[ShadowAce]

[TomGuy]

Nothing I've read about VISTA makes me want to run out and buy it.

The features include putting all media within a click or two. Big deal. Free add-ons to XP can do the same.

The features include trying to restrict media from running unless it passes VISTA approval.

Per some beta reports, VISTA would sometimes go bonkers and identify legal software and hardware as being illegal, and thus block it from operating.

And all this for the low price of $99 for the VISTA Home Basic and upwards of $350 for the Ultimate version.

[I'll stick with XP at least until the release of VISTA SP1.]

[TomGuy]

"The thing people forget is a new Windows release is a chance to sustain the revenue we have, every new Windows release is not necessarily a huge revenue opportunity," Ballmer said, adding that, "people are a little bit over optimistic, or more optimistic than we are about Windows revenue."

Translation: This is a release to just make some dollars. It really doesn't have many new bells and whistles, but hey, we need some money, so here's the new latest and greatest for you to run out and buy.

[Old_Mil]

This is corporate speak for "our latest release has flopped."

[mowowie]

Ugh...I just switched from Win98 to Xp just 12 months ago when I built my new computer. For all those years 98 worked just fine for me. It's gonna be quite some time before I load this nightmare known as Vista on my computer.

[HAL9000]

Vista had a relatively good first week for new PC sales, which jumped 176%.

But it's not selling too well as an upgrade. More upgrades for XP are getting sold than for Vista.

[LibFreeOrDie]

I attended a Microsoft Vista/Office 2007 Launch Event today, and was surprised at how they pushed Vista's eye candy on an IT/developer audience.

There are so many images and videos spinning, carouseling, and moving around the desktop that you'd need to take Dramamine to prevent motion sickness.

[dubie]

I was at the "ready for a new day" Microsoft Launch tour here in Valley Forge, PA yesterday. It was my first launch. They showed some really cool stuff that Vista does. I was more impressed however with the new features on Office 2007 and when used with exchange 2007 even more. Sure, I was very anti Vista before yesterday and now I am a little less anti Vista but my problem is our infrastructure can't handle Vista... we have computers in the plant that are 10 years old in a lot of cases. The front-end of the business has some newer computers but NONE that could come close to supporting the OS. It is just financially impossible for us to even consider Vista, Office 2007 OR Exchange 2007 as exchange 2007 REQUIRES a 64 bit OS. We have a lot of servers but none that are available for exchange 2007 which means we would have to buy a new server... The expense to upgrade is astronomical so we won't be seeing Vista anytime soon. I will say however, as we buy new PCs and laptops from HP they are now coming with Vista but just yesterday I had to turn it down because Sonicwall VPN client does not work with VISTA....