Your opinion on Vista

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Ok, just checking to see everyone's opinion of Vista. Do you think it's
the best thing ever? Or do you think it's another Windows ME in
preparation of the real thing 2 years from now?

Just looking to hear what everyone thinks.
 
Read the past 300 or so posts and you can form your opinion.

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Richard Urban
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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Everyone? You could never read all the responses if even everyone in this
group responded. :)

But, it has its pluses and its minuses. I use it every day for most things
I do on the PC. I don't use it for anything multi-media related except for
development purposes.

Dale
 
Ryan,

You will have several options after you read thru all the opinions you'll
get:

1. Stay with what you have
2. Buy a Mac
3. Switch to Linux
4. Take up drinking and install Vista

Fact is, good bad or indifferent it's here to stay. Now it's just a matter
of how fast they patch things that get squawked about the most. I'm testing
both the x86 and x64 versions of Vista Ultimate and your opinion will be
different from mine depending on your experience level and hardware/software
that you use. Someone that is having a lot of problems because of a lack of
drivers or setup issues on their hardware really doesn't help you unless you
have similar hardware.

I would suggest you get a good reference book to help if you're installing
and maintaining Vista for any system/s that you rely on for business use or
home office. You need to understand the differences (and maybe the why
behind the changes) from what you are used to - to where you are headed.

I happen to like Vista so far and I've suffered thru a few problems as many
others have. Some are Vista's "bugs" some aren't but I'm finding solutions
and/or work-around's that work for me and so will you.

We asked for more security - it has it. That does not mean it's any better
but there is more of it and you can argue the merits of the implementation
all you want. Don't like it - turn it off. Vista has lot's of eye-candy,
it's a total different look - I like it because I'm ready for a different
look. XP has run its course as far as I'm concerned but I need to keep it
and work with it until Vista has a couple of 3rd party features fixed (like
Cisco VPN).

But to answer your underlying question... is it worth installing? Yes.
When will you install it is the question now......after SP-1 or will you be
an early adopter and all that entails. For some, no problems and that is
backed up by noticing all the people that did install it and are not posting
problems here.... millions perhaps! Then there's the few here (in
comparison to those that are not here...) that love a good challenge, like
to bitch and rant (stress relief) and want to learn more about what it has
to offer.

For me, I maintain my own business network and I also help several other
small businesses keep their networks functioning so I need to learn it if
I'm going to maintain others systems. Ask yourself if you are you up for the
challenge of learning something new and different? If so - go for it, if
not, nothing wrong with that. Sit there and be a wall flower............;-)

Bob S.
 
Ok, just checking to see everyone's opinion of Vista. Do you think it's
the best thing ever? Or do you think it's another Windows ME in
preparation of the real thing 2 years from now?

Just looking to hear what everyone thinks.
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I've used Vista 64 bit home premium for two weeks now, and I love
Vista. I did build a new system, so it was a clean install, not an
upgrade. From what I've read, it seems that those that have problems
with Vista are upgrading. The problems I have had are compatiblity
issues, which I'm sure are because I use the 64 bit version. I'm sure
they'll be worked out soon. Personally, I agree with the group that
says not to upgrade to Vista, but get it with a new computer. I chose
Vista rather than XP, since I'm sure I'd be upgrading to Vista
eventually anyway.
Some of the criticisms of Vista I've read on here don't seem valid to
me. For example, it uses a lot of hard drive space. True, after I
installed Vista, I checked my hard drive space, and 9 GB was used.
This is quite a bit, but I think the smallest hard drive sold today is
80 GB, so that is really not a significant number.
Vista does use a lot of resources, but computers have so many
resources that this is really not a problem. Twelve years ago, my
first computer had a 250 mb hard drive and 4 mb RAM, and cost $2,000.
Now, for a third that price, I get about 500 times that. Since the
resources are there, why not use them to make the computer more
powerful and useful?
What I like about Vista:
1. The aero not only looks nice but is very useful.
2. It's very inclusive, other than a virus scan, it has all the
utilities that you'll need.
3. Search is very easy.
4. It's very fast. But, I have to admit that my last computer was a
Windows 98 with a Pentium III 500mz, so anything is fast by
comparison.
Well, that should do it for now, I'm sure I can think of more good
things about Vista. I just get tired of hearing how Vista is the tool
of Satan on here. It's not.
 
Ryan Estrada said:
Ok, just checking to see everyone's opinion of Vista. Do you think it's
the best thing ever? Or do you think it's another Windows ME in
preparation of the real thing 2 years from now?

Just looking to hear what everyone thinks.
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Read the newsgroup posts. You don't think this has been discussed over and
over?
 
Opinions matter little. Those with -working- drivers for all their HW and no
incompatible SW, tend to like Vista. Those without -working- drivers for all
their HW and/or who own incompatible software, tend to dislike Vista
intensely.

I happen to be one of the former group. My opinion means squat to those who
belong to the latter group. C'est la vie.

Lang
 
Read the newsgroup posts. You don't think this has been discussed over and
over?
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This pointless and insulting post count to your score of how many
posts you made this month Rock?
 
Ryan Estrada said:
Ok, just checking to see everyone's opinion of Vista. Do you think it's
the best thing ever? Or do you think it's another Windows ME in
preparation of the real thing 2 years from now?

Just looking to hear what everyone thinks.
Click to expand...

Friends don't let friends do Vista.
Give your pal a bottle of scotch and the keys to your car instead.
 
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