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Who has made the switch to Vista? I hear so many conflicting reviews about it, that I am undecided. Some have had a seemless upgrade, others have had no end of trouble and switched back to XP. Thoughts?

I haven't tried it, but I don't think my computer has enough oomph for it at present anyway

I am using it, but I didn't really switch over, it came with with my new computer. It took some getting used to, but I kinda like it now

I've been using Vista on my laptop since it reached RTM status last November and I'm very pleased. Vista recognized all my hardware and I didn't have any driver issues whatsoever. All of my software work perfectly as well and to top it off, it's speedier than XP ever was for me (on the same laptop).

Hi Brian,

I concur with those statements - the hardware developers play a key role in this process however and sadly not all of them have been able to develop Vista compatible drivers for their hardware products.

On a side note, I am personally going to wait at least 2 years before I upgrade to Vista - unless a revolution takes place with regards to compatibility and performance. I simply don't need such high volumes of eye-candy for a user interface to be honest.

Roscoe

Vista Business on my laptop, not really messed around with it enough to see if I like it or not. Somehow my husband stole the laptop and when I return *poof* Vista was installed.

I only use it right now for some docs I need to have in order with excel, and to remote to my other computer upstairs. Oddly, for some reason, if I remote from the lappy to upstairs on wireless, it flakes sometimes. Still gotta figure that one out.

I use Windows Vista Ultimate 32Bit & 64Bit and both of them working smoothly. I've never had any issue with them. I like their update system and generally the whole GUI. Many improvments in security (build in firewall and defender) and also many other nice features such as data encryption and others.

Thanks

I will start using vista if it recognises my tv tuner card which doesnt work in winxp, its a philips chip, It was my mistake to buy this thing on ebay.

I still use windows XP because I just
1. Don't like the look of Vista (Too fancy)
2. My computer lags alot when using vista.

I will probably continue to use XP until support runs out for it

Do not get it, atleast not yet it's so buggy, wait for a service pack to come out. i really am getting annoyed with all these bugs :l