Been running the new RTM os on a couple of machines over the past few days, and this is my verdict.

Where it looks very nice if you have the hardware, its still very buggy.
I keep getting errors of "Com Surrogate has Stopped Responding", Cant communicate with my NAS via SMB, even when I mess with the settings in Secpol.
Explorer crashes more times than Win95a.
Very quick file searches, has the potential to be very very good.
But just falls short.
Running Bit Torrent seems to get the oss knickers in a twist too.

Shame.  Stuck with XP for a while longer I think.

Vista - Mac OS 95

Cue another 5 Mac/linux fanboy posts

Ill be switching once I upgrade my system, the full release will work well.

This is the full release.  Its the RTM, non beta, posted on the MSDN suscriber website version.  Full fat, not abused by any outside source.

Its very buggy still, and shouldnt be considered as a RC.

Ill wait another 4-6 months I think... still waiting on Hauppage to release some decent Vista drivers anyways. (Vista MCE is fantastic imo)

Im sure the final release will be whiz bang and allow for unintentional mayonnaising of young boys underpants, as long as you meet the hardware requirements. Hey I dont even mind XP, once you eviscerate it, and cut out the weak parts, and ones that invade your privacy. But for all of the rectal digital massage that Vista offers, it also seems to promise "to get all up in yo bidness" as we say down here.

Vista offers no compelling and revolutionary changes compared to XP. Whatever, makes no difference. MS will make money from licensing anyway, and MS Office will continue its lumbering across the landscape, surviving soley on sucking the remains of young lovers from Volkswagon Beetles.

To sum up, a small sketch:
Customer: Can this computer run my favorite internet browser?
Tech: Yeah.
Customer: Can I steal porn and watch said porn on it?
Tech: Uh, huh.
Customer: Ring it up.

Quote from: KunalIll wait another 4-6 months I think... still waiting on Hauppage to release some decent Vista drivers anyways. (Vista MCE is fantastic imo)

Although maxi has a point, itll just be more junk filled than xp.

These days you have to keep up with the times. I for one will look forward to having a legitimate OS that I can keep updated, supports all the latest hardware, 64-bit, applications, etc. and be safe in the knowledge I wont need to bother changing it until post 2010.

Quote from: Clockd 0NeThese days you have to keep up with the times. I for one will look forward to having a legitimate OS that I can keep updated, supports all the latest hardware, 64-bit, applications, etc. and be safe in the knowledge I wont need to bother changing it until post 2010.

Oh, you mean an updated and patched XP?

Well the past few windows have been awful with both bugs and security flaws until after atleast the first or even second (windows nt) service pack.

I very much doubt vista will be any different, this is how ms works, let the users find the bugs.

I will let it settle until at least the first service pack.

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Quote from: Clockd 0NeThese days you have to keep up with the times. I for one will look forward to having a legitimate OS that I can keep updated, supports all the latest hardware, 64-bit, applications, etc. and be safe in the knowledge I wont need to bother changing it until post 2010.

Oh, you mean an updated and patched XP?

Indeed, xp 64 people do not give much credit for, 9 months before I needed to re-instal due to just well probably due with some explorer.exe pains.
I have had one driver issue and that was only with my mobile phone software, still the memory card picks up and basically All i have sued it for, Not had any other driver issue, tell a lie, the left right click of the MS mouse no driver for, but these are small things you can more then likley have with vista ^^
xp 64 for a good load of months for me

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Quote from: maximusotter

Quote from: Clockd 0NeThese days you have to keep up with the times. I for one will look forward to having a legitimate OS that I can keep updated, supports all the latest hardware, 64-bit, applications, etc. and be safe in the knowledge I wont need to bother changing it until post 2010.

Oh, you mean an updated and patched XP?

Indeed, xp 64 people do not give much credit for, 9 months before I needed to re-instal due to just well probably due with some explorer.exe pains.
I have had one driver issue and that was only with my mobile phone software, still the memory card picks up and basically All i have sued it for, Not had any other driver issue, tell a lie, the left right click of the MS mouse no driver for, but these are small things you can more then likley have with vista ^^
xp 64 for a good load of months for me

Been drinking nexus? that was hard work to read

Give it a year or 2 service packs, then ill THINK about it.  Until then ill definatly stick with XP.  I only moved off 2k when it dropped out of the primary support phase.

Its not gonna be perfect out of the box, but no one expects it to be, knowing Microsoft. Ill probably wait a few months (dx10 card is first on the list) to see how it pans out, but it definitely looks well getting.

Hardware requirements isnt really an issue, the only minor sticking point is the dx9 requirement, but a Ã,£20 gfx cardll do that.

i am going to wait 2 years till after release, so its stable and all my 3d programs have made the switch. aint worth the license if i cant get money from it