OT: Windows Vista Hitting the Streets...

[Thomas Rogers]

Anyone ready to upgrade?









I thought this image was funny...



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[Jacob Dryer]

I run it on one of my machines right now. Beta of course. But I will be recieving the full version of ultimate within days.

 

[Dale Carlson]

We've been testing the beta at work. Waiting to get our volume licensing straightened out before we test Ultimate. Our IT decision-makers are split on waiting until the first service pack is out before we deploy or going full-bore as soon as possible.

 

[TomT]

I'm in no hurry. It's taken me 5 years to get XP running just right.

 

[Kevin Palmer]

Am I interested? Yes. Will I put it on right away? No.



I'll wait a few months for the initial bugs to get worked out...

 

[Tom Schindler]

Honestly, I am not excited about it.



I was excited when Win98 came out. Then I was excited about WinME. I was then really excited about Win2K, but honestly I thought Win2K sucked. When Win XP came out, I was impressed and I am satisfied.



I can not imagine any advantage to Vista besides a pretty GUI. With Win XP, I have everything I already wanted in an OS. Ease of use and stability. With Win XP, I have it both.





Tom

 

[Gavin Allan]

I'm with Tom on this one. Windows XP and Office Pro '97 does everything I need. However, I know my days with Office '97 are limited, and soon they will make me install Vista and the newer bloated software, and then my computer will be too slow to run all the bloatware...

 

[FlipTrac_511]

I like WinXP as well, but of course, eventually newer software is what will force me to upgrade sooner or later.

 

[JohnnyB]

I with Tom also, except for being excited about the other versions.

I don't really need another OS to get used to, its quirks and problems.

 

[peter barone03]

My wife mentioned this to me yesterday, however, she also said that she heard if you have Compuserv account Vista will not work and you would need to change over to AOL. I haven't totally checked it out yet but it might mean something to someone. If I can confirm this I will let you know.Waiting for the computer guru's to get into work to ask them.



Pete

 

[Thomas Rogers]

British versions of those funny "I'm a Mac" ads:

 

[Dreman]

I just switched over to win2k last year! I'll get another operating system when I replace this computer, or maybe this hard drive.

 

[Ryan Schaecher]

In my humble opinion, WinME and Win2k were about the worst thing MS ever produced. WinME takes the cake. It lasted all of three days at my house before the system crashed and would not recover. Other places I've used it weren't any better. It's awefully difficult to try and trick a 16 bit system into thinking it's a 32 bit.... pure junk.



I've been using the various versions of XP since it came out (XP Home, XP Pro and XP Media Center in particular). XP Pro is good and Media Center has some pretty nice add-ons.



I will not be buying Vista for my home PC. If I can get it when I go back to school, great. At work, we don't put new OS's in place until atleast SP1 if not SP2. Too many bugs and our IT guy is skiddish of the potential security risks, especially on PC's that did not origionally come with the OS installed.

 

[Tom Schindler]

R Shek,



I personally did not think Win ME was that bad. I could not stand Win2K. Unstable, unreliable, and it had some quirks that I absolutely could not figure out.



One was If I was typing, I would hit a string of letter, or numbers, or hit some off key and it would type some 128 letter/number character string. No matter what I did to try to stop it, it kept doing it. I would have, at a minimum, 4 BSOD daily on Win2K. Something I never thought would happed with something that was built of Win NT technology.





Tom

 

[Thomas Rogers]

I am looking at buying my wife a new laptop from Dell and want it to be future-proof.



- Inspirion 1501

- AMD Turiun duo core (1.8ghz)

- 15.4" true-vision screen

- 2GB memory

- 120 GB hdd

- Ati Radeon 256MB gfx

- 8x DL dvd burner

- 9 cell 5.5 hour lithium battery

- Windows Vista Business



(everything above is an upgrade to top of the line; processor, lcd, memory, HDD, gfx, burner, battery, OS...all maxed).



Dell has a price drop that ends tomorrow. The above laptop is $300 off, and you get an additional $50 off if you get it through the "small business" side of Dell's site.



Total price...just over $900.





P.S. I have been using Win2k on a server that runs my software dev business for 5 years now. It's been rock solid, for the most part. Only hung maybe 3 times during all that time. I agree that WinME wasn't the best.



TJR

 

[Bill V]

TJR, I definitely don't have an answer for you--I'd be far more likely to ask a question like the one you asked than to answer it--but...



You say that you want this computer to be "future-proof". Isn't that a bit of an unrealistic expectation with the rate at which the technology in this field changes?

 

[Thomas Rogers]

BillV, A computer that is future-proof to me is one that will run the apps I want to run with reasonable performance for the next 5 years; one that I won't run out of storage with.