I tried it once, but just found it so counter-intuitive that I went out of my way to buy a ThinkPad with XP. Since XP support is going to continue for the next 5-6 years and Windows 7 is just around the corner, I don't see any reason to use "the next ME".

Speaking of Windows 7:

Here's a video of its touch capabilities -

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A video of the Software-Plus-Services concept -

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...and finally, the Windows 7 news site -

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It's still early, but it looks like 7 will be to Vista what XP was to ME.

I have Vista at home, and both Vista and XP at work (on virtual machines). I'm running Visual Studio, SQL 2005 Express, Microsoft Office, and PGP on all of them.

I've had absolutely no problems with Vista. In fact, I was surprised that I had almost no driver issues at all; the only update I needed was for my Sony Handicam. Even my ancient 100 MB USB ZIP drive was recognized without any driver downloads. That was a shocker.

With enough RAM (and especially video memory), performance is really quite snappy.

After seven months of use, Vista has never blue-screened on me. I can't say that for any XP machine I've ever used.

~Russ

Just bought a brand new laser printer for the office. Drivers shipping today were incompatible with our one Vista user.

We just plan to buy Vista biz licenses and "downgrade" to XP for as long as possible. Microsoft needs to trash this dog just like it did "Bob" and "Clippy" and OS/2 Warp (yeah, I know.. that was IBM).

Buy lots of Apple stock. They will retake the home market. We just swapped our two home PCs for two iMacs, and I'm going to get an iPhone on July 11.

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Steve Drevik, Commission Seat 4-B
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This really makes me want to try it out though...

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My machine can handle AoC (E8400, 8800GTS G92 & 4gig RAM - overclocked to 3.6ghz) but I usually play MMOs with my 11yr old son. The mature rating and over-the-top violence (and other stuff) means this will not be a game I'll play.

Warhammer is a LOT of fun and will be even better by release. I don't expect anything else to get my attention.

and so far all is working well except my printer (HP deskjet 6840) has been taking itself offline occasionally. Not entirely sure it's because of Vista, but my laptop, which has XP on it, doesn't do this.

Overall pleasantly surprised that my Vista experience is better than what I'd read about it. Was going to have XP installed but the guy who built my computer recommended I go with Vista and I'm glad I did. I don't do much as complicated as others on this list, though.

Didn't I read that MS decided to extend their support of XP until 2014?

If you do use Vista buy a USB memory stick and use Ready Boost. It helps.

Vista looks great. But it is dog slow. Very good feature set. But not good enough to buy a new computer.

In an environment supporting thousands of users, we are fighting to keep XP as our desktop environment. Thus far, Vista has not shown that it can support our myriad desktop applications, especially those that run in a manufacturing environment. Also, it is such a resource hog that it will require us to refresh thousands of shop floor PCs. Unfortunately, since we are a Microsoft Partner, we will at some point be forced to move all of those PCs to Vista once Microsoft mandates that we do. It wasn't until last month that we finally got rid of all of our NT4 boxes and NT domain controllers. The large enterprise moves much slower than Microsoft (at least this one does).

I use Mac OS 10.4. It's the Tiger version. No problems at all.

Pam Strickland

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." ~Kurt Vonnegut

I'm using it at home and have been for about 7 months now. Vista Ultimate x64 to be precise. It took some getting used to but I'm happy with the move.

So far, we are only using Vista on a test machine. Our software has to run on it. Changes were definitely required. I believe more changes were required for this OS upgrade than any we have encountered in the 15 or so years we have published software.