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Enjoying Windows Vista Ultimate

July 6th, 2008

With much fear and trembling in light of all the naysaying out there, I recently installed Windows Vista Ultimate on my desktop.  I have had the discs for awhile but for lack of time and also a good reason to leave XP behind I didn’t have much motivation to install Vista.  Then the other day I set up a computer for my brother-in-law that had a 64-bit version of Vista on it.  I was so impressed with its looks and features that I decided to finally go for it.  So far I really like what I see.  I think it pays to let new OSes work the bugs out for a year or so.  The biggest improvement is the cool new interface but I am also learning about the nice new features under the hood.  So far I don’t see any reason at all to go back to XP.  There haven’t been any compatibility issues with my hardware or programs.  I still don’t see any reason to go out and buy Vista to install on a computer that has XP.  But if you have a chance to get it free then why not?

5 Responses to “Enjoying Windows Vista Ultimate”

  1. comment number 1 by: Kirby Witmer

    ;)

  2. comment number 2 by: Andrew

    Glad you like it. I personally rank Vista alongside other disasters like Hurricane Katrina, tsunamis, and Dodge transmissions.

  3. comment number 3 by: Mike

    All of which can be traced back to the ineptitude of the Bush administration!

  4. comment number 4 by: Josh Champagne

    I personally have used Vista 32bit and it is a disaster. I was talking to another tech who said the 64bit version was what Vista was supposed to work like. The only problem is most pc’s come with the 32bit one.

  5. comment number 5 by: Mike

    I have a 64-bit license also. I would love to build a 64-bit machine.

    I installed the 32-bit one and it’s working fine. But I have a dual-core processor and 2GB RAM.

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