is there any point installing vista right now when the next release is just around the corner?

Question

bored of xp; so any point installing vista now? ive tried it before when it first came out and it drove me potty, but now in the year 2009 after what, 2 years of release. has it improved in any way?

Answer 1

If your computer was designed for XP, DON'T install Vista - you'll be very unhappy. It's improved, but it still needs a lot more computer than XP to run properly. (You can't make an operating system smaller and lighter - all you can do is fix bugs and add features.)



Wait for Windows 7 full release. It should have the advantages of Vista, but be able to run well on XP-era hardware.

Answer 2

Give 7 a go. It's more or less fully functional and at least for my setup works as well if not better than XP. Certainly better than Vista ever could.



edit: and I HAVE had Vista on this computer (Ultimate SP1) and it sucked donkey balls trying to get anything done.



Computer is:

Mach Speed MSVN-939 Mother Board

AMD Athlon X2 3800+ 2.01 GHz (OC to 2.30 GHz)

Biostar nVidia GeForce 7100GS (Dual 19" CRTs)

2 GB of Kingston Dual Channel PC3200 DDR 400 MHz

2x 250 GB Seagate Barracuda SATA II

1x 120 GB Western Digital SATA I

Answer 3

HI, Assume that Windows 7 is released mid-year, it will probably take a good few months of fixes and patches to become sufficiently stable, and then it will take some time after that for all the necessary driver updates from third party manufacturers.



Vista is now very stable (as is XP) and the retail price will be dropping quite nicely as people put off upgrading pending the new system. It could be worthwhile upgrading to offset XP going out of support, and allow you to play with the newer features.

Answer 4

Microsoft has fixed many of vistas major issues, but it still takes up a huge amount of resources to run it.

I am actually writing this on my computer that is currently running windows 7 (the new one thats about to come out)

and it uses literally half the resources as vista.



also if you want to upgrade to vista i dont recommend doing so without at least a dual core possessor and at least 2 gigs of ram

Answer 5

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Answer 6

i've used vista on some friends and family's newer computers, its not that much different than xp for the basics. it has alot more features though that old computers probably couldn't handle. thats why i never upgraded

Answer 7

Yuck, Vista is REALLY bad. Stay with XP :D

Answer 8

No, just do what I did. Customise to the max

download some programs like objectdock

samurize

rainlendar

make your own icons

that kind of thing

Answer 9

yes it has but not so much for gaming so if your a gamer i wouldn't go for it