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After a month of using Vista Home Premium, I have had no problems, even with stuff like DVDShrink, and I am enjoying it perfectly well.

You Lie! Clearly MS has made a deal with you to convince innocent bystanders to use Vista!

No but seriously, I think a lot of the issues have slowly gone away. Of course MS changed a bunch of stuff, which means learning a few things, but thats normal for them. They did the same stuff with 2000 and XP.

ElTaco wrote:No but seriously, I think a lot of the issues have slowly gone away.

Yes. Formatting and re-installing XP has been known to do that.

What exactly is the benefit to "upgrading" to Vista anyway?

ElTaco wrote:You Lie! Clearly MS has made a deal with you to convince innocent bystanders to use Vista!

No but seriously, I think a lot of the issues have slowly gone away. Of course MS changed a bunch of stuff, which means learning a few things, but thats normal for them. They did the same stuff with 2000 and XP.

and 98 and 95.

BSmack wrote:What exactly is the benefit to "upgrading" to Vista anyway?

The pleasure of DRM.

I'm no MS fanboy. I was going to hold out as long as I could. Even as I had the new box in the shopping cart, I was telling myself that I'd be installing Ubuntu on a partition ASAP.

I haven't had a need to as of yet.

Friend of mine who bought a new box with win vista in it no longer could use adobe acrobat professional 6.0. Quite pissed about it.

My next box will be XPpro upgrade, when they do it. No vista for me until they fucking fix it.

While I feel for your friend, is it reasonable to expect that they support a version of adobe software that is 2 full releases into a dirt nap?

So you have a problem with stable functional releases and you think backwards compatability is wrong?

XP seems to have no issue with any release of AA. Why should vista?

They bought a basic box with just the new version of Vista and no add ons, and since they owned Windows office 2003 already they didn't bother with the latest version of that, and - shocker - Vista handles THAT program with no problem.

Funny, how acrobat 6 was released roughly about the same time and yet.....

How much do you work with acrobat? I don't think I've ever seen a program that presented more configuratioon difficulty than Acobat.

Remember, I really have no interest in shining up to MS - none whatsoever.

I've been wrestling with Acrobat for years. I detest it. I use FoxIt for my reader software, and I create PDFs directly with PDF Creator. I author and edit PDFs with Illustrator.

What I'm saying is that getting Acrobat to work is generally iffy. I don't see it as a bellwether for Vista, based on experience past and present.

Been using acrobat to make PDFs for over two years with XP Pro. I've never had an issue, except that MS.dot files are unusable, but that's a MS problem.

Just upgrade from Vista to XP and you'll never look back!

http://dotnet.org.za/codingsanity/archi ... ws-xp.aspx

" Review: Windows XP

I have finally decided to take the plunge. Last night I upgraded my Vista desktop machine to Windows XP, and this afternoon I will be doing the same to my laptop.

Look & Feel

Windows XP has quite a cartoony look and feel compared to the slick look of Aero Glass, this is mostly offset by the lack of strange screen artifacts caused by malfunctioning graphics code. You know, almost like static on the screen. This was a once or twice monthly occurance on my laptop, and happened on my desktop whenever I logged in, and also whenever I played a 3D game after leaving Vista running for a couple of hours. I also miss the "orphaned windows" I got on Vista, dialog boxes that would not go away, in a sense they became part of the desktop, since you could drag a selection from within them, despite the fact that the Glass would render the selection below them. Such crazy graphics bugs appear to be a thing of the past."
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