Community poll forum: Will you be installing Windows Vista?

We downloaded the 6 Fedora ISO's today and are seriously considering moving to Linux for our company.

Hardware and software compatibility, costs and the custom software we use to run our company are the main reason we are looking for a stable reliable operating system, other than Windows.

Wish DEC and OpenVMS were still an option.

Greed has blinded Microsoft's Marketing Dept. Following an embarassing two years of XP "patches" etc; why would a rational customer pay $200.+ for a "new" version that offers LESS security & features than their present "patched" XP ??? When I purchase a new computer and Vista Prem is installed, then and only then will I consider it.

Well I agree,that its not much difference,just a bit tarted up.
So i wouldnt pay $200 for it .
They can pay me if they want to have it.
I,ll stick to my XP media Ed. for the moment.

I beta tested Win2k and XP is really what Win2k was supposed to be. Vista? Why? What does it really have to offer me that XP doesn't? I just don't see it. The drivers don't exist for my hardware. I went through all that with Win2k and XP, plus all the service packs too! I was an early adopter of NT4 and it was well worth the trouble. But I see no reason to spend money to upgrade when something isn't broken. Offer me something real and of value Microsoft and I'll consider it. Work with the hardware vendors (the small ones too) to have their drivers ready when you launch a new OS and perhaps you'll have my interest. The promise of no reboots when patches were applied to Win2k was never fulfilled. Too many broken promises and too much hype leave me uninterested in a product I find no need for.

If I got Vista & the next few upgrades free, I still wouldn't have my money's worth from Microsoft. We've paid too much already for earlier versions. They keep promising great things & deliver shoddy product, full of bad ideas & bad programming. Not enough improvements to entice me into something that'll undoubtedly be loaded with glitches (fool me once....). And, why be forced into further hardware upgrades to take advantage of minimal OS improvements? Microsoft stopped putting out good product when they introduced the first Windows OS; they only put out good DOS because they were pressed to keep up by competing OS. And, remember, Windows wasn't an original idea either(think Mac).

I could have written the note from digidave.

I had a Win 95, Win 98 and bought a Mac with Adobe Photoshop Elements and Office 2004 for Mac.

Because of my Family Tree Maker not available for the Mac platform, I bought a Win XP/Home just for it.

The Mac is a truly remarkable and quality machine. I needed a more robust program thatn Apple Works and i-Photo hence the purchase of Adobe and Microsoft software for Mac.

I just installed OS X-Leopard and it is fantastic. There were a couple of glitches and a couple of new 3-rd party software programs that I had to replace which are free. But, nothing like the nightmare of changing OSes from MS. Apple should have held off releasing Leopard or should have given the code out sooner to developers. But, this is being fixed by Apple and others very quickly.

i've tried a lot of OS. they all suck, they all have problems. i've been using vista home premium for 8 months. the only thing i changed was my linksys router to an N. NOTHING HAS FAILED TO WORK! if vista isn't working for someone, it's not vista! it's either you or your software. if you don't know what you're doing, why come on here and complain? most people who bad mouth vista have never tried it, have never took a few hours to figure it out, or are just going along with the popular thing to say. it only took me one evening to figure out how vista works. it wasn't difficult to figure out what to disable or adjust. most people who badmouth vista are same ones who want everything for free. CHEAP PEOPLE MAKE ME PUKE! then they give good programs bad ratings because they're too cheap to pay for it. i would never go back to using xp, it looks and runs so junky compaired to vista. it's like moving from the rich part of town to the trailor park. the only thing worst than xp is vista home basic.
and twstdskll, vista is an excellant upgrade. FOR SMART PEOPLE! LOL

I bought win vista from dell and installed it I had all kinds of problems with it so i sent it back to dell and got a refund, and after studing all the problems other people had I found a way to fix all the problems with vista. then i saw and bought vista ultimate on e-bay for half the price, the full verson and installed it on my dell system, now I can't live without it.before i would you like to know what i did to fix vista? sure you do.
I partention my hard drive into two drives that way i can keep my xp and installed vista (just in case.) it works very well, i can play all my games and watch tv with win xp, and use the vista for the office stuff. and soon i should be able to remove xp alltogether just as soon as i get a better tv tuner card that vista likes.
i really love this vista that just the other day i put on the 64 bit verson on and i can't find any problems at all.
i have read that people had speed problems with vista, I have the dual core prosesor and i bought a TB. hard drive to handle all the saved data. I for one is very happy with vista, i wish i had done this sooner.

I reasently had a complete computer failure/lock-up on my Dell laptop, using their tech support they talked me through a complete computer setup and re-installation, on following their instructions I got a message on my screen "Installing WINDOWS 98" I told the technician this and he said yes that is correct, I said but my operating system is WINDOWS XP, he said yes, it is, but XP is WINDOWS 98 with a fancy front end on it to make it look better. I asked about VISTA and he said the same but with a fancier front end to enhance the usage of dual processing. Both XP & VISTA are 99.5% WINDOWS 98 with new front ends to supposably make it easier.

If you go to your system start up and remove some of the programs that start up when you boot your computer, it will boot faster. some programs install themselves in your start up system when you install it. You can remove them from starting when you boot up. This way the computer will run faster on boot up.

If you send word documents from the new vista office, and they don't have the same application, then they won't be able to open it. You would have to copy original document and past it into notepad to send it. I also have had the same problem when using macintosh-apple word documents. I now work from a Mac OS X.4.7-"Tiger" and make all documents in "text edit" and when I want to send contents I copy and paste the text into email. If you use photos-
Adobe Acrabat Pro documents can be read, but
keep small if you don't have wide band internet connection.
Lois.

I agree with digidave. I purchased a new laptop with Vista already installed. BIG mistake. Nothing but misery. Wouldn't accept software for printer and various other hardware. I finally ended up dumping Vista and installing XP. Should have stuck with XP to begin with. They can keep Vista.......Radartech

Every New Operating System from Microsoft always has too many hiccups with compatability and migrating programs and settings over. Not to mention instability with some hardware or firmware settings. Something is always lost!

Since this seems to be almost all cosmetic with some security enhancements in the "Professional Installation" I will wait until 2 things occur:

1. The "bugs" have been worked out and we are in at least ver 3 or so of VISTA. Otherwise there will be too many programs that nobody has checked enough installations of for a smooth migration. AND

AND

2. The Programs we need as a Company and I need as an Individual either are not available in XP or will not perform the functions I / we require in the XP edition. (This usually seems to be 18 - 24 months.

Otherwise, VISTA at this point is "basically show and not go"

Been there...done that. Tried Vista for three months and eventhough a I found it a wee bit easier to navigate, it's not worth the amount of memory it sucks. My wife has a HP laptop where it was preinstalled. I found a trusted computer repair shop here in Puebla, Mexico which switched me back to XP with a few goodies as Cyber Link, Nero, Winamp, and Kapersky, to name a few. What a difference!!!! I hope Microsoft goes down like a lead balloon for their Billion$ mistake in Vista. Maybe their stranglehold of the OP market's days are over. And yes, I could confirm, Vista WAS a nightmare. Would not recommend it to my worst enemy. Kazual13

Actually, familiarity breeds contempt! Though I am also contented.