How many people are buying VISTA any time this year or in the future?

Answer 1

a lot poople

Answer 2

MM K Like I don't have to buy it cause I just bought a new puter that has a rebate for receiving the Vista Operating System Free lmao. There are a lot of people buying it though. But with so many different operating systems coming out just go with what you will like. I'd TRY IT before you buy it kinda thing

Answer 3

Not me! Ive tried RC1, and found it to be nothing but a hindrance.

The hardware demands are over the top.

I have two <6 month old workstations, and a brand new Toshiba laptop with vista installed.
None of them received a significant "score" on vista's rating system.

The new, direct x based window manager eats most of your memory. Just under a 100MB with a handful of windows open.

Also OpenGL is severely slowed in RC1, because they are routing it through DirectX, in an obvious attempt to discourage its use.

The readyboost didn't like any of the usb pens I offered it.
The so called Superfetch service did its best to saturate almost all available ram with things I didn't ask it to do. Now, yes, if you open the exact same programs constantly, like a robot, I'm sure it will be faster than loading from disk. However, I found it a major slow down when I attempt to open any java applications, or, anything for that matter.

The explorer windows are laggy, and not at all intuitive.

The advanced indexing service vista uses means your hard disk light literally never stops flashing. No exaggeration here. You stop your mouse for a few seconds, and its off, uncovering files you may never look for.
From personal experience, I rarely search for files, because I put them in a place I can easily retrieve them from.
If you like to index things, you need to look into something like Google Desktop.

Oh! And not to mention UAC(User Account Control).
Its a foolish attempt to implement something like the latest linux distros have.

The idea is to request for a superuser/root/admin password, whenever something dangerous is going on. For instance, installing a program for all users, or changing system settings.

The vista implementation will pop this damned box up many, many times when you are copying to/from your usb drive, opening a file it doesnt like(yes, clearly intended for internet downloaded executables, but not working like this), and changing ANY preference.

Its beyond belief. Whats more, you dont even need a password. You just need to click "Proceed". The whole attention span given to such boxes are reduced when they are so common place. Its just another annoyance.

Yes, you can disable this, using msconfig, but your then plagued with bubble messages on the taskbar, with the security manager complaining.

Also trouble with IE and Java(sandbox is far to strict).


Okay, so what do you have? Ignoring most of above...

You have Windows XP, with more proprietary software, more user restrictions, LESS backward compatibility.
Very few of my games, peripherals, etc worked.

The 64bit version, I believe, removes support for 16bit apps. I am not sure if this is still so, however.

Ah, and a bit of eye candy, that DOES annoy. Trust me, I'm a sucker for eye candy, but its so counter productive you'll have it back in the old theme within a day.

As a final summary, to this long rant...

Vista is Windows XP, with worse performance(speed wise), significantly less backward compatibility(wont run a LOT of XP applications), more propriety tricks, LESS intuitive user interface, a collection of system degrading "indexing" services, and yet another price tag.

My advice is to stay with Windows XP until you really can't. Windows XP has a Microsoft Support period of a good few years yet, to my knowledge.

The other option is to turn to Linux. If so, Ubuntu is the way to go. It worked pretty much immediately, with just a few problems. Mainly with Hibernating and Suspend.

As much as I like Linux I'd be lying if I said its for users who don't have a nerdy friend, or you are one.
It is well on its way to taking the role of a Desktop OS though. A few years more maturing time, I think.
And a bit more support from hardware companies wouldn't hurt.

Answer 4

Mac OS X Leopard is going to sell more than Vista ever can.