Community weekly poll: Will you be installing Windows Vista?

Actually, your EXTREMELY lucky.

Vista runs so slow, with any program, most slowly with games!! its system runs that way becuase it was made not to crash. it is not easy to crash vista. (you probably could if you really wanted to!) my mom bought a sony VAIO with windos vista, 1.6 dual core, 2GB of ram. it still takes 1 min to start up. and about 10 sec to load small programs. OH AND DONT GET ME STARTED WITH TRYING TO HOOK UP PRINTERS. me and every computer tech i know, absolutly hates vista. it is much harder to fix simple problems with it. DO YOURSLEF A FAVOR GET XP or if ur relly gung ho on getting a new OS get a Mac. but trust me Macs are in no way any easier to learn than vista.

(NT) you are lucky

Winword 2007

Lois, all you have to do is save the file in the Win 2003 compatibility mode. I have 2007 on both my laptops, but 2000, on my desktop, and I email text onto my desktop and view it on word all the time.

dumped my vista

Yes, I bought a Dell with Vista. Didn't want to buy it that way but that was all they would let me do at the time. Said they were not installing XP any more. So I went ahead and bought it. Bad move. Hated every minute of it. So many functions were automated beyond my control. So many redundancies that three or four actions seemed to be required before anything actually happened. New names unnecessarily substituted for old functions. "Improvements" that are really just complications. Just one thing after another. For several months.

Then I saw a Dell advertisement offering XP! Maybe there was a new company policy. Called them about it but was told the only thing I could do was send my unit back to them and they would install XP but charge me for doing so. Decided not to spend the extra money and get serious about learning Vista.

But the worst was still to come. The Windows Photo Gallery that came with Vista destroyed (not lost but destroyed) two big batches of our most important family photos. Hours and hours with the Dell "help" people and $ and $ for a recovery program netted us nothing. Since managing our photos is the second most important function of my computer use (email is number 1) it was clear that I would never be able to trust Vista again.

Went back to Dell again. Thinking that they had bamboozled me with their refusal to sell me a computer with XP in the first place, I tried to get them to do something about the problem I was having. Maybe give ma a free copy of XP or something like that. The only thing they would do for me is suggest I get a cheap copy on eBay and have "a knowledgeable friend or relative" install it for me.

Well, I was about to make a switch to Mac, in spite of the huge extra cost. But then I found a local shop that was able to install XP for a reasonable price. Did it. Couldn't be happier. Except with Dell. This E521 will certainly be my last purchase from them.

Vista Nightmare?

MS may be dreaming of big profits while giving us nightmares in the security department. I am with most of you. No Vista for me. I shall buy a new laptop with XP Pro before Vista floods the market. My pc is recent and will keep the same.

I feel we can always trust MS to look for a tidy profit, but not to give us a quality, problem free Operating System. Beats me why anyone would pay 200 bucks, just to add to the problems we already have.

As for "the look"... It doesn't have to be theirs. Nice Themes can be downloaded from the net at much less cost (even for free), if that is a consideration.

Agreed...

I'm not about to switch my fully functional (ok...semi-functional) XP to some new Windows b.s. that's not even fully developed yet...as in, why would I switch when what I use now (XP Media Edition) does all I need it to? Sounds ridiculous to me. I'll stick with familiarity...which breeds content. Thank you.