Vista - Saxperience

Connor_scotland · 12th April 2007, 08:59

Thinking of upgrading to windows vista tonight :-)

Heard loads of good things about it but some bad things aswell

Like some programs wont work on Vista that do on XP

I downloaded the toll that tells you what programs wont and for me its

Nero Premium
Zonealarm
AOL

Some pretty important programs for me but Vista looks awesome

Has anyone else upgraded

Scott^p · 12th April 2007, 09:05

nope and i wont be at least until SP1 is released

mart1n · 12th April 2007, 09:14

nope i wont be until some of the service packs are released becuase it is basically a pain in the arse becuase you have to unlock everthing on you commy and it takes a long time lol

Connor_scotland · 12th April 2007, 09:34

so would you say wait a while

KamRacing · 12th April 2007, 09:49

I just bought a Mac... much better than what Vista could offer me

Connor_scotland · 12th April 2007, 10:36

They good then mate

what one did you get

makaveli144 · 12th April 2007, 10:56

Just make your XP look like Vista and pretend, then wait till they sort some of the problems with it.

Euphoria · 12th April 2007, 13:29

i was thinkin of gettin a mac, didnt in the end

VTS_16v_Boy · 12th April 2007, 15:55

Id always chooce a Mac over PC but sometimes its easier just to get a PC as cross platforming a Mac and PC is a nightmare to say the least.

Vista does look pretty impressive but Id wait a while until the dust settles and all the bugs if any are sorted out.

Mystic^p · 12th April 2007, 16:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scott

nope and i wont be at least until SP1 is released

totally agree up to the point where you said 'and...'

Sticking with XP on my main machine for the time being, gonna get a mac book in the next month or 2 though and hopefully get comfortable enough with it to then go mac before i need to upgrade to windows

RootDogg · 13th April 2007, 18:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by Connor_scotland

Thinking of upgrading to windows vista tonight :-)

Heard loads of good things about it but some bad things aswell

Like some programs wont work on Vista that do on XP

I downloaded the toll that tells you what programs wont and for me its

Nero Premium
Zonealarm
AOL

Some pretty important programs for me but Vista looks awesome

Has anyone else upgraded

If it ain't broke, don't fix it

vts_laker · 14th April 2007, 09:36

Not a lot wrong with Vista as far as new Microsoft releases go. Especially once you have disabled a few things, and now with drivers and software support being much better. Although I wouldn't run Vista without 2GB ram, maybe 1GB if you really know what you are doing.

Richmt11 · 14th April 2007, 13:53

My mum got vista on her new Dell laptop and all i can say is how crap it is to be honest. Not alot is running on it which is a pain as its a business laptop so alot of her software isnt working.

But even more so than vista being a pain is how completely useless Dell are. I mean what other company supplies a computer wiht windows vista and 80% of the preloaded software isnt actually compatible with the OS ! makes me chuckle.

Dell have offered a nice voucher though for our inconvenience

Richmt11 · 14th April 2007, 13:53

Forgot to mention, i can see it being a very good operating system however once some of the creases are ironed out...

RootDogg · 14th April 2007, 15:19

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Originally Posted by Richmt11

Forgot to mention, i can see it being a very good operating system however once some of the creases are ironed out...

Same with xp really, It was crap until SP1 came out

b0t13 · 14th April 2007, 15:39

windows is crap all together but its the most popular and most compatable so thats why i use it, wont be upgrading/paying for vista ever, may find a dvd somewhere with it on and try it someday but not anytime soon.