Vista - Yay or Nay?

impossiblevoices · Post by **impossiblevoices** » 15 Feb 2007, 16:44

Are any of you lot using Windows Vista yet?

I bought a Sony laptop in October last year running Windows XP Media Centre Edition. I have just found out that I can upgrade to Windows Vista Home Premium Edition for the knockdown bargain basement one time only price of Â£17.63!

Seems like a bargain! Is anyone else using Vista though? What do you think? Is it really that much better than XP?

Also, for the geeks out there... Do you have to do a clean install or is there an upgrade install that lets you keep all your installed apps and data? Critically, does your cracked XP software still run ok? (!Cheeky, I know...!)

ali · Post by **ali** » 15 Feb 2007, 19:45

You can download this to help you see what apps will run under Vista.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/produc ... visor.mspx

According to this month's Computer Music mag a lot of audio apps won't work yet. The software companies have to produce new drivers for Vista and a lot of them haven't got round to it yet.

Ableton Live doesn't work but Sonar does.

Cracked software? Don't know what you mean................

impossiblevoices · Post by **impossiblevoices** » 15 Feb 2007, 22:25

Cheers for the link Ali!

Everything seems to be ok on the laptop front. Only Alcohol120% and Nero 6 won't work...

Might be a different kettle of fish with the music pc tho...

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 15 Feb 2007, 22:52

Haven't seen much about it yet, but why should I pay all that money for it when xp serves me well enough. I always feel that 'If it aint broke don't fix it'

Post by **wangi** » 15 Feb 2007, 22:53

IV, got a link to the details of that offer? As an owner (or rather, a sucker) of the 64-bit version of XP Pro I'm supposedly: "If you are currently using Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP Professional x64, you are eligible for an upgrade copy to a corresponding or better edition of Windows Vista, but a clean install is required."

I wouldn't normally bother, and I'd never recommend it to anyone else (the driver support isn't there) but I'm currently looking at a system re-install due to a RAID disk failure and me then buying a replacement disk which is a mere 2mb too small (so I can't simply whack it in and rebuild the RAID array).

Argh.

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 15 Feb 2007, 23:06

wangi wrote:[/i]

I wouldn't normally bother, and I'd never recommend it to anyone else (the driver support isn't there) but I'm currently looking at a system re-install due to a RAID disk failure and me then buying a replacement disk which is a mere 2mb too small (so I can't simply whack it in and rebuild the RAID array).

Argh.

Post by **wangi** » 15 Feb 2007, 23:08

It's all in the last line. Argh.

impossiblevoices · Post by **impossiblevoices** » 16 Feb 2007, 00:27

Go [here] Wangi, then click on NEW:Express upgrade to Windows Vista...

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 16 Feb 2007, 10:05

wangi wrote:It's all in the last line. Argh.

It certainly made me go aaaaaargh

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