Vista: Hold off a bit?

[westmanguy]

Ok, so I am interested in Vista Home Premium for my laptop. I am going to buy a new desktop computer in the next few months and will probably get Home Premium on it too.

Now, I am wondering if Vista, rate now, should I wait a few months? Is there known problems. Or should I just go out and upgrade it?

Now, I am on a laptop and do NOT want the Windows Media Centre, as that is a waste of time for me.

Except the Home Basic, well, looks to basic to me. So Can I get Home Premium and customize it to take Media Centre out of it?

Thanks.

 

[karra]

Hey wmg - I hope you don't mind if I piggyback on your thread - but I would like to know what the take on Office 2007 is - should I rush out and get it, or wait - with you. . . .

 

[L Gilbert]

Ok, so I am interested in Vista Home Premium for my laptop. I am going to buy a new desktop computer in the next few months and will probably get Home Premium on it too.

Now, I am wondering if Vista, rate now, should I wait a few months? Is there known problems. Or should I just go out and upgrade it?

Now, I am on a laptop and do NOT want the Windows Media Centre, as that is a waste of time for me.

Except the Home Basic, well, looks to basic to me. So Can I get Home Premium and customize it to take Media Centre out of it?

Thanks.

Go to the top of this page and type "Vista" into the search box then click on the "Go!" button.

 

[DurkaDurka]

A couple things about Vista:

It will work good on new hardware, if your laptop is more then 2 years old, I would suggest you hold off for now. If it comes preinstalled on a PC, fine. I wouldn't feel rushed to purchase it for an exisiting pc though, there is nothing really revolutionary about it.

There is some compatability problems with Vista and various software packages and hardware drivers. I would let the OS mature a few months before upgrading.

Vista comexs with Media Center built into it, so you are going to get it either way.

The Media Center portion of Vista does not run all the time, you have to launch it like any other program. Media Center may leave a couple processes running while it's shut down, you could disable those via services.msc though.

I personally won't be upgrading to Vista until DirectX 10 is released, that's the only part of Vista I care for.

 

[DurkaDurka]

Hey wmg - I hope you don't mind if I piggyback on your thread - but I would like to know what the take on Office 2007 is - should I rush out and get it, or wait - with you. . . .

Wait on it... same old programs, new interface.

 

[westmanguy]

I have Office 2007 rate now on my laptop.

And DurkaDurka is right. It has the same functions, just in a new interface, and a few extras.

I actually find it runs slowly.. But I am going to stay with it for now.

 

[thorswolf]

As a techie, I always recommend holding off on an O/S at least until the first service pack is released. For example, I didn't go to XP until just before Service Pack 2. It's usually roughly one year after the release of a new OS. Same with Office, wait for a major patch or a Service Pack.

Hope it helps.

 

[tamarin]

http://badvista.fsf.org/what-s-wrong-with-microsoft-windows-vista

Intriguing take on it all.

 

[eh1eh]

This is funny. The mighty Vista fails at a simple task.:evil3:

 

[Dexter Sinister]

The report at tamarin's link would have had more impact if there were some examples. This guy offers some. Vista apparently won't let anything but IE be the default browser, for instance, unless you're prepared to mess around in the registry to fix it, and Photoshop won't run except under Vista's hidden administrator account.

 

[hermanntrude]

This is funny. The mighty Vista fails at a simple task.:evil3:

lol that was amusing. Although to be fair it seems like he wasnt using the software correctly, kept muttering to himself, not speaking clearly and getting annoyed when he was doing it wrong, like saying "less than" instead of "less than sign". Also it'd be a lot easier to do word processing like that.

Having said that, certain sofware could do that just fine in windows 95 through to XP

 

[hermanntrude]

The report at tamarin's link would have had more impact if there were some examples. This guy offers some. Vista apparently won't let anything but IE be the default browser, for instance, unless you're prepared to mess around in the registry to fix it, and Photoshop won't run except under Vista's hidden administrator account.

**** that! that sucks runny arseholes.

typical MS bullsh|t

 

[eh1eh]

lol that was amusing. Although to be fair it seems like he wasnt using the software correctly, kept muttering to himself, not speaking clearly and getting annoyed when he was doing it wrong, like saying "less than" instead of "less than sign". Also it'd be a lot easier to do word processing like that.

Having said that, certain sofware could do that just fine in windows 95 through to XP

I'd like to try it out but I'm afraid to put it on my PC. From what I can gather if you have any cracked software it will be asking you for your serial numbers. So if you don't have one then it won't work. In Dexter's link the guy had a bunch of trouble. I assume he has legit software and still had problems.

 

[hermanntrude]

and i guess the next step is to stop updating XP and start to make it unusable with their latest software. Maybe they'll make an update which stops it working entirely

 

[eh1eh]

and i guess the next step is to stop updating XP and start to make it unusable with their latest software. Maybe they'll make an update which stops it working entirely

I wouldn't put it past them.

 

[DurkaDurka]

I'd like to try it out but I'm afraid to put it on my PC. From what I can gather if you have any cracked software it will be asking you for your serial numbers. So if you don't have one then it won't work. In Dexter's link the guy had a bunch of trouble. I assume he has legit software and still had problems.

Vista doesn't care if you have cracked software on it. I am running Vista Home Premium and I have a couple hacked programs, they run fine.

 

[DurkaDurka]

and i guess the next step is to stop updating XP and start to make it unusable with their latest software. Maybe they'll make an update which stops it working entirely

Microsoft will be patching and supporting XP until 2015 or so, they only stopped supprting 98 a couple years ago.

 

[eh1eh]

Vista doesn't care if you have cracked software on it. I am running Vista Home Premium and I have a couple hacked programs, they run fine.

That's good. The only this I have legit is XP and Mcaffee, lol

 

[westmanguy]

I hate this monopoly!

I want other options than Microsoft!!

So Vista is more restricted than XP?

HEY! I wouldn't be surprised if they disabandoned 95,98,ME,2000, and XP in a few years forcing the consumer to move to Vista...

 

[eh1eh]

Maybe there will be a distro of Linux that is point and click freindly by 2015.