Windows Vista

I havent used it or seen it yet, but heard some positive feedbacks about it. Critics say Microsoft has tried to copy Mac. I need to upgrade my system first, then i might go for the vista

I have not tried or loaded vista yet. I am probably going to wait until I get a new computer and get vista pre-installed on it. so It will probably be about a year for me before I check it out.

What specs does your new computer have? I wonder if an older computer could handle it. What all is different in Vista compared to XP? I really want a new computer too!

I have not heard much about it as yet. I wanted to hear what other people had to say first. I'm not one to run out and get the newest things.

I did.It is different than Xp in any asspect.GUI looks nicer,very stable.You need to have powerfull PC for this OS.

Yes I have evaluated it for a friend. Right now this OS is very irritating, may be after complains so many patches will be released and than only it will become perfect like in all previous releases of Microsoft Corporation. I will give just one example. Vista has got it's own antivirous & antispyware. When any application within your system tries to connect to internet security suit informs you this, you deny permission & attempt is stoped. But it will keep on coming every time either there is attempt of same intrusion which you denied permission from inside or outside security will be popping up because their is no setting as "remember this setting" this is very irritating. Is it not?

I have not bought Windows Vista yet as I am waiting to find out how good it really is and if there are flaws with it like new operating systems usually have when they first come out. Plus my computer would not be able to hold it so I will probably buy a new computer at some point. Eventually I will get it but for now I am happy with XP. I have IE 7 on my computer right now and seems to work fine and like the tabbed browsing.

I have not wanted to do more than look I want to find out the problems with it first.

The best buy geek squad was on the radio answering questions about Vista the other morning, all I heard of the convo was that vista wasnt great with supplying adequate parental controls.If there arent any kids on your puter I guess you're fine!

I have heard so much about it, but I don't think we have that one yet. Maybe we do, I don't know. My husband handles the computer stuff and I am never aware of what he does to our computers.

i havnt tried it but i hav heard about it its a nice OS i hav also seen the demo of this

Windows Vista clearly is not a great new performer when it comes to executing single applications at maximum speed. Although we only looked at the 32-bit version of Windows Vista Enterprise, we do not expect the 64-bit edition to be faster (at least not with 32-bit applications). Overall, applications performed as expected, or executed slightly slower than under Windows XP. The synthetic benchmarks such as Everest, PCMark05 or Sandra 2007 show that differences are non-existent on a component level. We also found some programs that refused to work, and others that seem to cause problems at first but eventually ran properly. In any case, we recommend watching for Vista-related software upgrades from your software vendors. There are some programs that showed deeply disappointing performance. Unreal Tournament 2004 and the professional graphics benchmarking suite SPECviewperf 9.03 suffered heavily from the lack of support for the OpenGL graphics library under Windows Vista. This is something we expected, and we clearly advise against replacing Windows XP with Windows Vista if you need to run professional graphics applications. Both ATI and Nvidia will offer OpenGL support in upcoming driver releases, but it remains to be seen if and how other graphics vendors or Microsoft may offer it. We are disappointed that CPU-intensive applications such as video transcoding with XviD (DVD to XviD MPEG4) or the MainConcept H.264 Encoder performed 18% to nearly 24% slower in our standard benchmark scenarios. Both benchmarks finished much quicker under Windows XP. There aren't newer versions available, and we don't see immediate solutions to this issue. There is good news as well: we did not find evidence that Windows Vista's new and fancy AeroGlass interface consumes more energy than Windows XP's 2D desktop. Although our measurements indicate a 1 W increase in power draw at the plug, this is too little of a difference to draw any conclusions. Obviously, the requirements for displaying all elements in 3D, rotating and moving them aren't enough to heat up graphics processors. This might also be a result of Windows Vista's more advanced implementation of ACPI 2.0 (and parts of 3.0), which allows the control of power of system components separately. Our hopes that Vista might be able to speed up applications are gone. First tests with 64-bit editions result in numbers similar to our 32-bit results, and we believe it's safe to say that users looking for more raw performance will be disappointed with Vista. Vista is the better Windows, because it behaves better, because it looks better and because it feels better. But it cannot perform better than Windows XP. Is this a K.O. for Windows Vista in the enthusiast space? If you really need your PC to finish huge encoding, transcoding or rendering workloads within a defined time frame, yes, it is. Don't do it; stay with XP. But as long as you don't need to finish workloads in record time, we believe it makes sense to consider these three bullet points: * Vista runs considerably more services and thus has to spend somewhat more resources on itself. Indexing, connectivity and usability don't come for free. * There is a lot of CPU performance available today! We've got really fast dual core processors, and even faster quad cores will hit the market by the middle of the year. Even though you will lose application performance by upgrading to Vista, today's hardware is much faster than yesterday's, and tomorrow's processors will clearly leap even further ahead. * No new Windows release has been able to offer more application performance than its predecessor. Although application performance has had this drawback, the new Windows Vista performance features SuperFetch and ReadyDrive help to make Vista feel faster and smoother than Windows XP. Our next article will tell you how they work.

Yeah... thats what the same question I had posted on my blog... But anyways, I dont have Windows Vista and I would love to have it... I think its so cool and I think its lot sexieer than XP...