Well I'm certainly not going to defend Vista to anyone. I'm just offering my opinion with my experience with it. It is the OS of the future. If you are not comfortable with new technology and need the comfort level of proven mature technology stay with XP. I'm a technologist and my company is migrating all 60,000 desktops to Vista and I need to get comfortable with the OS.

My home needs are actually more more rigid than my business needs. I have in fact tweaked the crap out of Vista to the point where it is Fast, Reliable, and efficient. In many respects, it is more secure than XP, does networking and Internet much better, and does seem to be more robust in some areas than XP. Please keep in mind, I have already upgraded my computer to the Vista Service Pack 1 updates which address many performance and compatibility issues.

Is Vista perfect, No way. Microsoft has done some really stupid things with this OS. But long term, Vista is poised to be one heck of an Operating System.

As far as the search goes, take a look at the following article to explain the differences between search on XP and Vista. Bottom line is there is a new search engine in Vista which indexes your entire hard disk much like Google Desktop. As a matter of fact, Google challenged MS to remove this feature as it infringes on their product/patent/technology.
http://www.bentuser.com/article.aspx?ID=332&page=1

In closing I will say that I am not the type of person who is easily influenced by opinions. I am the type of person who likes to try things out for myself and learn first hand the pro's / Con's regarding new products.

When all is tallied up; both pro's/con's, I give Vista a firm Thumbs Up and I am actually quite confused by folks that are having difficulty with it. It's probably attributed to a rigid mindset that keeps thinking that Vista is XP and it is not. It's an entirely new OS with new paridigms. Just keep an open mind and learn to embrace new technology and you will have a better time evaluating/using Vista.


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Originally posted by hellboy44:
Music Card/Driver/Chipset compatability is a delicate thing without putting a brand new OS in the mix - I wouldn't touch Vista for at least another year.

Thing is - I wasn't aware you had a choice.

If you're buying a NEW machine, I understood they ALL came with Vista and XP is now not able to be "bought" anywhere.
(Although you guys say you can "downgrade" now, so...)


Al, that search function I already have on my XP machine.

It does the same thing as your Start menu search tool (if I understand you correctly)

I agree - it let's you find ANYTHING in seconds, and I use it CONSTANTLY.

But if it's already on XP, why upgrade to Vista????


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