Is upgrading to vist worth it?

[protecteur]

Hi! Everyone I was wondering if upgrading from Windows Media Center to Windows Vista Ultimate really worth it. I heard from a lot of friends that its the worst microsoft OS ever released and keeps crashing and that its also a big resources hog!! Is all of this true. What is the big hipe with vista? Is it more secure and more stable then xp?

Thanks

Protecteur

[KingCobra]

I'm going to stay with WinXP myself, because it's just so trouble free now.

[Alpine]

Yep, same here.
I stay with XP! I hate getting surprise with new OS!!

I forget to mention:
i don't have money to do a upgrade !

[rikytik]

I've been fooling with Vista on dual boot for awhile and have to say I see little advantage. My current gripe is HP still hasn't written the drivers so their All In One Photosmart printers can work on the LAN, via their ethernet connectors. There is stil, far as I know, only Trend Micro that makes a decent firewall for Vista (MS OneCare may not be as slick as it appears to be). I also had confusion using Aconis True Image which only a week ago issued a Vista compatible edition. By the way, if you've got XP on c:\ and Vista on d:\ these drive letters reverse when Vista boots and this causes some confusion with Acronis if you try to restore Vista. Solution seems to be to make a small boot c:\ and then install WinXP on d:\ and Vista on e:\. But, that requires reinstalling WinXP, and that doesn't make much sense if you're up and running.

Otherwise, far as I can see Vista isn't "magic". It essentially does what WinXP does: Run the programs you like and need.

Maybe when Vista SP2 comes out would be about time.

[wase4711]

its not magic, but its definately nicer on your eyes, has neat multimedia features, and networking is alot smoother..
its not a "critical" upgrade, but it is fun to play with.
you definately need 2 gigs of ram to run Vista trouble free, especially if you do alot of graphic/multimedia stuff.