Anyone getting VISTA

startrekker

Sure, facts is fact, and without the facts there is no fact!!!
Without my xp to me my pc is nothing, as I am certainly not intelligent enough to get to grips with any other op system that may require more brain power than I am willing to give........or have:D
Im not saying that other os are any harder but as long as I can switch mine on and happily do what I do then Im ok...;) In that respect Microsoft is ok by me

mummyyummy_2

heard on the news there that eventually vista will be ttly replacing xp and we'll all eventually have to change? is this right?? hope not, otherwise ill have no comp as cant afford the £ to change over. I have no idea about technical things like this at all, can someone in the "know" enlighten me about this pls?? my xx

startrekker

xp apparently will be still supported up to 2012 so there life still in it yet, but dont forget some people still use win 95, ME AND 3.5

j_davies

mummyyummy wrote:

heard on the news there that eventually vista will be ttly replacing xp and we'll all eventually have to change? is this right?? hope not, otherwise ill have no comp as cant afford the £ to change over. I have no idea about technical things like this at all, can someone in the "know" enlighten me about this pls?? my xx

This is rubbish 100% How would a company force you to change a operating system its common sense I mean an employee of MS isnt going to appear on your doorstep and collar you, who ever told you this has been sniffing glue.

wolfman

mummyyummy wrote:

heard on the news there that eventually vista will be ttly replacing xp and we'll all eventually have to change? is this right?? hope not, otherwise ill have no comp as cant afford the £ to change over. I have no idea about technical things like this at all, can someone in the "know" enlighten me about this pls?? my xx

You're free to keep XP on your PC for as long as you want.

Microsoft will be supporting it until 2011 so you have nothing to worry about.

superscaper

mummyyummy wrote:

heard on the news there that eventually vista will be ttly replacing xp and we'll all eventually have to change? is this right?? hope not, otherwise ill have no comp as cant afford the £ to change over. I have no idea about technical things like this at all, can someone in the "know" enlighten me about this pls?? my xx

Only relavant to buying a new pc really. Nobody is forcing you to change. MS only recently stopped supporting windows 98 and look how old that is. Even then people who use 98 today don't HAVE to change, they only do if they find it more convenient to do so.

millwalll

well i got my upgrade free so i will install it have mess about with it see how i get on if i like it i will keep it if not just install xp but vista does look very good

mummyyummy_2

TO J DAVIES - mmm you are a lovely MSE'r aren't you?? How patronising was that answer you gave. Thanks to all the rest of the helpful posters, you have helped clarify things-which is what i thought mse was all about...

crox

Myosin wrote:

I looked for Ultimate as I may just buy a desktop replacement, because Ultimate looks amazing with the moving image desktop etc.

Dell don't seem to offer it though - all they give on the laptops and desktops is Home Basic which lets face it is not really worth having, imo.

The word is that there's only one installation disk and the key you have enables/disables versions, further to this you can pay m$ extra for the features you don't have enabled. Now if this is true, you could start with a cheap version and pay later, or wait for the white hats to figure out how to crack the system...

see http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=201
(might be US only)

everythingblogcast

All of windows OS have back doors, I would leave it until it bacomes stable a year or 2. And going to get the OEM of Ulmate.