crawforddavid2006

If any of you have tried vista could you let me know what you think. Thanks

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Narue

Vista is nifty, but not worth the price to upgrade from XP Pro for most users.

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Pizentios

bah, until they get rid of that activation crap (which has only gotten worse since XP), i will not be upgrading anybody at work to vista. It only allows one hardware change before you have to buy a new license. It's complete bullshit, cause i have had several situations where guys blow a hard drive two or three times out of the same computer (now this computer isn't brand new, and it doesn't happen in a short amount of time, more like every two to three years), so it's not only a big head ache to re-activate, but it's costly because you have to pretty much continuously buy licenses.

A hardware change also includes any upgrades, like a new video card and stuff like that.

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Iftikhar

However its graphics are extraordinary. Very goodlokking

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Arevos

Certainly better than the default XP theme, and I think I prefer the transparent aero-glassy look over the brushed metal of Mac OSX.

I probably won't buy it, though, as I rarely use Windows outside the workplace, and Vista's eye-candy seems a little limited compared to its competitors.

Jimbo

I haven't seen much of 'em myself yet, but it seems like Windows is actually quite behind in this regard...

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ReggaetonKing

I never heard of that one hardware change! WTF! I upgrade my computer all the time. That makes me change my mind of buying Vista!

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DaWei

That requirement has been dropped from the EULA.

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Cipher

I, for one, will not be telling my father to upgrade to Vista,(I mangage his IT stuff at his work) becasue it's too much of a hassle right now, when it would be more cost-effective to just keep XP Pro on the work machines.


But I can see upgrading in the future, if not to Linux, to Vista, because it looks prettier!

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Arevos

Prettier than Linux or Windows XP? The eye-candy for Linux has become surprisingly good recently, and with the right theme can match Vista very closely in look and feel.