Anyone?
Anyone excited or running out to get the new windows vista operating system?
Will ‘n’ work with it?
I have no clue. Which isn’t a great big surprise I’m sure.
I’m certainly not in any rush. My XP rig is working fine and stable, happily runs all my music stuff and all my software stuff too.
As soon as a majority of my customer base (gov) moves to vista, I will have to also. That threshold is probably a year off at least.
We have played with pre-releases here in my company but I’ve not seen anything world-changing enough to warrant a quick change. Just lots of bells and whistles, and the usual mystifying ms bloat.
As usual, I would also advise anybody to hold off at least until the first major patch release. That’s just SOP for anything from ms. I’m not an anti-ms dude in any way, but this is just facing facts - basic self-preservation.
My recent laptop purchase entitles me to a Vista upgrade - supposedly it will be mailed to me. I’m sort of curious to try it out.
Eyup!
I have just replaced my pc and the new one came with a free Vista voucher.
I’m entitled to the Home Premium edition.
I’ll let you know how it works out but I’ll have to wait several weeks before the upgrade disk arives.
In the meantime I have to go through the pain and heartache of transferring all my software to the new box 
I hope it will be as stable as the previous one, that was a Pentium 3, this one is an Athlon dual core jobbie.
You never know, I might be able to run SIR now 
Steve
I’m not gonna upgrade until forced to do so. As far as I know, there are no Vista certified drivers for my sound card/MIDI interface. XP is working like a champ so why bother?
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Yeah. Thought I was seeing double or had lost my marbles.
is it as good as OSX yet? No? Then no.
Not gonna upgrade until something forces me to do so…
Like with Quicken - every two years they “drop support for” versions that are older than two years - which actually means that they intentionally break key features (the ability to download transactions from your bank) in order to force you to buy the latest version.
Could you imagine buying a hammer from Sears, and then two years later a guys breaks into your shed and cuts the hammer in half and says "Sorry, but we no longer support this model, but we’d be happy to sell you a new one!"
Same thing.
…and that’s about what it would take for me to upgrade from XP.
I’m not going to upgrade but I’ll put Vista on my next machine which will be dual core, 2 GBs of RAM, and will have an adequate graphics card to handle Vista. There’s no way I would even consider upgrading one of my existing machines because they all work right now. Expect Vista to run slower than XP, so you’d better be prepared hardware-wise for that.
I just checked my audio card ventor, EchoAudio, and they don’t seem to have drivers for Vista yet.
I’m in no hurry to upgrade.
It is a lost hope of mine that someday Microsoft will release an OS that is not bloated and runs faster than the previous OS. I really miss the days of Amiga OS when the whole OS fit on a floppy and ran really fast on a 7mhz CPU. Now the OS takes more than a Gig of hard drive space and is full of all sorts of unusable bloat.
Give me a lean OS that will allow me to run my audio/video apps solidly. THat’s all I ask for. 
Mike
Yeah, some official barebones releases for dedicated tasks like audio and/or video etc would be cool.
I haven’t looked at Vista since the early betas. At that point I didn’t find a whole lot of compelling things save for some dressed up menus and more tightly integrated multimedia. The big compelling thing though is that it’s 64-bit (if you have a 64 bit processor). Assuming N would take advantage of that, and effects would take advantage of that one could probably run a lot more tracks and effects before grinding the same processor to a halt in XP.
I won’t change anything as long as what I have works.
No new N’s, no new OS’s, no new nuthin’ !
'K, maybe a new guitar or amp… 
| Quote (teryeah @ Feb. 06 2007,17:56) |
| I won't change anything as long as what I have works. No new N's, no new OS's, no new nuthin' ! 'K, maybe a new guitar or amp...
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There are NEVER too many guitars and amps, and I've never seen one that I didn't want.
T
Hearing alot of Bugs,Bugs and MORE Bugs in Vista. Imagine that!
New guitar or amp, hmm, just got anew amp, still trying to figure out the set up. Ok, so I’m slower than any microsoft OS. 
| Quote (YazMiester @ Feb. 06 2007,18:20) |
| Ok, so I'm slower than any microsoft OS.
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Well, you prolly make up for that with decent drivers
Well being a software development company we have been looking closely at Vista for a while.
We have a couple of copies here and our experience is that it is very heavy on hardware. None of the machines we have here are sufficient to run it properly (including the new Dells that we bought just before christmas, albeit entry level machines). It runs really slowly.
Primarily the graphics card requirements are high (for business machine standards) and that is what is causing our problems.
Anyway, this short video sums it up nicely:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxQm3IsSKAo&eurl
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That’s not the killer app you hope for though, not when you can already get nTrack-x64 running under WinXp-x64 on a 64bit CPU (providing your drivers support that OS)… I’d like to see some benchmarks from that myself actually.