Tech Tip 124: Windows Vista Part II - To Upgrade or Not to Upgrade

Posted by on 05/27 at 06:02 AM Permalink

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After five and half years of non-stop hacking and patching, Microsoft finally got its act together and released the more security conscious Windows Vista in January 2007. According to Redmond Magazine, Vista is off to a running start, logging in 20 million licenses in its first month of availability and outselling Windows XP in its first two months of existence by 3 million licenses. That should propel any Microsoft fan to run out and snatch up his or her own copy of the vaunted program – or should it? Those numbers include new systems that would have come with one OS or another anyway, and, after all, we are talking about Microsoft, king of the vulnerabilities and patch-as-you-go operating systems. Contrary to what Microsoft would have you believe, old habits die hard.

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Posted by tyvek on 05/27 at 02:40 PM

Always have to laugh at the stereo type stories?
Pictures of needless frustration. Vista works excillent with proper hardware. Run the advisor and do a little homework. I have over a terabyte to manage with a lot of applications and just had to bump off nero?
Articles like put out negative hype on a great new O/S.(yes, they will have to write somthing from scratch next time around)
My system comes up 50% faster and pretty much all functions are 30-50% faster. XP was the best they offered until now> All you have to say is you need 2 gig and no old hardware! I installed the rc1, rc2, beta 1. And based on those I would of NEVER upgraded, but they really cleaned it up on the final release.

Posted by ttblogger on 05/29 at 03:02 PM