Who is running Vista now?

XMEN Iceman · Post by **XMEN Iceman** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 3:16 pm

I want impressions and feedback if you are.

Sharpster · Post by **Sharpster** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:27 pm

My cousin is, I briefly played around with it on Christmas... Cool stuff

Atheist · Post by **Atheist** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 9:58 pm

Installing now as I type this.

I bought the OEM from newegg.. so it's a full version, not an upgrade. I'll tell you guys how it is once its done installing.

XMEN Ashaman DTM · Post by **XMEN Ashaman DTM** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:09 pm

I've heard scary things. But I'm still stuck at Win 2k pro.

I don't know that I'll upgrade to a new OS (beyond WinXP Pro) for quite a while yet.

Spinning Hat · Post by **Spinning Hat** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:43 am

get your copies of XP now then if you want one.. MS has said they've stopped shipping new copies of XP...

MegaDeath70 · Post by **MegaDeath70** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:30 pm

Not to mention, they have stopped supporting Windows 2k

Post by **XMEN Gambit** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:03 pm

Yeah, don't you love Microsoft's forced upgrade policy?

1. Sell a buggy insecure operating system
2. PROFIT!!
3. Patch it for a while, including "stealth" patches an uneducated user will miss.
4. Sell anti-virus software to protect insecure OS.
5. PROFIT!!
6. Create new insecure operating system, and make it different enough that important parts, like virus protection and drivers, have to be re-written.
7. Stop patching old insecure OS.
8. Go to step 1.

Atheist · Post by **Atheist** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:19 pm

I dunno.. I'm really liking Vista. It's a pretty slick and smooth OS.

I haven't had any problems with it... It definitely feels different than any other ver. of windows.

Sharpster · Post by **Sharpster** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:42 pm

Where can I get vista ? I want to try it out as well.

Atheist · Post by **Atheist** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:03 am

I'd recommend buying it from Newegg. They sell the FULL (not upgrade) OEM of Home Premium for $120. That's almost $100 cheaper than the retail upgrade.

Spinning Hat · Post by **Spinning Hat** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:10 pm

I was looking at that, and I couldn't believe the price difference between the upgrade version and the OEM...

MegaDeath70 · Post by **MegaDeath70** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:11 pm

But i havent seen where they offer the 64 bit version.

Spinning Hat · Post by **Spinning Hat** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:55 pm

I haven't seen the 64 bit version anywhere yet. Has it been released? I'd love to test a 64bit OS to see if the 64bit CPUs we're all running is really going to improve performance at all, but isn't that application dependent?

Post by **XMEN Gambit** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:26 pm

Hat, don't know if the 64-bit version is out, but MS is requiring that all drivers for 64-bit be digitally signed. Meaning that it'll be a long time, if ever, before all your existing peripherals will work right.

A long shot from the recent open letter from Linux kernel devs to hardware manufacturers, offering to develop drivers for them at no charge. Under NDA if necessary, as long as the final code was GPL.

Gryphon · Post by **Gryphon** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:22 pm

64 and 32 are on the same Retail installation. I don't think the OEM version has that capability.