Started Using Windows Vista Today. Anyone Else?

Got my laptop running Windows vista today. Seems to be running great.

The interface is a lot different from XP and will take a little bit to get use to. A lot of features seem to be like Linux. It does look like a video game also, a lot of visual addons are used. Performance seems to be good and doesn't take up much more memory on start than my XP machine.

This is an almost new laptop with 2gb memory and a Intel Duo Core chip, so beware if you are thinking of testing this on an old machine.

 

Where did you buy it? Is it available in stores yet?

 

I havn't installed it on my computer, as mine can barly handle XP as it is (haha). Needless to see, I have seen some of vista's "play" features, and I just love the 3D window flipping feature. So cool.

 

i guess most computers sold lately have a free ugprade available to vista, since there getting ripped off buying a new pc .. pre-first quarter

 

I haven't installed it and not planning to install it anytime soon! I am still used to Windows XP and don't want to make the change to Vista until I see it becoming 'stable'.

 

It already is considered somewhat stable. The final version was already released, and is said to be ready to be released.

 

I'm running windows vista ultimate on one of my computers (got a msdn subscription). The only application I've had problems with so far is iTunes. iTunes is unable to update my ipod

 

not yet but i had a look and feel in a cyber cafe, its amazing, i liked the graphics and interface

 

as you told lots of features of windows vista,i think it will be better than windows xp.so i m gonna installing windows vista to my computer.

 

what are the privacy implications of using vista?

 

"A lot of features seem to be like Linux."

Windows spent $200,000,000 developing an operating system which resembles an open source one.

Sounds like windows alright.

Anyways just got XP running on my imac, might get vista soon.

 

This is the production release that I am using, which will be available retail in first quarter next year. There will be compatability issues with the upgrade, the same as there where with XP, but those soon will be flushed out.

One such issue is with windows development tools. Since they the OS is now going to be running .NET3.0, they say there may be some being backward compatible with lower .NET version. I have read that Visual Studio 2003 will not even load on the machine.

From what we have seen and read, this OS is stable and there are additional features to enhance security. One such item is DOS, it doesn't run as administrator unless you right click and "launch as administrator".

 

I'm using Visual Studio 2005 on Vista with no problems. I've had no reason to try 2003 yet.

It runs with administrator privilages if you disable the UAC.

 

That is great news for me. I was hoping the text was just informational. Unfortunately for me, we still have about 75% of our applications on VS2003. These aren't little apps either so conversion tends to take a bit of work.

 

One thing I have noticed to boot and shutdown time. It takes only a few seconds to do either. wow...

 

the latest release is called RTM which stands for Release to Manufacturing, which means companies such as dell, HP, compaq, etc will start putting those OS on their new computers and selling them.

 

thanks for this post, at least i gained information and views on Windows Vista.

 

I just ordered a new dell lappy last night. 2.0ghz core 2 duo, 2gb of ram, 120gb hdd, 9 cell bat. It comes with the free upgrade to windows vista, but it's not shipping with vista yet.

How did you get your hands on the RTM?

 

Seems its still In a Rc mode...I downlaod the RC1 from windows to test drive ,its cool.

 

Actually, I am not using RC1, and thats pretty old and somewhat buggy. I am using the final.