We all know that Microsoft has released Windows Vista Enterprise Editions,and the version for home users will be released on 30th January.
Will you install Windows Vista on your PC?
I have installed RC2 and it ran just well on my computer, but I don't think I will be changing over until there's a serious benefit over XP, and right now I don't see any.
If a copy of Vista Ultimate came my way I may be persueded, to install it on a seperate hard drive in my main machine adn see how it runs, and may eventually dual boot XP and Vista, but for now , without a decent graphics card or decent speed ram, no. Tho for a laugh I may install it onto a 1 gig machine with 256 meg of ram and an 8 meg gfx card :P.
Vista reminded me of a mac on steroids along with some extra DRM and restrictons sprinkled on top. Not to mention its graphics requirements are too great and I'm not wasteing money on extra parts when this system will be obsolete in a year or so, and I can use the money elsewhere, other than wasting it on a graphics card when I never play games.
Vista is nothing more than a quick hodge podge of "ooh shiny" features that in the end, serve no purpose to me. I despise the Aero interface, I don't like the idea of the UAC and I'll be damned if I want to entrust Microsoft to protect me by limiting access to the kernel from third party security software vendors while they retain access in their security products.
Vista is the ME of the XP code base in my opinion.
Probably, I'm still running XP on most my machines, expect the macs. I will probably upgrade to Vista on the Athlon64 because of the improved UNIX api's.
Still, same. No intentions of going to Vista. Even with(only to make several people envy my machine and blab at me only to try to convince me to install Vista):
I don't want to install Vista because of three things:
1) I don't want to mess with my bootloader *again*
2) I'm content with Windows XP - Everything runs fine.
3) I use Windows around 10% of the time, not enough for me to warrant an upgrade.
Vista actually is pretty cool/useful if you run it on the hardware it was designed for. I like the sidebar and its RSS capabilities alot. Only problem is that I don't have a powerful enough video card to run Vista to its fullest extent (I only have an ATI Radeon AIW 128 TV Card).
So yeah I'd prefer XP until I get a better system/video card setup.
It's like a media management program. It manages/previews/plays live TV, media, pictures, and movies. Basically like WMP except with TV/DVD/music/picture management as well.
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Vista is nothing more than a quick hodge podge of "ooh shiny" features that in the end, serve no purpose to me. I despise the Aero interface, I don't like the idea of the UAC and I'll be damned if I want to entrust Microsoft to protect me by limiting access to the kernel from third party security software vendors while they retain access in their security products.
Vista is the ME of the XP code base in my opinion.
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-Kirk
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ (low power) - 2.2Ghz Dual Core
2GB DDR800 RAM
nVidia 7950GT w/ 512MB GDDR3 RAM
320GB SATAII HDD
I don't want to install Vista because of three things:
1) I don't want to mess with my bootloader *again*
2) I'm content with Windows XP - Everything runs fine.
3) I use Windows around 10% of the time, not enough for me to warrant an upgrade.
So yeah I'd prefer XP until I get a better system/video card setup.
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