Log in

View Full Version : Should I Stick or Twist?



SligoBrewer
30/01/2007, 8:36 PM
Got a new laptop for xmas with windows media center edition on it.
have a free upgrade to vista if i want..

should i go or stay?:confused: :confused:

dahamsta
31/01/2007, 8:15 AM
Stick. I've tried a late beta and I was very impressed with it, but feedback from first movers is generally pretty bad, so it looks like the annoying kinks that it did have weren't ironed out. On top of that it's generally a bad idea to run a brand new OS on a machine that's going to be used regularly, you're better off waiting for the next release. (Microsoft says that Vista won't do service packs, but I think that's pretty unlikely.)

After all this time, if this is the best Microsoft can do, MacOS and Linux are going to hammer their OS business. They're going to be even more reliant on Office for revenues in future imho.

adam

pete
31/01/2007, 9:56 AM
When is the first service patch scheduled for? I believe MS usually do their best work in SP1 ;)

SligoBrewer
31/01/2007, 10:22 AM
When is the first service patch scheduled for? I believe MS usually do their best work in SP1 ;)

the latter half of this year,.

ill get the link..

edit:here it is..
http://apcmag.com/5098/microsoft_kick_starts_vista_sp1.

dahamsta
31/01/2007, 9:24 PM
BBspot posted a funny-yet-accurate PDF flowchart about it.

http://www.bbspot.com/Images/News_Features/2007/02/vista_upgrade_flowchart.pdf

adam