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yesterday i downloaded the vista beta 2 and i was wondering if others here will be upgrading to vista when the full version is released i kno i will
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Well, as a gamer I praobably need to upgrade to be able to play the newest games on DirectX 10

Vista is even worst than xp ,It has higher system requierments ,but has few improvements ,if any ,I recomend using modified versions of Windows XP ,some of them work very smoothly.

I'll move to Vista as soon as I buy a new PC

I was running one of the old Vista Beta's it was nice but it made my system sluggish. It took a bit of work to adjust to some of the changes but they were nice once you got used to them.

I don't see me upgrading unless they are willing to give me it for free, I have XP_64 for free from MS and I must say being able to legitimately use Windows Update and support if I ever need it is quite nice.

...then again, seeing as there are absolutely shitall drivers for 64bit I might consider "upgrading" to the 32bit version at some stage just so I can use my old hardware again.

I like it but I'm dissapointed about hardware requirements :(.

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Vista really sounds to me like Microsoft just wants to snuggle up to every other hardware vendor out there.

How many other OSes out there have proven that they can do a job beautifully w/o causing such a huge workload?

My frusteration is that MS knows it has most people cornered for various reasons and is cramming another sub-par product down there throats.

There is the argument that Windoze has the widest hardware support out of the box, but for the cost of a setup that will run Vista people might as well buy a Mac in which everything just works anyway.

There is also the case of someone who already owns a PC instead of spending hundreds of dollars on upgrades and a new OS, you can buy a Linux book and still afford a weekend vacation with the money you saved. Although to be fair you should probably spend the time reading your new book because even though the learning curve is dropping it is still quite significant.

I'm sorry but I don't see why we eat up the gruel they feed us AND go back for seconds knowing that since MS started they have always delivered too little too late for the claims they stake.

Im dual booting XP / Vista personally i prefer XP but like the look of vista it has some quirky yet pointless features....


Only one thing i would mention to anyone thinking of dual booting the ip stack in vista is different, so if you boot into vista then restart into XP for some reason you will have no Network connection to resolve this the power cord has to be removed from the system and the network card allowed to totally power down once this is happened if you boot into XP all will be fine

And the moaral of the story is... have a play with vista but stick to XP

i liked it, but (!),
my system was so slow working, i even couldnt listen music.
it was big lag... i dont know..
maybe it is beta... i hope full reliease will be clearer...

p.s.
my pc prety good for vista by looking on it requirements..

windows vista is now one reality.
When come to sell in europe??
any one know?

Shadowed wrote:I like it but I'm dissapointed about hardware requirements .

same here the hardware requirements is too much..i only get 2/5 score from the rating

as u can see.. is only beta version of the vista.. so i guess when the full version of the vista is released.. all the bugs and slow speed shown on vista will be fixed too..

Well i haven't used vista since CES but going off of what i tested its kinda sad.
It had slow response, annoying UI, and its *security* was laughable.
Then again i havent used it since CES so maybe they fixed everything...

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