Windows Vista: HEY EVERYONE LISTEN UP ABOUT WINDOWS VISTA

You don't get it...obviously.

The point here is not that the machine vendors are doing this....get a clue. Here is an example-you decide how YOU would handle this:

Dell (pick a vendor) is presented with an ultimatum-pay when MS releases new OS, as of big release date pay $XX for each PC loaded the latest or pay $XX + $40 for loading it with old OS. Multiply by 1 million machines! What would you do?

Microslut has been PROVEN to do this kind of thing-what don't you get? It's not an "Alien conspiracy" -see later moronic post-it's a real and persistent problem! I for one choose to vote with my feet-I'll leave Vista to the sheeple.....

Dell and IBM are still selling XP machines.

Unless you know for a fact that XP OEM costs $40 more than Vista OEM, you're just sucking things out of your thumb. Dell is also developing support for Linux/Unix. Is MS forcing them to do that, too?

Competition is good. It will be interesting to see if Linux makes a run on MS's dominance. I wish Linux users well and I may become one someday. But for now, the Vista that came with my laptop is just fine and I see no reason to choose an OS just to be "politically correct" any more than I see a reason for satisfied XP users to switch.

(NT) Go ahead and be negative, but at least be factual.

Its not heavy!

im running vista on my PC with P4, 3GHz, 512 RAM and its running as smooth as XP does... im using it with multimedia applications with ease.. though compatibility issue still persists that i agree, otherwise its cool..

1mb???

What are you talking about? You didn't say what processor, just the speed. You also can't buy 1mb of anything. If you are not going to give proper specs, then don't disagree with someone who gave precise specs. You do not know what you are talking about and lack true passion on the subject as well.

1 GB seems OK for most.

After paring down the startup programs, RAM use is less than 750MB on the web. Google Desktop is a RAM hog that duplicates a lot of Vista features.

re: HEY EVERYONE LISTEN UP ABOUT WINDOWS VISTA

I beta tested Vista last year; I looked at it from a consumer's perspective(which wasn't hard, being a 'consumer' myself ). My philosophy is- "what can this product DO for me? What can it DO more of, or BETTER than the product I am now using? Is the product sufficiently superior such that I would be motivated to pay $$ for it, and use it in favor of the product I am currently using? First, I must say that the drivers included in Vista correctly ran all my hardware. I did not have a printer hooked to this machine but using my networked printer on another machine was not a problem. I found it a bit annoying that all the familiar pathways in the o/s had been re-arranged...kind of like when a supermarket gets a new assistant manager that wants to make a name for himself, and shuffles the products all around the store, from where the customer is familiar. The enchanced 'security' features are familiar to those that run Linux desktops; having to login as Admin to make certain changes is not a bad idea, but I'm sure it would be irritating to the typical Windows user that's used to the "wide-open" permissions of previous MS products. I did not test Internet Explorer or Outlook Express(I know, bad bad beta tester!) since I had been using Firefox browser and Thunderbird email client for the last 3 years...3 years of being trojan free, virus free and hijack free.
My Vista impression? Well, I thank MS for the opportunity to evaluate their new product. However, for the foreseeable future it appears that XP will fulfill my Windows needs adequately. Perhaps if one were tied to a particular financial or graphics application that's only ported to Windows, then Vista would be 'mandatory'. I have no such needs, personally. Being a "hardware enthusist", the need for increased system memory and higher-end graphics card to properly benefit from using Vista does not present a problem for me; just the thought of being 'forced-to' does. My personal preference is for a "leaner-and-meaner" operating system, which is why I am migrating from Windows to linux, and now am using FreeBSD 6.2 on one of my machines, and finding it to be not-so intimidating as some might have thought it to be.

/off topic/
I hope Steve Ballmer's motivation for the MS-Novell pact is to 'reach-out-and-join-hands' with the rest of the Community, rather than aspire to further dominance.