Buy XP MCE2005 or Vista??

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Bob76

Hi,
I go the route of buying media center and then get the
free upgrade to vista do I need to install vista immediately or can I keep
the upgrade until I feel I need to install vista.

Thanks again.
 
It is not time bombed. You can wait. Have you been reading something that
suggests you would have to use it right away?
 
You might wanna wait until the Vista Service Pack 2 DVD can be acquired for free
from M$. How many freakin' update downloads would that represent? 300? 600?
1000? Staggering!

| It is not time bombed. You can wait. Have you been reading something that
| suggests you would have to use it right away?
|
| | > Hi,
| > I go the route of buying media center and then get the
| > free upgrade to vista do I need to install vista immediately or can I keep
| > the upgrade until I feel I need to install vista.
| >
| > Thanks again.
| >
|
 
Cymbal Man Freq. said:
You might wanna wait until the Vista Service Pack 2 DVD can be acquired
for free
from M$. How many freakin' update downloads would that represent? 300?
600?
1000? Staggering!
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A service pack would (normally) only require a CD, but if they have a
service pack, it would be faster just to download it and burn it to CD
yourself. Especially since a service pack combines all updates into one .exe
file.

Also, while you may hear horror stories about Vista, that has not been the
case here at all. I've been running it on my production machines full time
since RC1 and am running RTM now. It runs great here. I'm still running XP
on lesser used machines, but going back to XP seems like a step backwards.
 
Drade said:
A service pack would (normally) only require a CD
Click to expand...

Since Vista SP1 supposed to be a major upgrade (meaning new kernel version
etc) to bring Vista to the same level as Longhorn Server (so they can be in
the future updated with same service packs), it's quite possible that it
wont fit into a [single] CD.
 
Vista and Longhorn Server are already at the same service pack level. They
are the same codebase. Longhorn Server will rtm at SP1 (no standalone
service pack) at the time Vista SP1 releases. A similar relationship exists
between Windows Server 2003 SP1 and XP Pro x64 (which rtm'd already at
service pack level 1).

Alexander Suhovey said:
Drade said:
A service pack would (normally) only require a CD
Click to expand...

Since Vista SP1 supposed to be a major upgrade (meaning new kernel version
etc) to bring Vista to the same level as Longhorn Server (so they can be
in the future updated with same service packs), it's quite possible that
it wont fit into a [single] CD.
Click to expand...
 
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