but it isnt, its a bloted version of a previous microsoft OS with a new user interface that makes people think its new. if you look under the hood you will see it mostly the same with very few really radical new features. until the software you need to use wont work on xp then why waste your time and money.
I have bought a new laptop 1 week back which came with Genuine Vista home basic edition..So I am going to keep it.. I have 512 RAM and i think its not enough for vista.. Takes time for booting and shutting down. If you have enough RAM, then vista Rocks..
By 1 year from now, everyone will be using Vista, I'm sure. But right now WinXP is all I need, it's stable, it has drivers & software and it's established.
Same here MeetHere. I have also bought a laptop within few days back which came with vista home basic edition with 512 RAM. Agree that it takes time for booting and shutting down Unable to install zonealarm on that, don't know why Anyone give me solution for that ??
Simple answer... If your upgrading your computer GET VISTA... If you're not keep XP for another year... And BTW have atleast 1-2gb ram otherwise I bet its slow... Josiah
Hahah, half of the people here are criticising vista for being too pretty, and the other half are criticising vista for being too ugly, is there anything microsoft could have done, or should they just never make another operating system?! And you really only actually need 512MB of RAM, to run the basic side of vista, and with 1GB you will be running it relativley well, which these days isn't really any amount of RAM. For example I got a Windows Experience Index score of 4.9 for my RAM, which is 2gb, and the scores are out of 5, so 2, is the most you need to run vista quite fluently.
The trouble with vista is the vista content protection I suggest everyone read up on it. It is some incredibly scary stuff and will effect virtually everyone! And vista is no more secure than XP. It still suffers from exactly the same kind of exploits that windows XP, Mac and Linux do. The RootKit Exploits which is so incredibly dangerous yet most people know so little about it.
Why should the consumer have to buy a new computer just to run a bloated OS? It maked no sense at all.
not hate, its just microsoft tradition to have many security holes well at least I'll wait for SP1 then buy Vista
I installed IE7 on my PC and the whole thing came carshing down around me. They don't insure that (and as someone once said, Linux is only free if your time is worth nothing) and I have had to reinstall to get back to where I once was. Vista - I'll give it two years and then maybe a new PC will have it installed for me. No cutting edge stuff for me..
I highly doubt it. I think that this is the next Windows ME. A flop that people will forget ever existed.
Why throwing money in the wind? Vista needs more RAM, faster CPU, better graphics accelerator and more HDD space. For what? Eye candy? Better search (who ever used F3 anyway?)? I've been to Microsoft presentations of Vista and honestly haven't seen a thing to make me throw money for something slower than XP... My 2 cents...
you hit the nail on the head there. Microsoft have grown used to people rushing out and buying thier latest product... just because they have released it and it looks cool and its new.... ever since windows 2000 there have been no massive improvments to thier operating systems because they didnt need them, win2k was cracking! so instead microsoft bloat it with junk and make it look flashy.