Microsoft to PC Buyers: Don't Wait for Vista

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If you are contemplating a PC purchase but concerned about waiting for Windows Vista, don't wait, said Microsoft officials at the DigitalLife conference here.

G. Michael Sievert, corporate vice president of Windows Client marketing at Microsoft, opened the DigitalLife conference on Oct. 12 with a keynote in which he laid out the company's plans for the rollout of the Vista operating system and the surrounding ecosystem of hardware and software that will support it.

Supporting Sievert in a demo role, Justin Hutchinson, group product manager, Windows Client, said "one of the things that lights up Windows Vista is the ecosystem of products that support Windows."

Indeed, said Hutchinson, "close to 100 percent of the PCs on store shelves today are Windows Vista capable."

Later Hutchinson said that about 98 percent of the new PCs being sold hold the "Windows Vista Capable" logo and a smaller percentage of those are branded as "Premium Ready."

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(2 replies) #1 markjensen on 12 Oct 2006 - 19:43

Sure! Buy it now, before the "free Vista upgrade" coupons are issued! Then buy Vista later!

#1.1 Shadrack on 13 Oct 2006 - 00:06

Exactly. Why wait when you can buy now and buy again later.

#1.2 djesteban on 13 Oct 2006 - 00:35

lol... does MS thinks we are all dumb idiots?
Now we see that they want to make money out of upgrade box ;P

#2 bigl523 on 12 Oct 2006 - 19:46

isn't dx10 required for the full vista experience?

#3 prem vikash upadhyay on 12 Oct 2006 - 19:51

it required

(1 reply) #4 Ady831 on 12 Oct 2006 - 19:53

NO WAY. I'll wait till Vista shows up. In this way I will not have problems with the upgrade horror others have been through.

#4.1 Hitchhiker427 on 12 Oct 2006 - 22:40

If you just do a simple fresh install, then you'll avoid the "upgrade horror" that you speak of.

(1 reply) #5 Volatile on 12 Oct 2006 - 19:55

Buy XP now and then pay another 299. for Vista later!!!!

#5.1 superhuman on 12 Oct 2006 - 20:10

no $79

(2 replies) #6 Sn4k36 on 12 Oct 2006 - 20:00

I'll wait until alot better drive support is supported for windows vista and after the first windows vista SP1 comes out

#6.1 Soham on 12 Oct 2006 - 20:21

i am with you on that one.

#6.2 lbmouse on 12 Oct 2006 - 20:22

I agree about waiting on Vista, but if I desperately needed a new Win box for home, I'd buy one now With XP. No way in hell would I trust Vista until at least SP2 is released and that'll be a ways off.

#7 superhuman on 12 Oct 2006 - 20:09

stupid. People wait because they don't want to pay for WinXp then pay again for vista

#8 Chicane-UK on 12 Oct 2006 - 20:20

So thats trying to appease the hardware vendors who're peeved that Vista won't be available to the masses till AFTER christmas, and who are worrying they'll have a bad christmas season

#9 backdrifter on 12 Oct 2006 - 20:20

thanks microsoft! for a moment I thought paying for WinXP now was stupid but everything is crystal clear now...

#10 pallavsuri on 12 Oct 2006 - 20:28

if they budge on the security then whatever little difference was between xp and vista! that too will be gone!

how can they still be open to security after rc2 ?? like wtf? beta tsting was just taking ppl for a ride?

ms ????

#11 pyehac on 12 Oct 2006 - 20:42

Too bad I already told my customers to wait for Vista. Heck, I told some of them to wait a year to get the bugs worked out.

#12 dagamer34 on 12 Oct 2006 - 21:00

People who are going to wait for Vista are going to want to install XP anyway since Vista RTM won't have proven itself for quite a while.

#13 ibear on 12 Oct 2006 - 21:35

waiting for the 26th of this month when the expected free vista upgrade coupon's out.

(1 reply) #14 Leo Natan on 12 Oct 2006 - 22:24

To all the guys waiting for atleast SP1 or SP2, stfu! Once Crysis is out, you'll be installing Vista like it's the best thing you've ever seen. Just stfu!

#14.1 Ironman2003 on 12 Oct 2006 - 22:46

Quote - Leo Natan said @ #14

Not quite Leo -

I am waiting for Vista to go to the SP1 or SP2 stage as well, but I am not going to let a game or other application dictate when I should buy my next OS especially at the rates they insist on charging.

Isn't it a little soon to be making a snap judgement on when people will buy Vista?

(1 reply) #15 Croquant on 13 Oct 2006 - 01:23

I too am waiting until Vista is a compelling need. At the moment, XP does me just fine.

When Vista is something I actually need, then perhaps I'll consider it.

#15.1 notuptome2004 on 13 Oct 2006 - 06:15

Quote - Croquant said @ #15

so are you saying you still listen to Tapes or so and find no need to switch to CD cause ther is nothing compelling about Cds.

Just like windows XP we all or a good amount of us didnt care about XP when it came out because windows 98 did it all well XP may do some stuff Vista does but Vista may do the same thing better and or differant and better. i plan to switch right away for the fact is we dont know when or IF MS will roll out a SP1, What would happen if MS didnt roll an SP at all in the Vista time frame and by the Time the relased Fuji Vista SE or so and evan Vienna you are still on XP now what would you do IF no SPs were relased. as another neowin user siad in a topic SPs are not the end of Fixes cause ther will always be fixes to windows never 100% secure never 100% bug Free but if you look at Vista when RTM is out and finale it just will be a better First roll out then any previous Windows and will be what Microsoft always touted every single windows OS to be .

#16 eilegz on 13 Oct 2006 - 06:19

wait for oficial dx 10 cards, and new pc that its vista premium otherwise you just wont enjoy vista at all, i have a vista capable pc and i have problems with my soundcard so i have no sound, i dont think that buying a pc now would bring you the best vista experience.

Anyways patience its a good thing

(1 reply) #17 Andrew Murphy on 13 Oct 2006 - 08:05

Just like to say, I still use 2k at work and it runs all my programs fine...

I create maps, and websites for my local district authority and 2k is still fine for me. Why should I upgrade to Vista?

#17.1 notuptome2004 on 13 Oct 2006 - 09:49

Quote - Andrew Murphy said @ #17

Well you dont have to but i am sure you could find you can do alot more with vista for the same tasks but it is up to you to choose weather you want to. but you also could Oppt for windows 2k7 server when it is relased

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