Why Upgrade? The simple fact of the matter people is that a lot(if not most) software installed on PC'S with windows vista simply will have compatablity problems, or will not work at all, that worked just fine with xp. I find it funny that, and while I'm not critizing anyone here, alot of people also are upgrading to vista without running the vista upgrade advisior, to see what will run, and what won't. Also, Vista may have all new bellls and whistles, but I'm not impressed;basically, vista is a reworked version of XP. Please consider this people, even for the upgrade version of vista($99 dollars) is it worth installing, considering that there is a risk of most software will not run correctly, if not at all?GamerFan2004Vista works fine with most software, and with games. I have used Vista quite a bit, even though I don't have Vista myself. The only problem people will really encounter is with hardware manufacturers who are slow to release new drivers, which is most likely the reason why some things won't work, and means that Vista isn't technically at fault. Of all the people I know that use Vista, thats the only problem they seem to have. I've seen Vista in action, and imo, Dreamscene, WPF, and even Speech Recognition are amazing features. Speech recognition isn't that bad, taking into account that you're supposed to use it in a quiet environment with as little sound interferance as possible, and with a microphone of reasonable quality. And the product is hardly a "reworked version of XP". There are so many new major features in Vista compared with XP, with some really nice new graphical and security features. Although UAC is said to be terribly annoying (and most that I know of have reluctanlty disabled it), there are analysts who have said that UAC will reduce security vulnerabilities by as much as 80%. The graphical features are also amazing. You no longer drop frames when scaling or moving video, and Vista is now able take full advantage of a system's GPU for graphics realated processes. As for pricing, I would gladly pay $99 for an upgrade version of Vista. The only reason I don't have Vista is that I need to save my cash because I'd like to buy Vista Ultimate. If hardware manufacturers can get their end sorted, I can pretty much guarantee that Vista users won't look back once they've upgraded. If we compare Windows prices to the price of the OS X, Windows can end up being even cheaper. XP and OSX 10.0 were both released around late 2001. If you buy OSX 10.0 and follow the upgrade path, the OS X will have cost you approximately $516, whereas XP Home, and Vista Home Premium Upgrade would only cost about $360. XP Home and Vista Ultimate Upgrade is still cheaper at approximately $460. And for the record, Aero doesn't really look anything like OS X. If you saw a Vista window, and an OS X window, I think it would be pretty easy to tell them apart. And as for the search features being exactly like "Spotlight", Microsoft stated work on Vista back in May 2001, way before the first version of OS X was even released, and Microsoft announced Vista's features at about the same time OS X 10.4 (The one with Spotlight) was released, so its not exactly clear who stole what from who. Even if Microsoft did steal the search feature, who really cares? How does that affect Mac users? Answer: It doesn't. How does it effect Windows users? It helps them. So one group of people stay the same, and another group of people are better off. In my opinion, thats no cause for concern. All the correct information about Vista is pretty easy to find. Anyone who is doubtfull that Vista won't enhance their user experience should check out sites such as this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista Who knows? Perhaps it still won't. I know Vista might not be for everyone, and its not really that necessary to upgrade right now. XP is a great operating system, and I'm happy with it until I can afford Vista Ultimate. But I think Vista really is a great product, and I would reccommend it.
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