Anyone Tried Vista Yet? ITS EVIL

The point I get from your anecdote is not that Vista is evil but that you had trouble with tech support.

As an eight year veteran of phone support who's job has been sent to the Philippines I know this first hand. I watch my company every day trying to take a complicated, specialist problem and give it to them for one third the price.

That said, the fact that your Tech Support gave you trouble over XP is probably they are not used to dealing with your kind of issue and are used to dealing with Vista or hardware type issues. Generally if you have any talent you get promoted off tech support pretty quick because only dumb people don't know when to quit. In tech support you prefer the routine calls.

If someone creates their own problem by not doing what is recommended you want to get out from under that for two reasons: a) they think they know what they are doing and don't so they don't listen to you anyway; b) any recommendations you give will never be good enough or bite you in the rear when they screw it up (see a); c) there's only so many things you can fix over the phone and if the customer has used the computer or done something in a way that is not recommended, its really their problem and you shouldn't have to deal with it. Take another call and let him hang himself.

So your problem is not Vista, its that you were using a Brand Name computer in a way it wasn't designed.
 
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For home use and games Im skipping vista and going straight to 64bit windows 7 in 2009-2010:

A minimalistic variation of the Windows kernel, known as MinWin, is being developed for use in Windows 7. The MinWin development efforts are aimed towards componentizing the Windows kernel and reducing the dependencies with a view to carving out the minimal set of components required to build a self-contained kernel as well as reducing the disk footprint and memory usage.[15] MinWin takes up about 25 MB on disk and has a working set (memory usage) of 40 MB.[16] It lacks a graphical user interface and is interfaced using a full-screen command line interface.[17][16] It includes the I/O and networking subsystems

In work though I have used Vista on acer mobile for som months now and it works just perfectly. Its definetly better than XP.
 
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I just built a new PC this weekend as my old one fizzed out Thursday night (strangely enough I had received an advert from Microcenter in email Wednesday night with a sale on the new E8400 CPU. I thought about it, then decided I didn't need to spend the money to upgrade my 3+ year old machine. Guess the advert read my mind and took action!).

Since I qualify to buy the OEM version of any MSFT OS, I was first thinking of buying Windows Media Center 2005 as I'm using my PC as an HTPC as well. I have XP pro, but my video capture card is for MCE and so doesn't have all the software for capturing, and using 3rd party has been less than satisfactory for me.

Then I figured, why not just buy Vista Premium? The OEM is $114 from Newegg. You have a limited window of time to get the OEM version when you build a new machine. I've heard some of the horror stories about Vista, but I figure, one way or another, for newer games, we'll all be running it in a few years anyway.

I hope I don't have the problems that the OP did! Either way, I've got the room, so maybe a dual boot XP/Vista machine is in order!
 
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