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I voted for never switching to vista. Vista will be bad because other operating systems have set the bar too high for microsoft to compete. Vista is finally picking up some features that other operating systems have had for a long time, as shown by this video comparing mac osx to vista. The NTFS format is pretty weak and very old (and most importantly not journaled), package management is becoming a basic feature of an os, and vista is lacking where it counts. It's nice that they're trying to head the right direction I guess, but they're dealing inferior products that are way overpriced.

All I have to say on the subject is that allthough Vista will be inferior to most other OS's out there every will have to learn it sooner or later when they stop supporting XP and 2000 and with almost every corporation using Windows and not Mac OSx or Linux/Unix/Solarius it will be hard not to learn it

Windows Vista will be inevitable for about 85% of Windows Users if not more.
The fact is companies cater for Windows because there customer base uses Windows... The customer uses Windows because companies develop software for Windows.
A coworker downloaded Windows Vista RC1 from MSDN, as far as I know it's next to the AOL Giveaways.
Microsoft Marketing’s policy must define innovation as "more 'G' in GUI"
When I first saw it I thought it was a Frankenstein hybrid of KDE and Project Looking Glass.
I haven’t thoroughly used it but going by Microsoft's history on the Windows Family I doubt much will change.

• Windows 95 - The New Age through A, B and C
• Windows NT - New Technology, because we seem to use it again and again...
• Windows 98 - Because 95' didn't cut it
• Windows 98SE - Because we made mistake and we want you to pay for it
• Windows 2000 - Now add SP1 through to SP4 (NT)
• Windows ME - The Millennium Experiment (More NT)
• Windows XP - Do I need to comment? (NT Again)
• Windows XP SP2 - Microsoft finally seems to take a step towards security

Some how I doubt things will change within one OS release, but hopefully some progress will be made with Windows Vista.

Hi all, i have to say that vista is much better os. I have vista rc1 installed and i don't think i can return on xp now
Security level is higher than xp sp2, and GUI vista for me looks like some unix KDE based OS GUI .

Only one prob, vista eats all my memory 512mb

zogo wrote:

safety wrote:I have made the switch from windows to mac and will never look back. Hey that rhymed, lol. I have used windows since version 3.1 and it feels good to finally use a reliable os.

Likewise, except that I only used Win since 3.11 ;]

Hey, me too!

I'm sure i will install a "borrowed" copy for the sake of learning, but i will never ever use windows as my platform of choice. Even though paying outragious sums of money for an insecure, buggy OS that then requires you to spend outragious sums of money on software before it can even be usefull sounds appealling, i think i'll stick with linux.

Not sure if I will use it for a while. I will be trying to avoid it for as long as possible.

Debian-Gentoo-XP FTW!!

Eventually im sure I will end up using it to be able to get access to new games etc but I am happy with my XP and linux PC at the moment, when I comes to the time that I have to for a good reason then I will have to give in, but I will do all I can to fight M$

I'm an official Vista tester since the Longhorn days, it isn't that great. I probably won't upgrade this computer, I'll just build a new one and switch this to a server or something.

It's a Windows XP Home / Slackware PC.

I'm not much of an early adopter. I did get WinXP the day it came out, because I was getting a new laptop at the same time, so it worked. I'm planning on getting a new gaming desktop at home, and plan to stick with XP just because I know how everything will work. Maybe once that happens and everything's moved over to that PC, I'll wipe my laptop and go with Vista there. I'm interested in trying it out, and really want to go 64-bit, but am waiting for applications to catch up.

I dont think id switch to Vista, i've tested it in beta on a couple computers and it just seemed to drain the resources.

It may work really well on a monster machine but for those who dont have a gig of mem. or a super processor my opinion is DONT do it.

Windows xp works great for what i need, no need to switch now, but vista is fun to beta test. Thats as far as would go on vista....

My current system can run Vista but I plan on swapping out the processor and some more ram before then. From my reading, the major things are processor and video card. Though I am in the habit of just turrning off all the little extra features that makes Windows "look pretty". I knocked WindowsXP down to look like 2000. I most likely do the same with Vista.