When Vista rolls out what are you going to do?

In the course off time i will migrate everything to linux, even my hand-calculator.
I'm still using XPpro on one box until i've got it all sorted out.

Lamehand

 

I'll get it pre-installed on a new machine. I've been holding off buying a new one until it's released.

 

I think MS are trying to address that with their OneCare product. Admittedly, one needs to subscribe to it.

 

myself i will stick with xp as long as it is supported. i also have a mac mini that i have to say is really a great little machine and the osx operating system is pretty darn good i may possibly go mac all the way it is kind of nice not having every security program known to man on this system just to surf the net.

 

will completely switchover to linux.i have migrated haifway now..

 

Couldn't have said it better myself, the longer I wait...the more bugs they will find and you know M$, they will wait till the horse is well out of the barn to patch it.

 

Interesting poll... I chose the last selection mainly because I still don't understand what advantages, if any, Vista would bring me. I have a relatively new PC, but it will only support a 32-bit version of Vista, so the advantages of a 64-bit O/S are not realizable for me. Vista32 would have to bring real functional benefits to me to make it worthwhile.

Besides my forum participation, other surfing and email, my personal computer use is with various photo-editing apps. Would Vista bring anything to the table that would benefit those kind of applications?

~pv

 

Hi.... One of my pc's is on W2k, and I still used SafeXP on it. Some options were greyed out since these were only XP-related, but others are useful on W2k too.

 

I don't know much about Vista. Is it especially awful compared to XP or other previous MS OS's?

 

i guess youd have to define awful.

Windows Vista: The Features
Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: Windows Vista FAQ

im going to be using nlite (if it works), so bye-bye excess junk and ill be using windowblinds so the aero interface isnt as important.

 

HI. I had never heard of pcBSD. I might give it a try. I got discouraged with Linux (Mandrake at the time) when I couldn't get it to install on a Sony Laptop. Do you think I'd get a chance to install pcbsd on it? Are there enough modern drivers that come with it?

It would be really great! BSD has the reputation to be the most secure OS around. I guess pcBSD would be too. What do you think?

Can you do as many things with it as you can with MS's OS's? Any particular limitation?

 

Wait a few months up to a year is my current plan. This would be due to the 'bugs' that have already been stated here. However, my hardware is getting along in years and an upgrade is needed....or is the correct word WANTED

Quick is Mrs. Mercurie looking.

 

I won't own a machine with any form of DRM. What M$ calls "features" I don't want. They can keep Vista. I'll stay with 98 and continue to explore Linux and BSD. That PCBSD does look worth checking into.
If things ever get to the point of having to use Vista or the equivalent in order to have internet access, then I will do without the net.
Rick

 

Linux does has driver problems and hardware issue is more prominant for laptops.
See this site

http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/

 

...so I am not misunderstood...all XP machines will be kept. I am talking about new hardware with new Vista operating system. No need to trash perfectly good XP machines.

 

Likewise! Vista is already a joke because they quickly already ignore the other OS's from their camp and with issues they prefer to bury them under the rug and hurry the drawing board for something new to draw attention.

Not good IMO. But then i drawed the last microsoft OS breath i'm ever going to take along with all the built-in anxiety, i too am experimenting heavily with other alternative OS's even though i will keep and utilize XP Pro etc. so long as the HIPS programs keep rolling out.

 

Hi...What's HIPS programs?

 

Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System.

Some explanation here.

http://www.secureworks.com/techResourceCenter/hackers-sidestep-front-door.html

 

I'll stick with XP for at least another year.
I don't like the trend or particularly trust M$.
I'd have to look really hard at Vista....I wouldn't jump to it without a lot of thought and research!

 

On this box I stay with XP (and Linux).
When I think I have to buy or make another machine I'll think it over.

Gerard

 

I'll stay with XP as long as possible, not for loyalty towards the OS or MS, but it is simply the the one I know and feel at home with.

Changing to another system is time consuming and not an exciting proposition if you are not a computer enthusiast.

 

I agree with you.
If you change, the change has to be a sensational improvement and not a nightmare.

 

Personally i do like XP Pro and i know Home Edition is not that much different. I been able to incorporate many 98/Me desktop enhancements like DOCKS and icon changables and that, theres even a 3-dimensional window that's been around since 98 that Microsoft is going to be including into Vista which IS quite nice but why waste your good money and earnings on a whole new system when developers have made many of these treats already available for FREE!!! and since 98!

 

Already got my vista on order, as soon as it comes out I will be installing it.

 

I'll probably stick with Windows XP Pro for a month or two, then start playing with Kubuntu.