Out of interest, and apologies if its been asked before, but
ARE YOU GOING TO BUY VISTA [soon/now]?
I'm not!
Then again, I don't have to in many ways, i.e., we have a licence that would allow me to have this on as many machines as I want, but, the only machine I currently have it on is a virtual one - via VMWare.
I've actually had it [in various forms] for, um, rather a long time now - but, whilst it was not a 'released product', I haven't really bothered - apart from using it for a grid-computing experiment [where I needed it for some rather devious and 'can't say' purposes].
Anyway, now that it's due, and seeing that some of the good features
do actually work - well, I'm not convinced that I'll bother [even though it's free for me to load up a copy on my various machines].
It's 'free' for you, but you don't want it!!! Yes, and yes!
XP Pro works well for me - and my machines are all bolted down etc: and, having witnessed some rather dissapointing bugs in the business-release [which 'smack' of it [still!] being rushed - or - not properly tested], I don't think I'm going to jump on until I'm *forced* to [bought-a-new-machine / paid-for-it-pre-installed / might-as-well-use-it (with XP Pro as a dual-boot!)]
As an MS share-holder [and one-time employee], all of this makes me wonder about Microsoft's future ... how much does an OS [or an Office-Suite]
not do before you consider you should/must upgrade? And, if your answer is that Vista is necessary - what about the next version - or the next version of Microsoft Office?? When will *the product*
do enough - be reliable enough - that, thank you very much, but I'm quite happy with what I've got ta!
And, no, I don't think 128-bit stuff is going to convince me either, Duh!
So, what's the next cash cow for Microsoft? I mean - *search* is done and dusted, so ... what's next ... what's the next BiG Thing?