Upgrading to Vista?

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Upgrading to Vista?

Yes, I will buy an upgrade

11% (3)

I will buy an upgrade when the major bugs are gone

3% (1)

I will buy a PC with Vista installed (in the next year)

19% (5)

I will wait more than a year, then get a new PC with Vista

34% (9)

Im sticking with XP, 2000, 98,95......

26% (7)

Wots Windows?

3% (1)

Total Votes : 26

(last vote on : 3/27/2007 5:45:48)
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Spooky -> Upgrading to Vista? (2/14/2007 13:59:34)
Who is going to rush out and buy or upgrade to vista?

womble -> RE: Upgrading to Vista? (2/14/2007 14:49:19)
Okay, so did you accidentally eat the 'other' option along with your morning bale of straw Spooky? There's no way Vista's going anywhere near either of my machines, and ideally I'm intending to switch to either Mac or Linux as soon as humanly/financially possible. I was planning a new PC for some time later this year but there's no way I'm downgrading to Vista. Depending on what I find out when I check if anything like my favourite software's available for Linux, I may end up going for a dual-boot, but it certainly won't be Vista.

jaybee -> RE: Upgrading to Vista? (2/14/2007 15:32:56)
quote: I'm intending to switch to either Mac or Linux Make sure you're feeling on top form before you do, it's a big difference. I still stare at my Mac for hours hoping it might give me a clue, and the desktop with Linux on stares at me hoping I might give it a clue.

BobbyDouglas -> RE: Upgrading to Vista? (2/14/2007 17:17:27)
I received a free copy of the Vista Business license, I plan to trade it in for the Ultimate version, and then install that on my laptop. If I didn't get that, I most likely would have bought the XP to Ultimate upgrade for around $250. I know clients will be upgrading soon, so I want to be ready to help answer their questions. I expect to see some bugs, but that is to be expected. I have two friends who have been running Vista since the developer betas, they use it as their main OS right now. Gotta stay on top of technology [;)]

TonyT -> RE: Upgrading to Vista? (2/16/2007 11:59:50)
For the time I'm sticking with XP. I've read and watched a lot on Vista and, so far, there isn't anything that made me go "ooo ahhh. I gotta have that!" Aside from that, I tend to wait about a 1 year before upgrading to a new OS. I don't care to be a beta tester. I want it solid and usable.

jaybee -> RE: Upgrading to Vista? (2/16/2007 20:04:53)
quote: Gotta stay on top of technology Yeah normally I'd agree but I'll be blowed if I'm going to go out and spend thousands on replacing all my software. It reports that my scanner won't work with it and it's a brand new scanner. One of the lasers won't work and the other might with an upgrade and then there's the modem. No thanks, I'll stay where I am.

BobbyDouglas -> RE: Upgrading to Vista? (2/16/2007 23:41:33)
quote: It reports that my scanner won't work with it and it's a brand new scanner. - Maybe the tool MS released to check if everything will run doesn't work all the time? I haven't heard anything from it really, so I can't comment on if it reports wrong information or not. I'm crossing my fingers on the laptop, hopefully all the drivers will work fine with Vista... I've also heard that there are drivers now specific for Vista, so maybe the tool was reporting it doesn't work, but that's because the driver installed isn't for Vista?

jaybee -> RE: Upgrading to Vista? (2/17/2007 8:44:29)
quote: so maybe the tool was reporting it doesn't work, but that's because the driver installed isn't for Vista? Like I'm going to buy Vista just to find out. [;)]

snreu -> RE: Upgrading to Vista? (2/22/2007 17:17:19)
I bought a new laptop last week, mainly to assist in troubleshooting networks when I do computer related service calls. I went ahead and got one with Vista Home Premium installed. After I got it setup initially, the first thing I did was attempt to connect to and see all the pc's on my network. After several frustrating moments, I found that a Win XP box, as all non Vista boxes,need to hava a component called "Link Layer Discovery Protocol" installed in order for a Vista box to detect it. While this was no big deal for me at home, I can hardly go to a customers home or business and tell them I need to install this little program on all their machines so my Vista box can see whats going on with their network. I would have a hard time letting someone do that to my network if the I didn't know. So the next thing I did was set up my new laptop to dual boot with Win XP Pro. From what I've seen, I should of went with XP to begin with. Although the Aero interface is kinda cool.

womble -> RE: Upgrading to Vista? (2/22/2007 18:23:25)
quote: ORIGINAL: jaybee quote: I'm intending to switch to either Mac or Linux Make sure you're feeling on top form before you do, it's a big difference. I still stare at my Mac for hours hoping it might give me a clue, and the desktop with Linux on stares at me hoping I might give it a clue. Wombly likes a challenge. [;)][:D] I have actually got a Knoppix disk somewhere, which one of these days I do actually intend to do something with when a) I find it again (am in the midst of an office tidy-up so I've no idea where anything is), and b) get round to faffing with BIOS to get Diva to boot from CD drive.

Giomanach -> RE: Upgrading to Vista? (2/22/2007 18:26:50)
Upgrading to a new Microsoft OS straight away is always bad news. I won't be for a while, as I know some of the hardware I have doesnt have drivers out yet. There were a lot of bugs in the Release Candidates, and I don't care what Microsoft say - Windows will not be safe till someones attacked it, severly.

mar0364 -> RE: Upgrading to Vista? (2/23/2007 11:42:04)
I'm very seriously considering a MAC.

Tailslide -> RE: Upgrading to Vista? (2/23/2007 11:49:01)
I do like my mac a lot - but then again I don't do any actual work on it, it's just for browsing and multimedia stuff. The main issue with Macs is the cost of software.

Tom_Sean -> RE: Upgrading to Vista? (3/7/2007 10:21:50)
quote: I will buy an upgrade when the major bugs are gone The right way is that I will buy an upgrade when the major bugs are gone, 'cause XP still work normally for me. <edit>Removed link</edit>

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