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"Acquired" a copy of Windows Vista

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Aaah, Windows Vista, sure to be my next Major headache. I played with the first couple betas and there were some good things and some bad things about it.

One of the key problems for me is the fact that I have to constantly get updates for the OS I have, yet after a while I am forced to pay for a major update. At this location I have approximately 200 users, each computer has an OS and Office Professional.

Now, my first instinct is to say screw it and not upgrade anyone, like I tried to do with Windows XP, but soon came a time where Dell stopped giving me Windows 2000 and forced me to take XP and a similiar time will come again.

Now, all my whining and complaining aside, here's some articles you may want to read if you are planning on upgrading:

10 Reasons why you should get windows Vista

And

10 Reasons not to get Vista

Personally, I buy a new PC every few years, my home one now is about 6 years old and it's about time to upgrade to something that plays my games better (I am a WoW addict) so odds are I will just wait a few more months and get it with my new PC.

For those of you upgrading your current PC I would check to see what spec's they recomend, and make sure you fit in there. Don't look at the minimum specs because your computer will run like crap, also, as with any MS product, I would wait til SP one comes out before running it.
 
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BrutusMaximus;726668; said:
I love how this is done by people who actually believe that linux will be in mainstream use someday.......really makes me laugh.
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I didn't really take that out of it, I saw a few things that really made me go "ugh" when I read over what Vista did and didn't do, a major one is the integration of the DRM, I don't really like music licensing, not because i have hard drives of pirated music, but because I really like knowing all my music will play on any new player I get.

Another point, unless you are a die hard gamer geek and keep your PC at the top of the line all the time them odds are you will need to upgrade some hardware. It might be as simple as more ram and a new video card, or you might need to replace everything. I think anyone that's upgraded a Microsoft OS knows the pain it can bring to your computer.

And the last thing that really rang for me was that it's a target, one thing about Microsoft is people love to find exploits to it. Since Windows NT, Microsoft has always released thier network products with security being an afterthought. Some times the bigs and exploits get found before the release but often times they don't, SQL Slammer, I Love You Virus, and Blaster are all examples of this.

The reality is, anyone who is using a PC will eventually need the upgrade to the next MS product, I am just trying to make sure that people who aren't that skilled in PC's understand the ups and downs. This list is a small selection of reasons not to, I am sure we could find some mac sites with much bigger lists of why not to upgrade :)
 
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I agree with what you're saying, but I have run vista on my laptop, on a Pentium M 1.8, with 512 meg ram, shitty intel video, etc........and it ran just fine. Now of course I wouldnt play games on it, but it did all other tasks without a problem. I would recommend a gig of ram, but it isnt absolutely necessary.

Some of the other things, yeah, especially the exploits. However, I still fight that on XP all the time, so I really dont see much of a difference. I guess we shall just wait and see what happens.
 
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OCBucksFan said:
10 Reasons not to get Vista
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Ugh. Stopped reading that as soon as they claimed that UAC is a reason NOT to buy Vista. imo that's one of the very best features of Vista and a sign that MS and software companies will finally design with the non-admin user in mind. Nobody needs to run as an admin more than a couple times a week. Furthermore, disabling UAC will not harm you in any way, it will just let you run as an admin as in XP.
 
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I read an editorial/review of Vista and one of the pertinent things the author had to say was that Vista's biggest adversary wasn't Mac or Linux, but the hundreds of millions of computers running Windows XP. IMO, Vista won't flop because of the force Microsoft and Dell have on the market.
 
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Ugh. Stopped reading that as soon as they claimed that UAC is a reason NOT to buy Vista. imo that's one of the very best features of Vista and a sign that MS and software companies will finally design with the non-admin user in mind. Nobody needs to run as an admin more than a couple times a week. Furthermore, disabling UAC will not harm you in any way, it will just let you run as an admin as in XP.
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Yeah UAC is a major pain in the ass in Vista. It basically prompts you for doing anything at all. First thing I do is turn the damn thing off :biggrin:
 
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Looks like there are some bugs as of yet....

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Well fellas, as far as a personal user standpoint here, I love it so far. It looks amazing, but it somehow fast as hell. In fact, I think it performs better than XP, with twice the fluff going on. Also played several games, and they seem to run as good if not better as well. Big thumbs up from me so far.
 
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