Fellow photographers have told me to stay away from Windows Vista. I have XP, and it's fine. Any thoughts?

Question

I was looking forward to trying the new program, but have heard terrible things about it. Since I work with Adobe Photoshop, I would need to know its compatibility with Vista. A computer builder told me of the woes of many other photographers that have tried Vista.

Answer 1

For me i would stay with Windows XP. That is at least till all the bugs are worked out with it. Once Windows Vista is completely bug free or is at least not terrible like it is now i would switch up. But for now I believe XP is better for anyone who has a professional job. I do not believe Photoshop is currently usable for Vista. I believe this because Vista just recently came out and Adobe has not had time to make adaptions to its software Or add a patch to their page. I would wait a year or two before upgrading. New windows software can be buggy.

Answer 2

Many adobe Products are not working with Vista, (old Adobe Products versions), but the new Adobe CS3 works just fine! with Vista i believe. I run them on my Mac.

I had Photoshop Cs2 but it didn't run on my PC with Vista i had to re-install XP

Answer 3

kk first off, vista is an operating system, harder to install than a program(prob 1) second VERY LITTLE XP PROGRAMS work with vista. adobe photo shop dosnt even work with its compatibility mode. wait for a vista-capable photoshop, and al your other programsd, before migrating it all to vista!

Answer 4

Give vista alittle more time. vista is having allot of driver problems and compatibility problems. I would wait until they come out with there first service pack.

Answer 5

Considering all the questions I have seen just in here, I would recommend staying with what you have for now. Remember when windows 98 came out that first time? Nothing but headaches until they worked out all the bugs...2 years later. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Keep up with what you have until you KNOW it works properly. Good luck!!!