Completely skip Vista and move to Windows 7
Forrester recently declared that Windows Vista has seen less than 10% uptake in the enterprise space. With hype over Windows 7 starting to approach "fervent" it's time to start thinking about what to do when it comes to desktop operating systems in your business. Windows XP will eventually go end-of-life meaning that an upgrade path must be determined. Should you move to Vista and see how Windows 7 works out or should you go right to Windows 7?
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How do you feel about Vista? Windows 7? Are you going to make the jump when Windows 7 is released?NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! Really bad idea! I hate Microsoft did things are wrong! Stay on Windows XP!Skip Vista and Windows 7 and wait for Windows XP SE2 (Secondary Edition 2) can support Directx 10 or higher and compilable with old games to working on XP SE2 like Directx 9.0c and older. Bring all old memories back to relive again on Windows XP SE2!
Forget Vista and 7! No thanks! Finally Microsoft is SPAMMER and making money for doing stupid!!!
I am biggest fans of Windows XP right now. All games running very wonderful on Windows XP. How you feel about old games will not working on Windows 7? I would be angry! Grrrrrr!
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Guest86, I love how you attack microsoft and then recommend one of their products at the same time. Windows Vista is an incredibly advanced product containing a huge amount of new features that make the desktop more usable and reliable. Yet it had bad compatibility issues throughout the lifespan. Consider windows 2000.After four service packs the O/S is finally stable and somewhat reliable, but frankly XP blows it out of the water. Vista and Windows 7 fall under the same model. Vista was revolutionary and windows 7 polishes the O/S.
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I bought my first computer in 1986, the old Tandy 1000. Vista is absolutly the worst nightmare I have ever experienced. Some say it is so advanced. Well from my experience, it has not only screwed up my real estate appraisal program but has caused problems with delivery of my reports to my clients who I upload the reports to. Each time I have a glich and call the company's tech support, they try to figure out the problem, after a moment they "always" ask, "are you running Vista?" I do some fairly heavy crunching and usually try to get upper end hardware so I don't have to deal with new equipment every 2 or 3 years. I have had nothing but trouble with Vista from the start. Have seriously thought about taking Vista off my new HP and going to something else, anything else!Don't quit your day job
With unfounded statistics and meandering verse, this guy is evidence that young engineers come to the server room without the skills to communicate in writing. You sir should stick to your "geek" job and leave the writing to others.Win 7
I know this posting is a little old, but upon reading it I HAD to comment. I have been in computer technology for 20+ years, and having said that, I know that there are certain hardware/OS combinations that don't work. Unfortunately microsoft shot themselves in the foot with regards to Vista. And it doesn't matter which flavor of Vista you are referring to. They (microsoft) thought very little about backwards compatibility, and it has done them no good in getting businesses or even home pc users to adopt that OS. Now, with Win 7, I have to say that the compatibilty rate for software is much higher, and without any tweaking at all, much easier. I have even gotten all my "old school" games to run on the Win 7 platform. These are games that simply wouldn't even install on Vista, and a few that would install on XP, but then not run. I have been running Win 7 RC1 build 7100 ever since it came out, and am doing so on hardware that is not supposed to support it !!! I have no problems, bug, glitches, or BSOD, AND enjoy the fact that if a problem arises while running any app that freezes, win 7 can either just shut the app down, or in the event of a serious hang, I don't have to restart my machine, the desktop simply reloads itself. Where was this feature before ? I mean, when you had an app that would hang, you could reload it, but if the OS did this it meant a reboot of the machine. Not so now, the Win 7 OS simply reloads itself like any other app, like windows should have been doing all along. I know it is an OS, but it is still after all another app that simply allows you to manage/run multiple other apps. Kudos to microsoft, they have finally gotten it right (mostly) with Win 7.