i have a copy on order, came free with my laptop.. wont intstall it untill its been out a month or so and a few bugs have been worked out, and everyones got there drivers sorted etc

i think i'll most probably stick with XP for another year or so. Vista is like so expensive here. i think it's about 90USD for the cheapest most basic version. not to mention i'm kinda worried about it's stability and bugs. XP had quite a number when it first came out i believe.

edit: might use my father's laptop as a guinea pig tho. lol!

I'm sure I will one day but I'm in no hurry.

Not in the near future. I gotta upgrae my PC first which requires money and that will take time.

FULL versions (all prices Canadian)
Windows Vista Ultimate $499
Windows XP Professional w/SP2 $429
Windows Vista Business $379
Windows Vista Home Premium $299
Windows Vista Home Basic $259
Windows XP Home w/SP2 $259


UPGRADE versions (all prices Canadian)
Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade $299
Windows XP Professional w/SP2 Upgrade $259
Windows Vista Business Upgrade $249
Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade $199
Windows Vista Home Basic Upgrade $129
Windows XP Home w/SP2 Upgrade $129

Interesting poll so far, I would have thought more people would be looking to get it actually than there is.

This should probably go into the Vista forum but since this is the current topic area:

Vista "suicide note" researcher interview on Security Now

The excellent Security Now podcast just aired an interview with Peter Guttman, the security researcher who wrote the celebrated "A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection" (this is the paper whose "executive executive summary" read simply, "The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history").

Guttman has really dug into the crazy extremes that Vista -- the next version of Windows -- goes to in order to restrict how you use high-definition video. The operating system has been essentially rendered useless by a set of deliberately introduced malfunctions. For example, the if your computer detects erroneous data in its registers, or voltage fluctuations (both of which are typical of PCs whose parts have been manufactured by dozens of companies), it will restart major subsystems, hanging up while it flushes all your data -- just in case those errors were part of a hack-attack on the system.

Vista is a disaster. Microsoft is so desperate to get the entertainment industry locked into its platform that they'll destroy themselves to get there. This is an operating system that, when idle, will have to check itself every 30 microseconds to make sure nothing is still happening, and no hackers are attacking it. It acts like an unmedicated paranoid. If Vista catches on, hundreds of millions of computers will be burning heptillions of cycles and tons of coal just making sure that no one is putting a voltmeter on the traces on its motherboard.

And those are its good points.

http://www.twit.tv/sn74

Bloody hell!

that is really worrying. i WAS looking forward to vista, but stability is quite a huge issue with me so decided against buying it when it comes out. heh.

Vista is Ok all the icons are huge compared to xp on 1024X768 res that looks ugly and the start bars is realy big there are a few anoyin bugs in the rtm , this time microsoft went to far