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clanggedin:

I've been running Vista on a test PC here at the office for a month or so now and it seems pretty stable. Those security pop-ups can be annoying, but they can be turned off. If you are the admin then turn them off but leave them on for the other users.

I just picke dup a new PC a month ago that came with the free upgrade. I am just waiting for them to ship me my copy of Vista.

I encountered more issues with things breakign when I installed Office 2007 than with Vista. Palm Hotsync with Outlook broke and my unified mesenger with Outlook broke too. Waiting for patches from Palm and Inter-Tel to fix these issues.

ChadTower:


I have no plans to upgrade beacuse I have no compelling reason to do so. 

Zero_Hour:

I've been using Vista pretty much exclusively on my main desktop system at home since Beta 2. I still have RC2 running as I type this. While I agree that the Security popups are a bit of a pain, all I can tell you is that in my experience, early setup of the system is the most annoying, because that is when you are performing the most activities that will trigger the popups. Once initial setup of the OS, and applications is taken care of, the popups become much less intrusive, and the average user could probably get to a point where they virtually never see them outside of software installation - and then only for certain titles. I suspect as more software developers begin to write specifically for Vista that this may happen even less. Overall I've been very happy with the OS, and can't think of anything from XP that I "want back".

There are still some driver availability issues, so I would not recommend rushing out and buying it unless you know all your hardware is supported. If you use software that depends on OpenGL, I would say to definitely stay away for now.

Actually, I wouldn't really recommend anyone run out and buy it now unless you do windows desktop support for a living, as the ability to be ahead of your users on the learning curve can be a good thing.

I do suspect that Vista may push a few more users in to the Linux and OS X camps, which is certainly not a bad thing, but my overall impressions of Vista are largely positive thus far.

jhanson:


--- Quote from: squirrellydw on January 31, 2007, 10:16:10 am ---I will stick with my Mac OSX for my main computer and XP for mame

--- End quote ---

I'm sticking with OS X as well.  I will eventually have to use Vista, since I work in IT, but it won't be touching any  of my personal machines.  The look, heavy system requirements, and integrated DRM in Vista really turn me off.  I don't do any serious PC gaming anymore, so Windows doesn't have much to offer me anyway. 

I currently keep an XP machine around for compiling Windows versions of some of the apps/games I develop in my spare time, but I'm thinking of just dropping the platform altogether.  I literally spend more time patching it than using it.  I mean, I turn it on, install the past few months of patches, reboot to install them, compile my program, copy the program back to the Mac for packaging and upload, and shut it off again.

leapinlew:

Vista looks to be a pain to me as well. From an IT point of view - I can't really see what it's bringing to the party. It seems that a lot of the major improvements were yanked. If this follows the previous trends, our vendors will force our hand and we'll upgrade to continue using their software.

I'm not even so sure it's all that pretty.

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