Windows Vista

[kirsteenrose]

I was just wondering what people's thoughts were on the new Windows Vista that is soon to be released?

I'm still abit dubious as to how well it will be.

I've heard good and bad things about it.

What do you all think?

[fo3nix]

It's going to be your typical Microsoft Windows release. For the average user it won't do much new than XP does, but has further graphics requirements so needs a better computer to run. A lot of the new 'features' will be grabbed from Apple's Mac OS X. Mac fanboys will go on complaining for ages over this, Microsoft fanboys are clueless so won't care.

Earlier on in its development it actually had some good new features, but sadly almost all of these have not made it into the actual release. Maybe next time. It's been heavily delayed, and to the end user doesn't look like much of an improvement from XP.

[badlad.biz]

I've been testing 64bit Vista for a while. It looks nice but is slower than 64bit Linux in everyway. The best thing I've found so far is the way it handles photo's and sets music to them for dvd shows.
Its not compatible with much from XP. AVG Antivirus is the only AV i've found to work without any glitches. It won't auto sync with either my Loox PDA or MDA Phone.
Office 2007 compliments it, but What a Price Tag!

[badlad.biz]

fo3nix has just reminded me.
There is an enhancement for XP called flyakiteOXS which makes your xp look like a MAC. Much cheaper than Vista

[TEAK36]

If you look at the following link, it seems that the Vista release is going to be delayed due to a dispute with the European Anti Trust comittee.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5325690.st m