Why on earth would ANYONE buy Vista?!?!

pault123

I posted this in another thread but I would like some more response

I work in IT Sales and am avoiding Vista like the plague, someone give me some valid reasons as to why I would go out and waste £50-£300 on it?

Its going to be full of bugs and program incompatilbilities like every other version of windows on first release.

.......and don't mention pretty aero graphics as a benefit. I use XP pro, it works, its very fast, rarely crashes and I don't see any reason to change. All these people buying Vista must be mad!

The only benefit I can see in the long term future and I'm thinking 1 -2 years is that Vista will support DirectX10.

DX10 is going to be useful for gamers (who will also need to buy an expensive DX10 card to boot

http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductsList.asp?Name=8800

but until a game comes out I want which NEEDS DX10 and Vista to work I really don't see the point.

DX10 card £300

+

http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductsList.a...=SOF-66R-00020

If you insist on Vista then ultimate would be the one to get £360

= £660

Hmmmmm anyone else with me on XP pro ?


Ps. Microsoft only recently stopped providing support for Windows 98!!!

Xp pro will have support for a long time to come

[Deleted User]

Because people want Bill Gates to gold plate his latest yacht?

trace_567

I agree with you totally. Why buy something thats going to be completely full of holes for hackers to get through. The older versions of windows are the safest sometimes as glitches, holes etc have been long found and windows updates patch the holes. Vista holes won't be found till a hacker finds them.

cwoodham

I agree. When Windows 95, 98 and XP came out I always waited at least a year after initial release before installing so that the worst of the bugs had been ironed out.

xio

pault123 wrote:

Its going to be full of bugs and program incompatilbilities like every other version of windows on first release.

.......and don't mention pretty aero graphics as a benefit. I use XP pro, it works, its very fast, rarely crashes and I don't see any reason to change. All these people buying Vista must be mad!

The main reason for changing is that Vista, being the current/future Operating System, will be the platform that all future software will be designed for. XP support won't be droppped, but it will no longer be the major OS. Add that to the fact that you have a totally redesigned code base within the OS, making it a hell of a lot more secure than XP, from a system point of view, and gives you some excellent functionality over XP.

As for Aero, it is beneficial, if you have a decent graphics card - it offloads the GUI drawing to the GPU rather than labouring the CPU - leaving it free cycles for other, more important things. Of course, if you don't have a powerful enough graphics solution, then its not an issue as Aero will be disabled by default. No problems.

The only benefit I can see in the long term future and I'm thinking 1 -2 years is that Vista will support DirectX10.

DX10 is going to be useful for gamers (who will also need to buy an expensive DX10 card to boot

http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductsList.asp?Name=8800

but until a game comes out I want which NEEDS DX10 and Vista to work I really don't see the point.

You are comparing current, first generation HIGH END DirectX 10 cards, which will naturally be expensive. Where, as you said yourself, it will be at least a year before it takes full hold in the market - at which point there will be mid range DX10 graphics solutions at a far more reasonable price point.

http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductsList.a...=SOF-66R-00020

If you insist on Vista then ultimate would be the one to get £360

= £660

Hmmmmm anyone else with me on XP pro ?

Why Ultimate? Do you have need for Remote Desktop Server? Domain joining for Windows Server edition? ISS Web server? Chances are, probably not.

For 99% of home users, Home Premium edition will be more than enough for everything. And as for price, if you plan on upgrading your current PC to Vista and leaving it at that, then the OEM edition will be fine @ about £80.

Its not as bad as you make out.

moonrakerz

It's new - gotta have it ! That's why.

Gib_Gib

I was supprised how nice that the media player runs through Vista home premium and ultimate (going on the beta version). If I was going to run a HTPC, Vista is head and shoulders above MCE.

If you are buying a ready built pc today that you are going to use for the next 2/3years, I would wait for Vista.

Upgrading your pc, I would probably wait a month or so at least.

The beta version I used was pretty stable.

And if you were going to buy Vista Ultimate at the same time as that gfx card, you would just buy yourself the OEM version and save yourself £130.

But I agree with XIO and I am buying the home premium version.

Blacksheep1979

Its because its new and shiny and more so that people are told that they need it - just like they needed a pentium processor with ht technology - what did ht technology do? Well the pcw shop staff sure as hell didn't know, nor did 99.9% of consumers. Then it was you must have a 64 bit cpu - caus as its 64 bit its twice as powerful, even though 99.999% of people didn't run a 64bit os.

Its all to do with what the media tells you that you need.

impecunious

I am in complete agreement with the majority of others whereby I shall wait and see how it all pans out. Obviously as a bloke (and much to the wife's annoyance of course!) I LOVE new gadgets, but I always wait 6-12 months, mainly for financial reasons.

What has been troubling me of Vista is that Microsoft have been very cagey in releasing the necessary code so that the security issues are covered. What's the point of installing this new OS when it's going to be open to attack?

j_davies

To go with the shiny 4 x 4

mostly

i like new boxes.