Well it is a bit of a pain that Microsoft is doing this but it is so they can get sales up for Vista. Besides, Vista will pobably be more secure in 2008. However, nevertheless, I won't be upgrading to Vista unless it's much cheaper than what it current is. Some shops sell this for £200.00 - not prepared to buy it for such a price.
I don't know you, but for me paying $319 for an OS is expensive. Even XP Pro Retail is still expensive but better.
i cant beleave they working on a new windows! when vista does have some problems altho it runs perfect for me, and losein surport! that just plain sucks! they shouldnt cut it off so soon beautiful alot of computers still run xp because they jsut ant powerfull enouth to run vista... Altho i love windows MICROSOFT SUCK
$99 USD for basic upgrade $199 USD for premium upgrade $299 USD for ultimate upgrade. Aound the same price as a mac or any other system from microsoft.
Vista is a work of art - your simply ignorant if you disagree. If you judge an operating system completely based on it's GUI your a fool. Read up on some of the new hard disk encryption and server based features, at LEAST! Also - for those who comply with how Microsoft ripped off Apple on the GUI; who cares? Microsoft was simply keeping up with the times, they spent way to much time on more kernal-side things that a GUI was the least of their worries. It's childish to argue over things like that. AND, for those who complain about Vista's minimum PC requirements - get over yourself, it's not our fault that you spent more time on digitalpoint than you do actually trying to make a living so that you could possibly afford to buy a Vista PC. Maybe I'm wrong and you DO work; well then STILL - STOP complaining and switch to a more functional operating system thats free and open source; such as any Linux destribution. (Knoppix, SLAX, DSL, Ubuntu, ect) I'm done.
MacOS is priced $129.99 and linux is free. It shows, they tacked on a crappy GUI to make it look improved. Did you actually read the thread? People are buying pcs capable of runniing it but choosing not to.
Microsoft just wants to force us to use Vista. Vista is crap. The consumers still prefer XP, so Microsoft is retiring the product of choice of consumers in order to force them to buy Vista. So lame.
i prefer xp over vista my frnd got a laptop , they putted vista on it nd it was crap to work on when i try to install something it ll ask whether u want to install or not lol they will make my machine nOOB UBUNTU s much better option than vista ( minus gaming xperience )
You dont know how lucky you all are. I think you all must be very young or at least dont remember the days when if you had a Pentium 233 with MMX and 128 MB of Ram and a 2GB Hard Drive you were in the big leagues of gaming hardware. Back then we were using Windows 98 (that was the version of windows before XP came out for all the young uns). I am old enough to rememebr that my office was using windows 3.1 and the OS came on floppy disk. When XP first came out came out my old system could not run it, so I hade to buy a new one. (You cant find much about it on the internet becasue when XP was released the internet was not really as popular as it i now. Back then it was eh? a blog? whats that?) On my new system XP ran fine whch was great for a few years. Now a new OS is on the block (Vista) that requires more power and hey it does not run that well on most of the current machines which is why manufacturers are making better machines (like they did when XP came out) and you have toreally upgrade. I have done the upgrade and I now run 4 x 19inch monitors using a Compaq Dual Core 3ghz, 4Gig of Ram ith a 20 gig swap disk and Vista runs like a rocket. Sure it has some niggly problems but what machine does not. With progress comes change and yes you will switch Vista at some point in the next 2/3 years. In 5/7 years time when the next major OS is released you will be slating it like you are now, by then XP will be the equivalent of what Windows 98 or Windows 3.1 is now. It does make for some good converstaion though.