Has anyone bought a new computer with the offer of a 'free' Vista' upgrade offer? If so, I assume you registered at the ModusLink website and sent in your 'Proof of Purchase'. Have you heard ANYTHING since then? As VISTA is being released as of midnight tonight (Jan 30, 2007) I was wondering as I haven't heard ANYTHING from ModusLink except that in my status link page it says that my status is COA is validated, No order number, No ship date. Oh yeah, the correct prices are there too. $9.95 for shipping.

Anyone got anything different?

 

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Thanks furball...just wanted to confirm what I had.

 

Bump.

anyone heard anything good or bad about vista? anyone running it yet?

trying to find out if its worth the upgrade

 

It is incompatable with some older software..

I think it is over priced..

According to PC world speed tests the computer is actually slower using Vista.

Watch out for sales tactics.. They may tell you all the good things it can do, but if your computer does not have the necessary memory, hardware or your version does not have the capability. Then it will not work.
For example to run the new Aero interface (3D Desktop) then you need the Ultimate version ($399.00) and a good direct X 9.0 graphics card.

They are saying it is more secure than XP, but just give the hackers time to find the flaws..

They have changed things around so there will be a learning curve to find what you want.

Just my 2 cents.....

 

like anything MS produces, It'll take time for bugs to get worked out

 

I have it now, not cause I am one of those guys that needs to go buy the latest greatest (heck I would rather someone else was the crash test dummy, me I am just a dummy) but because I needed to upgrade one of my computers so my wife could get online too without kicking me off all the time, and all the ones I was interested in buying had it already installed (I usually go one down from the current top model when I buy a new computer)
So far it seems to be working fine, but have run into some compatibility problems with some of the stuff I like to run, like windows video player won't work with it, even the one that is installed from teh factory. the IM programs all seem to have some sort of problem with it, but I have gotten all the ones I use to work so far, but MSN messenger keeps telling me I need to get a different version of adobe reader or something along those lines but when you try to download it, you get a failure. (the IM still works just get that message everytime you open it up) and one other program gave me a error message saying it wasn't totally compatible with Vista, but would work with certain settings, and they will advise as soon as the Vista compatible version was available.
Over all, I guess it's ok, I personally wouldn't pay to upgrade to it by any means especially this early in the game, but it's on here and I won't down grade either. If it came on your computer, or you get it for free, then use it, but don't go buy it, not worth that IMHO

 

I work as a computer Engineer in major company and looks like Vista based on our software testing and developers...has couple of glitches.....Its unstable...and incompatible like others say out there......the best OS right now is 2000 and XP PRO.....hope they perfect the crashing of vista with multi processing....

 

I'm running XP MCE SP2 right now and it has been flawless, guess I'll stick with this until I have to reinstall for some reason or another.. or if I happen to accidentally download it and install it

 

ive heard the recomended hardware is ridiculus, like 1tb of hard drive space? that isnt even relatively affordable yet... i think i'll stick to 2k pro for a while

 

1tb of hard drive? man someone was feeding you a line trying to down play it, I have a 320GB drive, but then again I also heard you needed to have 1gb on the board just for Vista too, and so far mine is running everything I want to at the same time with a 1024mb. Oh and my hard drive is not even remotely close to filled up. more like 5% so really don't know why you would need that big of a drive.

 

i heard it was reccomended, not required, but it did seem kinda outrageous... i understand that vista is just a bunch of extra useless bells and whistles... ah well. i reckon i'll worry about that when i upgrade to 64 bit processing next year, my athlon xp 2600+ 640mb ddr and 200gb hdd is more than enough for now

 

We ordered four pc's for the office, all with Vista, and one of them came today... it looks OK. I didn't play with it, just watch the other guy trying to get the rest of the computers seeing and comunicating with that one. I'll have plenty of time to try it out as one of the ones coming will be at my workstation.

Anyway, I ordered my free upgrade today so, I guess I'll see what the consensus is while I wait for mine to arrive.

 

Watch your hardware compatibility, you need to go to the manufacturer of your printers, scanners, monitors, etc. to see if they have a Vista compatible driver available for your hardware.

This is Windows Vista hardware compatibility link.
http://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/
http://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/Default.aspx