So I finally got my hands on a Vista operating system for a clien at Plug Computers. Just yesterday I sent out a system with the Home Premium for system builders edition on it. Got to play around with it for a little bit, seems to be some pretty cool upgrades as far as securtiy and the way automatic updates are done. I like it alot. If you are satsified with your windows XP and have a little bit dated computer I would just stick with XP. Yeah vista is great, but you really need a solid computer to run it and your applications smoothly. Your overall computing may be a bit slower if you computer can't handle the vista operating system. Definately check out the recommended specs Mircosoft has provided before upgrading or choosing Vista.

In general, it looks good. Some pretty cool visual changes, as well as security updates, but I'm sure its full of bugs somewhere. Haha Microsoft couldnt sell an OS without bugs now could they! You would never have to update..haha. Check it out though, pretty neat new stuff.

Look forward to the formal release tomorrow Jan 30th.

This post has been edited by PlugComputers: Jan 30 2007, 08:16 PM

Ive had vista final for quite a while now. Ive found out that its just a new GUI of XP with a few new power tools and eye candy added. You need a pretty good PC to run it on especially Ultimate (which hopefully ill get sent in the next few weeks...It help to be a Microsoft Partner ) or you will find that vista may run slow and crash from time to time.

how long is the installation time for this? it may be a while before i can get to play with vista, it will still take me at least a year to upgrade my PC to something which can fully run this OS as intended by microsoft -- even with the barest of requirements.

hi vista has rock solid stability and security than anyother windows OS. I just love vista. But I cannot afford one now, but will get one soon.

it takes about an hour at most to install vista. If you have a slower system it may take longer

Vista fails to impress me, especially with their move to downgrade the quality of anything you rip to prevent piracy.

I've always hated Windows restrictions and forced "essential" updates and upgrades. Not only that, but all these so-called essential updates force you to check whether your Windows is genuine. Why can't it just do it the one time, rather than run the check every single damned time?

If anything, MicroSoft own your PC, not you, the way I see it. They constantly place barriers on you and make you download things and Vista seems to be taking it that bit further, only now it has unnecesary '3D' windows with which to browse your files and eats away at more precious RAM.

I have been running vista since it came out as beta2. and it has changed since then! still its not a bad operating system and has some pretty good features! they also included the media center in the ultimate version. but it has been said before, and will be continually said that you are going to need a good computer. one of my development machines that can run xp perfectly had some trouble running vista without 'aero', i couldn't even force aero to run because my graphics card was not up to it! but i think vista is still a good operating system without the fancy eye candy!

I wish I had the money to buy vista But I don't and I'm planning on getting it in 2008 if I have a new computer, I'm planning to buy a real expensive one. But to me Vista has just some eye candy and aded performance I looked at it faster, but seems a lot like XP.

I hope to get Vista this year for my computer, it looks really sweet. I hope its better than XP is.