Has anyone made a recent change from XP to Vista?

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My new HD is due to today and I'm doing a full re-install and backup.

I have a copy of Vista Business edition free from MSDN (Uni) and I was just wondering if it's worth making the transition as of yet? I was thinking of dual booting but that would be too much effort.

I'd appreciate hearing peoples thoughts on this. What's Vista like for compatibility for normal apps/games? Security?

Also if someone could briefly summarise what business edition lacks over ultimate?

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business is better than ultimate imo, ultimate has too much crap with it

the main difference (only decent thing you miss) is Media Centre


give it a go, go for the x64 version and have 4gb ram
 
bledd. said:
business is better than ultimate imo, ultimate has too much crap with it

the main difference (only decent thing you miss) is Media Centre


give it a go, go for the x64 version and have 4gb ram
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Why X64 over X32? Not many benefits are there?

I have 2GB and I don't plan on upgrading because this ram is so special ~strokes~, I should be okay with 2gb?
 
everyone will agree with what I wrote there tbh

vista loves extra ram, and 32bit can't see over 3.5gb

plus there's other speed boosts you get with x64, it's the way forward


personally i'm using xp64 and 8gb on my gaming pc, and vista64hp on my media centre (4gb)
 
I've not had many issues with running apps in a 64-bit OS, only one in Vista I have had is SandBoxie.

I'm currently setting up XP64 as I'm still not set on Vista for gaming, I'm too used too used to XP. In general though Vista x64 is a nice OS for everyday use and a lot of people swear by it for gaming too, I'm not loosing out on anything by using XP64 for gaming as I don't own any DX10 games and my graphics card does not even support DX10.
 
I made the change about two weeks ago. I really like it tbh. I've haven't experienced any compatibility issues, it runs very nice, no problems with getting games going and they all run very nice plus it just has a nice feel to it. I would question the upgrade if I had to pay full whack for it though. There are a few annoying niggles but they can be resolved if you do a bit of googling :)
 
something_totally_different said:
me me me! :D i went from XP, to Vista32, then back to XP. where im staying.
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I can't understand people who keeps moaning how bad Vista is. I been using Vista 64bit on my home pc for 6 months+ and never had any issues with it. To be honest there isn't many software out there now that doesn't support Vista properly now and if you have some old crap that refuse to work, change to some that work :)

Also wasn't it you that had HUGE problems with Excel? Which actually wasn't any problems at all with excel....;)
 
I switched from XP Pro to Vista 64 a month ago. I've had no problems at all with drivers and with 4 gigs of ram it performs flawlessly.
 
I have a slipstreamed XP disc and a load of software I usually load on.

I'll give Vista a chance, do I just do the usual windows update etc?

Will most of xp programming apps + others work in Vista?
 
Every time I stumble into one of these "switching-to-Vista" threads I'm again shocked at what seems to be the prevailing attitude: people who don't like Vista are idiots, luddites, and foolish newbies. It's a product, not a religion. It's not necessary to defend it when unbelievers blaspheme against it.
 
BillytheImpaler said:
Every time I stumble into one of these "switching-to-Vista" threads I'm again shocked at what seems to be the prevailing attitude: people who don't like Vista are idiots, luddites, and foolish newbies. It's a product, not a religion. It's not necessary to defend it when unbelievers blaspheme against it.
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If you're referring to me you misunderstand my post.

If you're upgrading your machine to Vista you must be aware of the fact that there maybe incompatibilities or other issues when upgrading the OS. Some of them can be very tricky to sort out. Some people don't have the knowledge or inclination to fix them and then start threads about how Vista is **** and the like. If you get a machine with it preloaded then it has been built with compatibility in mind and so you don't get these issues that put so many people off.

Burnsy
 
BillytheImpaler said:
Every time I stumble into one of these "switching-to-Vista" threads I'm again shocked at what seems to be the prevailing attitude: people who don't like Vista are idiots, luddites, and foolish newbies. It's a product, not a religion. It's not necessary to defend it when unbelievers blaspheme against it.
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I think it's more people who blame Vista fail to realise that Vista is more likely to bring out the failings in their hardware, hardware manufacturers failure to provide decent drivers or resisting change? :cool:
 
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