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Printer working fine now. I tread very cautiously into the world of Windows Vista. I use an iMac with Bootcamp. Vista Business is a homerun.

Vista, I'm lovin' you as much as I've come to love my Leopard OS on the "Mac side" of my computer. Those complaining about problems with Vista, me thinks that they might lack a bit of tech savvy and become easily frustrated (just saying' ya know). My PC is running smoother and I even found the internet to be cruising at faster speeds. All in all, I'm like a kid in a toy store with my newly found friend Vista.

Smooth installation, smooth sailing. Worse comes to worse I'll just create a Virtual WinXP mode within the "Mac side" of my computer and access my old emails from there. Had waited until this date (08/30/08) to take "the plunge". Right now I'm tackling the situation on how to transfer my Outlook Express mail backups that I performed throught ABF Outlook Backup, but I'm sure I'll find a solution to that.

a few surprises, no doubt, as I found that my printer CD-Driver disc would not load as it was configured for WinXP; BUT NO WORRIES, as Vista popped up a balloon that gave me the link to the HP website so I could download the latest Vista driver for my printer. First impression upon instaling Vista is "I'M SUPER IMPRESSED". Of course, a slight learning curve having come from years, and years of WinXP, but even at that the "excitement of discovery" as I load software in.

At least do it good. DO NOT buy it. What is Windows Vista. Windows Vista is slow with a whole bunch of annoying things that pop out at the most annoying tims. I like XP much better. A faied Mac-wannabe. Honestly, I you're tryin to copy something.

The Vista users complaing of any viruses and spyware are the ones who turned UAC off or clicked right past the UAC warning prompts without evn reading them.Fact: OF COURSE Vista is going to be slightly slower than XP on the same machine - just like Windows XP was slower than Windows 2000, which was much slower than Windows NT4, etc. I wont even get into how cool Desktop Search is, SuperFetch, ReadyBoost, or the other many new features that make Vista MUCH faster than XP in many respects. Bet you forgot that.Fact: Turn UAC (User Access Control) off if you want Vista to behave like XP and not prompt you for confirmations. Not DOS.

Better yet, GET Vista, or you'll eventually be two Windows versions behind when 7 comes out - which won't be until 2010 (at the earliest), and then that version of Vista will be around for 5 years until the next version. All you XP gamers can sit in your own DX9 drool if you want to. BTW: No, I do not work for Microsoft, and I have been a huge Linux fan since 1997 (SUSE Linux, to be exact, version 11 is fantastic). Note: This will drop Vista security down to the same "virus magnet/pants down" level as Windows XP, however, so you decide.

C'mon, what do you honestly expect. THEN GET FASTER HARDWARE LIKE YOU HAD TO DO FOR XP. Vista's here to stay, folks. Prior to XP, Windows would see a problem virus come down the pike once in a while. Waiting for Windows 7 to come out in Q1 of 2010 (at the earliest without any of Microsoft's now legendary and predictable postponements). C'mon, people, get a grip and get kick that common sense glad into gear.Fact: Since SP1 came out, Vista runs GREAT. This is the natural way things are SUPPOSED TO BE AS HARDWARE GETS FASTER AND FASTER. Then XP came along, and we've been swimming in viruses and Malware ever since.

It was Windows XP. In other words, STILL VISTA. Even loaded with antispy and antivirus software, WinXP STILL gets infested and slows to a blue-screening crawl. Has everyone forgotten that today's hardware is anywhere from 4-10 times faster than than the hardware that was available when XP was first released. You may commence drolling on your poor ol' outdated XP box's keyboard. etc.

The nice part is that you CAN decide.Fact: Are you a gamer. As you read this on your XP box, I guarentee that you have spyware on your system. Yup. Everybody hated it, even the way it looks. Not only pathetic, but now very predictable.

Then, suddenly, they LOVED the older version and tried to cling to it. Microsoft releases software BY CONSENSUS, and Vista is what the people themselves ASKED FOR. I ignore the fact that Linux always takes much longer for apps to load up (and runs clunkier in general) and that both KDE and Gnome always seems to look/work a lot like the latest version of Windows. Your system is not fast enough to run Vista.

Run a scan and see for yourself. Read that last sentence again, and then look those things up. You might be interested in knowing that Windows 7 is merely a re-packaging of Windows Vista - just like Windows XP was a re-packaging of Windows 2000 because 2000 didn't sell well (see for yourself at the command prompt - type "ver" and take note that Windows 2000 is Windows version 5.0 and Windows XP is version 5.1). This same negative "new Windows sucks" propaganda wave happened when Windows 2000 was released in 1999 (nobody wanted "NT") and again when XP was released in 2002 (incompatibility problems, verybody absolutely HATED that "Made by PlaySkool" interface). Vista makes XP feel old, limited, cumbersome and inadequate. I repeat - DOS games.

Not Linux. Microsoft doesn't let anything out the door until all the usability testers (the general public that come to visit the Microsoft facility in Redmond, Wa) say they like it. The search functions of Vista alone remove all need for clicking through layers of start menus, even often allowing me to not have to touch the mouse - this alone makes XP feel like an antique. Do NOT believe all the knee-jerk garbage you're hearing about Vista, as 90% of it is being pulled out of thin air by people who obviously never even tried it. Meanwhile, we Vista users are walking around in DX10 games that look like movies. Dig up all the screen shots of Windows 7 you can find on the internet - take note that the title is "Windows 7" but the version number is 6.1.

Little id you know that nearly EVERY Microsoft product that comes out is extensively tested by a public usability testing program that is totally seperate from their beta testing program. Some of the few remaining software products currently being described as "Non-Vista compatible" can be made to work under Vista if you do a little reading and tweaking.Fact: Before SP1 came out for XP, XP ran like crap and had tons of compatibility problems. You have a choice of slipping into even more obsolescence with XP (which is just Windows 2000 with lipstick, a 9 year old product) or you can move forward with Vista and Win7. And that soon you will need a new OS to even be able to operate the dual quads already on the market and the dual octo-core systems right arounnd the corner. And that XP absolutely crawled on our systems when it first came out and that we all complained about it. Not Unix.

Linux and Apple trolls scour the internet for chances to add negative reviews to an operating system they'v never even tried. I have personally done usability testing at Microsoft 17 times now (I like to get my 2 cents in), and I know how this process works. So get used to Vista. Vista is just the latest victim.I have absolutely no love affair with Microsoft, trust me. If you're just running Windows Defender, I guarentee you're LOADED with it and don't even know it - get better software immediately.Fact: Though complaints about Vista's UAC are many, the Internet is not filled with Vista users begging to be saved from viruses and spyware they can't recover from. Then there are the XP hypocrites who have been using XP for so long that they fear anything new.Hypocrytes you say. It's as easy as un-checking a checkbox in Control Panel (User Accounts).

Vista was OK'd by both internal and external beta testers in addition to the usability test program, or it never would have been released. Not Mac. I might even be able to run old 16 bit apps now, haven't tried that yet. I can run any Win32 program I want in Vista that I install, and as of SP1. Everybody hated each of them until the next version of Windows came along. Microsoft had been working feverishly on this OS for 6 years at the time of its release. Thanks to the freeware release of VDMSound, I am running old DOS games under Vista with full sound. Windows Vista is version 6.0.

You oughtta see Crysis with dual nVidias running SLI.Fact: Think you don't like Vista. For me personally, Vista has been spoiling me rotten since SP1 came out. And that Vista runs at virtually the same speed as XP once booted up - only with tons of new features. Fact: Windows Vista was in development a whole year before Windows XP was even released.

New operating systems are about new features, not "running faster" on the same hardware (anybody that knows anything about operating systems knows that new versions are NEVER faster than the previous version, no matter what operating system it is - just take a look at any Linux distro or new version of any Mac OS). Every time I get up from my Vista machines and sit down on my XP machines, it feels like I'm sitting down on a machine in "Safe Mode". But it's time for an actual professional with a masters in programming and operating systems to set a few things straight. Then you already know that Direct3D (DirectX) 10 is Vista-only.

It's up to HARDWARE to make things run faster, not the OS. Fact: For its entire life, the virus magnet that is known as Windows XP has been solely responsible for the onslaught of spyware, malware and waves of viruses. Those poor souls are pretty much all XP users.

Thankfully there is a lot of information online showing how to do all of this, but it shouldn't be so necessary.I'm not sure why anyone would pay for Vista as an upgrade or stand alone OS installation if they have a choice. Even with 2 GB I had to do a lot of streamlining, tuning, and tweaking to get Vista to run smoothly. I've never found one file on my notebook using Search. Maybe by SP3 the people at MS will have this thing straightened out, but of course by then they'll have moved on to their next OS nightmare, expecting all of us to come along too. I upgraded to 2 GB in order to make it usable. I wouldn't have bought it voluntarily, but a few months ago I needed a new notebook and had a hard time finding what I wanted with XP installed on it.

What can you say for a new OS in which one of the most basic functions---Search---is literally unable to find files by their exact names. Forgive me for clinging to the antiquated idea that this is the software designers' job, not mine. So I took a chance on one with Vista. Even though I'm aware that Microsoft and their PC manufacturer hostages always pull this trick, it still rankles when an expensive new business notebook is pretty much useless for basic word / email / spreadsheet programs with 1 gb of ram installed. What fools we all are. What I found is that the negative commentary about Vista is all too true; if anything, Vista's critics are too kind.

And although Vista's graphical interface is undeniably attractive (this explains my 2 stars), most notebooks don't come with the memory to run it.

For my purposes it would not help me in anyway, but when I order more Macs, I will most certainly install Vista on all of them. Point is, vista is a great improvement over xp. I purchased an OEM product for about 100.00 less.Final word - Is it worth updating xp. I've installed Vista on Mac using "Boot Camp" for the purpose of running one business software that I own. OEM software is great because it does not come with any, nada, nothing, no junk software and it is about half the price at NewEgg. Running Visa in Virtual - i think - is awesome and you can easily allocate addtional RAM on the fly.I would admit that vista is slightly buggy compared to xp and installing a wireless Lexmark commercial printer was a breeze using vista. Vista works flawlessly both native and Virtual on the IMac 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme 4GB RAM allocating only 32GB to the partition - I would recommend about 80 GB. It was almost as quick as the Mac and xp takes about 45 minutes to set up.