Long LIVE VIsta!

Well if you took advantage of the $50 upgrade for W7 than it is worth it to change.

I'm also upgrading, while I didn't have any problems with Vista I like 7 more, but apart from that W7 does something that Vista can't in Australia, that is use the EPG in Media Center.
Due to licensing arrangements with copyright holders. I would have to pay an annual subscription fee to a third party to use the EPG in Vista, so it's cheaper for me to upgrade then pay annual fees. As far as I know the USA and Europe doesn't have this problem.

Only $50 to upgrade? So can you use your old PAID Vista system afterwards?

Then its not worth it... Id rather have BOTH Vista AND Windows 7, so Ill wait for the motherboards that have USB3.0, Built in HDMI, and Win SP1 or 2.

Hated XP
Liked Vista
Still prefer 7, especially with the early ordering offer! great bit of marketing

It's spectacular. I just booted my notebook, and the internet was connected and ready before I had my cursor over the icon to select the network I wanted (it chose the right one anyway)

Meh - until I have a reason to move off XP I wont

I love Vista and if it hadn't been for 58% off Home and 50% off Pro, I probably would have stuck with Vista. I simply could not resist the preorder discounts for Windows 7.

I hated xp at first too, didnt think it was as good as 98se, but i learned to love it, you are the first person i know to actually hate xp. i agree with you on vista though, after the first sp, didnt see why people still hated it, love windows 7,it's like apple macintosh good.

I have a legit RTM copy of 7 Pro x64, which i'm going to install on a new HDD, i've used the beta and RC, and if not for all the problems i've had in the past few weeks with swapping drives into my new system, I wouldn't be switching. I'm just going to fresh install on the new drive and transition over. 7 is improved in some areas, but I hate the look, and would rather have an exact copy of 98's theme, like XP. You can get close on 7, but it's not the same.

Those of us in IT had a "mantra" going way back to the 1980's as far as MS OS's were concerned and it still holds .... "It's still a beta until SP3".

While I don't think MS will ever reach the bastion of reliability that NT4SP6a was (have machine behind me running NT4 24/7 for over 10 years, XP actually became pretty reliable after SP2. Until then, I was spending 80% of my time with XP boxes, although they accounted for only 15% of our installed base.

Many people are thinking Windows 7 as SP3 for Vista. For the 1st time in many, many years, business are considering roll outs within the 1st year of release.

http://bx.businessweek.com/microso [...] y-2010.ars

I liked 98SE, XP 32bit became useful, XP64bit was ok, but because nobody made drivers for it, it wasn't useful to me. I am always tormented by others because I never had any issues with Vista on my system, therefore I like it.

Because I am getting win7 for cheap, I will move to it. Time for a change.

If you don't like change, you could always get win7, but use the XP mode. It looks and feels similar to XP. You would not even know the difference.

I love Vista. Its the most stable and virus free operating system I've used EVER. I've used every version since Win95.

I tried Win7 and wasn't crazy about it. No plans for Win7 in my future.

Yes you would. It only supports a single processor core and zero graphics acceleration.

VISTA SUCKS PERIOD!!! I work on computers everyday repairing them. Vista is the worst OS that windows has ever had. Windows 7 is so far better than any of the Windows OS's. Vista is like Windows ME a big CRASH AND BURN OS. A few things i learned in dealing with Vista. If you don't reload it from scratch on an unpartitioned drive, there are many errors you have to work around. Then when the reload is done it takes over 10 hours to install all the updates. If you try to ghost a drive with Vista you have to do a startup repair when the ghosting is done to get vista to work! Windows XP and Windows 7 do not have these problems so far as i can tell. Then the normal usage of Vista being the biggest resource hog and also the fact that any Internet Security Suite like norton 360(also a joke) or Norton Internet Security or McAfee Internet Suite do not like Windows Vista and makes the whole system unstable. This has been a personal experience working on customers computers. If a computer with vista is not working properly and it has an Internet Security Suite on it i remove that software and the problem is usually solved!! GL with Win Vista Ill stick with 7.

After turning down the UAC on Win 7, I changed the login sounds to the same ones Vista uses. The Win 7 login/logoff sounds had to be changed.

The graphics acceleration I take it is for the revised version of Aero but not accelerating the actual GPU graphics right? I don't have Win7 yeat and I dont plan to upgrade to that until I make my next build. Its a waste if I just get rid of Vista and ditch it entirely. I can still use this machine and like many ppl have a 2nd PC with a different OS.

Back to the graphics, Is it as fluid as the Iphones interphase? have you used the touch-screen apps? Or is it just a faster and more wholesome version of Aero?

Because for me, Vista is still good enough to keep and not entirely get rid of... graphics accelerators and more RAM as well as a 'little faster' doesnt say much...

My turtle likes windows 7

Same here.

Trouble with waiting is that you've missed out on the special deals at launch. It was a no-brainer for me to snap up a copy cheap, and it's a vast improvement on XP or Vista. Even if I was going to wait until SP1 before installing I'd have gone for the bargain and then just kept the DVD until I was ready to install.

What kind of promos? Im sure by the time SP1 comes out, at least until next summer, the prices for Win7 would have gone down by a small bit, maybe even $20-50? By then I will have a whole new system so I dont need to get "rid" or replace my Vista system but simply have another backup PC with a decent OS and specs...