the Vista way. I've played with the beta somewhat, and like it a lot. My brain would say "be cautious, wait and see", but my heart will say "ooh, new stuff to play with, get it!". The latter will probably win out fairly quickly.
I know exactly what you're going through bryanbellis:)
Originally Posted by dougsnell
I tend to be a fairly fast adopter of Microsoft software.
im going to be forced to upgrade wheather i like it or not (in my case NOT) the reason being is that my clients are goinjg to start using vista and i need to know as much as i can to be able to help them...
chris
If you have clients... then don't expect them to jump ship immediately. Businesses are usually the last places to see new software. As stated previously, cutting edge software is a businesses nightmare. Plus think about the initial prices times how many computers the business has. This normally doesn't add up to quick installs.
A company needs to have a good reason to upgrade all their PC's. Plus Vista is more of a "Home" version I think.
If you want to be up to date, I would download the latest public release and leave it at that.
Its weird because I'm an IT administrator and have always been involved in new versions of windows. But XP is very nice compared to older versions. Personally my favorite versions are 2000 and 2003. Nice, clean, stripped down, stable, yummy.
I hate how XP and now Vista are starting to come so bloated. Give me a simple "shell" and let me install what I want and make it personalable.
I agree that you'll need to learn it (as do I), but I wouldn't jump in head first with my primary PC at home. I would setup a dummy PC and try it that way.
The security issues (hence the $) with new Micro$oftware are always enormous.
It's not a good idea to jump on the bandwagon before the first, big, security holes are at least somewhat patched. Whatever they want you to believe - They are sloooooooow at patching security holes, and closed code, or security through obscurity, is not as safe as open source code that's been around for a while.
If you truly want a safe operating system go with openBSD. A new version is out (With an arm-ish port). :)
ive currently got Vista RC2 running on my Latitude D800 (PM2.0 1GB RAM) and Vista is stable and responsive. My main reason for wanting to upgrade when it is officially released is for the new version of Media Centre which looks and feels absolutely amazing.
I plan to upgrade to Vista for my TabletPC, but not for my desktop.
Vista has many enhancements for TPC's that definitely make the upgrade worth it. I've been running the Beta's dual booting on my Tablet and really like it.
But I don't think the upgrades are worth the $ for my desktop yet.
I'll probably upgrade when I build my new computer. I have it install on my current one (dual bootable w/ XP), and it is kind of slow, because my computer doesn't have much RAM.
Will run XP on current machine 'til it gives out, then use whatever on the next gen. Might build my own and use a Linux distro, or get pre-fab with Vista preinstalled.
... Just in case anybody's curious, my Alienware is my second manufactured PC. My first was W95, Pentium 120. Upgraded to PII/266 then PIII/350, various RAM, motherboard, case video, audio, drive upgrades, OS to Win98se. The Alienware came with WinXP Pro and was cutting edge 'way back when. But with an OEM license. I will look at full license for my next system, so I can continue the upgrade stream, as the OEM kinda chokes that a little. On the other hand, my wife's old broken PC has a valid XP Pro license, and somebody tells me that the MicroSoft support techs are understanding about that...
I want to delay using Vista until some of the security holes are patched, but 5-6 years is too long to wait. I think I'll migrate to Linux and buy a console for gaming when the time for upgrade comes.
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