mir I am sure you all know about it the vista official release i am asking : who already has it up and running ? who is planning to use it ? why.. why not? any good versions in the Lebanese market :P (u know what i mean)
battikh i tried one of the betas few months ago. but removed it in less than 24 hours, drivers issues and programs incompatibility,... but i think in the newer version most of the drivers problems should have been solved. on 512MB ram, with nothing else installed, it was running good (nechker allah ya3neh :P), bass i dont know if you start installing lots of stuff what would happen. w curently using office 2007, till now, it's working smoothly.
MegaCool My friend bought ultimate vista version (pirated i think), It ran good on his P4 3.0GHZ and 512Mb-ram, but when he enters windows media center it starts to lag and stuff, and it even crashed for like 4 times in a single hour.. so he immediately then formatted his pc and, installed winxp back, I think that vista is more likely dedicated for future high-end pc's, and modern ultra-high end systems now...
rolf What's in it for me to move from xp to vista... user interface? OK but not worth the hassle for me.
mir rolf .. i think it is more than just Interface :D it took them 5 years to do it and around 7 billion dollar (will check the number later) here is a good read .. read carefully :D http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Windows_Vista
NewBie 3 of my best friends are Tier 2 tech support for Microsoft Vista....neither one of them recomends it. If you are a gamer don't switch yet, if you have alot of pirated software, music, videos don't switch. Vista's DRM prevents you from running software like limewire. Vista = linux's security (somewhat ;) ) + Mac OS interface. Rumor has it that the NSA helped micrsoft develop the security on the OS. Oh and their antivirus/spyware software also failed to detect certain viruses.... so ya if microsoft tech support says wait, then ill wait before I move from the RC version to ultimate. Do not buy premium or home basic they are useless.
Dark_angel Vista is already my main development platform using .NET 2.0. All game play just well, you just need the right drivers, specs.
samer Vista = linux's security (somewhat ;)) + Mac OS interface No, Vista = wannabe OS X interface. And they don't get near the security and stability Linux provides.