[poll] worth switching to beta vista from xp?

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is it worth it now switching to vista now from xp?  

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  1. 1. is it worth it now switching to vista now from xp?

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    • No
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mldkfa

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Would you switch to a half built car if you already had a fully functioning one, it just wasn't the newest model?

Note the rhetoric. :rolleyes:

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Ummm I would take a concept car that ran and did everything I wanted it to do over my 5 year old car.....

  • 2 months later...
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J Z

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Vista will be a great operating system to switch to....yeah i said will be, i think ill agree with everyone else when i say its still in beta and you'd be crazy to use it as a primary os. Got a second machine or want to set up another partition go for it...but keep it at that.

Things ive seen in vista that i like:

better securty as far as the firewall (you can limit what comes in and goes out) as well as spyware protection.

has a windows transfer which will be great when upgrading to a new pc (say when you buy the final release of vista and want to up grade from xp)

2 things ive noticed but havn't really figured out are the "solutions to problems" im thinking this could be something that helps you solve current problems with your machine, not sure how good this will work, possibly not at all but i like the concept. Another is "people near me" not sure if this is some kind of network chat tool or what but that would be pretty cool if it was something like that for businesses and everyone in your network.

anyway test and try the beta its cool, don't get rid of xp yet though

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kryptonate

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if you're thinking about using it as your full OS then you obviously don't know a lot about BETA-software. There's a reason why it's called Beta and not Final. It's not ready yet. Sure, a lot of things will work as they should be but don't expect it to run as smoothly as XP nowadays.

There still have a lot of bugs to be found and to be corrected and new features have still to be implement and then they'll go back to bugfinding and correcting.

The comparision with the half build car is correct. He'll probable be able to drive but would you really prefer a car that still has got a lot of problems over a car that's a bit older but drives as he should?

Another reason to wait is that if you have a problem with Vista Beta and you're not an official tester you won't receive any help from Microsoft and don't expect a lot of other people to know enough of Vista to help you out.

A lot of hardware that's on the market today will not work on Vista Beta.

I really think it's a bad idea to be using it as your day-to-day OS allready.

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Winky

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Switch from DOS 3.3 to 5.0 oh not me I'll wait

Give up my win 3.11 for 95 no way Jose'

Upgrade to 98FE why would you do that?

Install XP? Heck my 98SE is running fine...

(there are entirely too many copies of 98 still running out there, even now)

Yeah if you want to be the first kid on your block to learn what

might be the very last great OS from the most historicaly

important software company in the history of the human race

then

Git yerself on the Vista roadshow!

Now how do I get me one, heh heh

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ShaneSparky_YYZ

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To use a beta OS for main use is not good at all, sure it may work great for you but there's many bugs inside, and every month or two there's a newer version out, and for the best quality when using a new updated build its best to have a clean install. So if you don't mind reinstalling everything every 2 months or so then go ahead and use it as your primary, but I wouldn't.

The latest release build 5270 is better than the past builds I find, thankfully on tuesday a new build comes out, according to many websites, and this one (the article was posted a few weeks ago).

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