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Anyone upgrading to Vista? I know I'm not in any hurry to upgrade. I just got a new PC two months ago and still getting use to XP Media Ctr (had Win98 for 7 or 8 years). Microsoft just extended support on WinXP to 2014.

There's a review of Vista on CNET here if you're interested. There are about 6 different vesions of Vista. See this cartoon...

I can't justify the change right now... Guess it'll happen when we replace this PC. I did heard some good reviews about it this morning on the radio...

Tim

I loaded RC1 and RC2 on one of my systems.

I found that not all of my hardware was supported and several of my applications refused to run. I'm sure this will (or won't) be all straightened out in a year or two.

But I didn't find enough compelling to actually want to use the thing. I'm sure that some will love it, but a lot of the added functionality already exists in the form of other vendors' add-ons.

I'll look at it again in a year or so. My take is that Vista won't make much of a dent in legacy systems; it'll slowly become dominant through sales of new PCs.

I just got a new PC with XP Media Ctr and a free upgrade to Vista. I sent for the Vista CD, but I'm not sure I'll upgrade right away. I'm still learning Media Ctr.

I'll do what I usually do- wait for a while until the first service release comes out in about 12-18 months.

What about Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)?

http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/index.html

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Bill (Saigon Resident Mac Expert--Married to a Windows XP Software Engineer)

I'm replying on a Vista Ultimate machine I just assembled in a half hour two evenings ago with the following parts from NewEgg:

a BIOSTAR V7603GT21 7600GT 256MB PCI Express Video Card,
an AMD|A64 X2 4000+ 2.1G AM2 65N Dual Core CPU,
2 1 Gigabyte Kingston 240 pin Dual Channel DDR2's,
1 320GB 16MCache SATA2 Seagate Hard Drive,
and 1 SAMSUNG LightScribe DVD Burner,
assembled in an MSI Barebones Tower Box and viewed on
a HANNSG|LCD19"2MS DVI 19'" Monitor.

The Vista Ultimate also came from NewEgg as an OEM version for which I qualified since I built my own system. It installed in about a half-hour with no operator interaction after the initial key, timezone, language, and keyboard queries. It correctly identified all of the components and installed them correctly. Large updates were available for downloading as soon as the machine was up and running, and I immediately installed them before I started customizing the look and feel to my preferred setup.

I'm still running Vista Ultimate prerelease RC1 on an Athlon Sempron64 that I assembled last summer but the video hardware isn't up to snuff on that machine. I wanted to see what Vista would do on a better platform so I put this one together for just a little over a grand, including the Vista.

I was up until after 1AM this morning playing my first game of Civilization IV that wasn't uninterrupted by video crashes because I was trying to run it on a Win2K platform with ATI video drivers that suck. I have also finally moved from my trusty Quicken 98 for windows to Quicken 2007 on this machine even though I've tried almost every release of Quicken since it first came out. I installed an unused copy of Office 2003 that I got through an amazing discount deal at work, and now I'm just kicking the tires really hard. Thus far, there have been zero, and I mean zero, system crashes, which in my experience with Windows operating systems is almost unheard of.

I'm unable anymore to share with my OS/2 machines my old HP Laserjet 6P printer because Microsoft abandoned NetBEUI with their XP OS's yet included it on the install CD's if you wanted to manually install it. There's no such on the Vista DVD--I just searched it.

If you have the hardware, and that's a pretty big if, Vista is thus far in my experience a definite improvement in functionality and stability. But as usual, YMMV.

Nope...Leopard is not out yet....should be out soon, though. And unlike Vista, 10.5 will likely run on most any Mac out there (I have 10.4 running on an old blue iMac at home (G3 500 Mhz.), as well as my Mac mini.

You all are talking my language!

Now, if only I hadn't got rid of my Lisa...

The bugs is crawlin' out already.

Apparently Apple is warning that some installations of Vista can damage iPods--and others won't work with iTunes at all.

I wonder if Jobs & Co. decided to do a Microsoft on Microsoft...

For the BBC story I listened to, Microsoft declined to comment. Can you imagine Microsoft not commenting?