Upgrading to Vista?

[kamkazmoto]

I have Vista on my new PC and I need to warn anyone that wants to upgrade that Vista requires a MINIMUM of 1 gig memory. Ideally, (according to HP support), it should have 2 Gig. Mine only has one gig and has dropped some drivers. It is no big deal to reload them but it is a pain in the a$$. I was told that with two Gig I won't have that problem.

 

[Daniel]

I have not upgraded to Vista.

That said, I have read many accounts of persons upgrading from XP without any problems.

I have also read of many telling horror stories of piggybacking Vista on their copies of XP. Most of the "pros" are suggesting a clean install on your drive.

The biggest problems are being seen in the drivers and in gaming software. These were also the same problems when XP came out originally.

If you want the Ultimate Vista to run the way that it is designed, you will need 2gb of RAM and a video card with 256mb and preferably 512mb to run smoothly--again according to the "experts" that are testing it thoroughly.

Like XP, I will wait 6-12 months for the problems to be resolved and then I will upgrade.

 

[Normark]

Hey Guys...

Holy Cow...

Just read the review of Vista...

What a Frigging Mess...

Personally I don't even like the thought of upgrading to XP let alone Vista...

Sounds like you've got to let MS get their fingers into your machine....

Not for me..

ttyle

Eric
O/ST

 

[flava]

Joss, listen to Gollnick and backup your data before changing the OS. You would pull your hairs one by one if you didn't and something went wrong during the upgrade. After you did that, don't unplug nothing and just do the upgrade.

Even if Vista has serious issues one is free to use it if he wants to.
Personally, I don't know what I'd use if I got a new computer. I absolutely hate the MS invading policy, but I equally hate the unfriendly Linux environment. I'm an IT engineer and still find certain aspects of Linux unbelivably unfriendly and obsolete, and this stands for all the Linux distributins I tried.

 

[Joss]

Data back up is a non issue. Not only have I backed it up, I'm also planning on installing Vista with my 2 document HDs disconnected - I'll have only the C drive running.

 

[jfindon]

I won't upgrade for a good long time yet, especially after Tom's Hardware's review about how it ran most things slower than XP.

I'd also never upgrade an OS. Clean installs only for me.

 

[bSquirrel]

make sure you have no unlicensed media on your HD. vista will delete it.

i personally will NEVER upgrade to Vista. i'll stick with XP until my laptop dies....then i will be going to Ubuntu Linux for my OS....... or going to Mac.

MS will never see a dime of my money again. i'm not a MS hater by any means.....but Vista is the absolute pits IMO.

Bill

vista deletes your unliscenced stuff? That would be a catastrophe if it did that to me. xp it is

 

[blad3]

make sure you have no unlicensed media on your HD. vista will delete it.

i personally will NEVER upgrade to Vista. i'll stick with XP until my laptop dies....then i will be going to Ubuntu Linux for my OS....... or going to Mac.

MS will never see a dime of my money again. i'm not a MS hater by any means.....but Vista is the absolute pits IMO.

Bill

I'm going to PCLinuxOS myself. Vista is not allowed within 20 feet of my CD tray.

Oh and Microsoft would also like to replace HTML as the standard for web publishing with one format of their own which of course would be windows dependent in order to see it.

A coalition of rivals charged on Friday that Microsoft's new Vista operating system will perpetuate practices found illegal in the European Union nearly three years ago.

The European Commission found in 2004 that Microsoft used its dominance to muscle out RealNetworks and other makers of audio and video streaming software and that it made its desktop Windows deliberately incompatible with rivals' server software.

"Microsoft has clearly chosen to ignore the fundamental principles of the Commission's March 2004 decision," said Simon Awde, chairman of the European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS).

The group of complainants includes IBM, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Adobe, Corel, Oracle, RealNetworks, Red Hat, Linspire and Opera.

The Commission said it was studying the complaint. Microsoft had no immediate comment on the statement.

Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system is due for formal release on Tuesday, including a major rollout in Brussels, complete with a news conference and party.

"Vista is the first step of Microsoft's strategy to extend its market dominance to the Internet," the ECIS statement said.

It said Microsoft's XAML markup language was "positioned to replace HTML," the industry standard for publishing documents on the Internet.

Microsoft's own language would be dependent on Windows, and discriminatory against rival systems such as Linux, the group says.

They said a so-called "open XML" platform file format, known as OOXML, is designed to run seamlessly only on the Microsoft Office platform.

"The end result will be the continued absence of any real consumer choice, years of waiting for Microsoft to improve--or even debug--its monopoly products and of course high prices," said Thomas Vinje, lawyer for ECIS, in the statement.

Microsoft has challenged the 2004 decision, which included a record fine of nearly 500 million euros ($649.4 million) and orders to change its business practices. It awaits a decision by the EU's Court of First Instance.


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