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if you upgrade, format and reload before doing it. microsoft advertises easy upgrades without reformatting, but in my experience it never works right.
Anyone upgrading? Today's the big day!
I have to upgrade to XP Pro to install the latest version of my accounting program. My reseller told us NOT to upgrade to Vista.
if you upgrade, format and reload before doing it. microsoft advertises easy upgrades without reformatting, but in my experience it never works right.
trust me, dont buy it.
a polished turd is still a turd.
Memory, processor HOG. Be afraid.
KEDA, will you be telling your customers not to buy it?
I'm sure ducks already has his copy...
Yeah, he keeps it on a roll next to his toilet.
Do you think that Windows update will automatically download it eventually? That will piss me off beyond belief. Especially if it happens this weekend when I need to be doing homework.
This is not an automatic update. This is an entire new version of Windows.
I know that, but just to be Microsoft...
It would only be automatic if they could charge you $200 for the privilege.
KEDA, will you be telling your customers not to buy it?
all I can do is just point to the product, if a customer asks me if I have it, I will say no I dont.
thats about all I can do.
Damn, now I have a mental image of dude in blue short sleeved polo with khaki Dockers holding his nose while wincing and pointing at software.
its crap, XP at the moment actually performs better
I've used Vista for about a month at work, and I'm very unimpressed. It's very cluttered by default. I.e., they place tons of worthless applets on your desktop, crap like a giant clock, a slideshow, weather, and so on. For gaming, it's the worst operating system you can have. Everyone has DirectX 9 video cards (unless they spent $650 on a GeForce 8800GTX or $500 on a GeForce 8800GTS), but Vista uses DirectX10, meaning all your games are being emulated by DirectX10 as DirectX9, over DirectX9 hardware that is having to emulate DirectX10, meaning your frame-rates will suck horribly, and you'll have to turn down a lot of things like resolution and details in your game that would otherwise show great in XP, and sometimes the games will literally take minutes to launch, while having to slowly allocate buffers. As an illustration of how bad this is, during my lunch breaks sometimes I play Grand Theft Auto San Andreas on a system with 1 GB RAM, a 256 MB GeForce 6600 video card, and a 3.2GHz Intel Pentium R CPU, and Vista as the OS. I was shocked to find out it actually play at a worse frame rate with less details turned on than on my old computer that has 384MB of RAM, a 64MB Radeon 8500 video card, a 1.5 GHz Athlon XP CPU, and Windows XP Pro SP2... and this is a game that was specifically designed for GeForce cards (there's even a freaking GeForce logo in the startup screen), that is known to have a lot of problems with ATI Radeon cards.
Compatibility with XP just isn't there, and it feels more like a Beta than a finished product when you use it.
Last edited by baseline bum; 01-30-2007 at 12:28 PM.
Isn't their big deal that the security features are top notch? I thought that's what I read about it...not that I believe it.
I'm not getting it.
but I'm switchign to apple next year.
I just put some more memory in ol' betsy so she'll hold out 12 more months.
they will be top notch for about 24 hrs.
there are people who live just to break apart windows - and I here that soem of them were part of the BEta group - so they got a head start on vista virus production.
I see no reason for me to go through a big hassle right now when what I have works extremely well. I don't see what I would gain. I'm already secure, and I don't think I need Vista's security features many of which I woudln't get without buying the most expensive version of the OS. Their tiered pricing is crap.
KEDA's shirt is red.
I can't get into Apple ever since they scrapped the G5 processors. They just went to Intel because it was a of a lot cheaper for them.I'm not getting it.
but I'm switchign to apple next year.
I just put some more memory in ol' betsy so she'll hold out 12 more months.
Doesn't Microsoft have a link where you can test if your computer can handle it?
My husband just bought a Dell laptop and it's 'Vista Upgrade capable'.
Will XP prices come down?
What? From free? Thank god for the FCKGW disc.
Yeah, if you go to microsoft.com they have a tool you can download to see if your computer is compatible with Vista and/or Office 2007.
. . . and if it isn't it wipes your hard drive and burns out your screen.
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