Anyone else running it ?
Ive not bothered with the Beta's and the Release Candidate versions, and have patiently waited for the final version, and I installed Vista Home Premium on my Laptop last night, and I have to say I was rather impressed with it, after some initial teething problems connecting to my wireless network...which were more a problem of me being unfamilair with the Vista settings screens, and Vista giving me a warning about a security issue when I was making the SSID invisible....which at first I heeded, until I realised thats what was stopping me from connecting to my non broadcasted SSID network.
My Laptop isnt powerful enough to run the Aero mode, but It was coping fine with everything else.
The strangest thing, which was a first for me, was to Validate my copy online with Microsoft....doesn't seem right for me to be all legitimate !
Ive also got Office 2007, again legitimate and validated....whats going on with me.....This is not doing my rather shady "pay for nothing" reputation much good.
One annoying thing was whenever I tried to change settings, or install software, the screen goes dark and a security window comes up warning whats happening and making me click OK to continute what its doing....that got quite annoying, and ive yet to find where to turn that "feature" off.
Im also not running any anti virus software yet, as I don't know if my Sophos is Vista compatible yet.
Overall though, a thumb's up for me. I will be installing Vista Ultimate on my 2 desktops next week....then I guess I'll find out what programs I need to run day to day will no longer work....I could be changing my mind.
Ive not bothered with the Beta's and the Release Candidate versions, and have patiently waited for the final version, and I installed Vista Home Premium on my Laptop last night, and I have to say I was rather impressed with it, after some initial teething problems connecting to my wireless network...which were more a problem of me being unfamilair with the Vista settings screens, and Vista giving me a warning about a security issue when I was making the SSID invisible....which at first I heeded, until I realised thats what was stopping me from connecting to my non broadcasted SSID network.
My Laptop isnt powerful enough to run the Aero mode, but It was coping fine with everything else.
The strangest thing, which was a first for me, was to Validate my copy online with Microsoft....doesn't seem right for me to be all legitimate !
Ive also got Office 2007, again legitimate and validated....whats going on with me.....This is not doing my rather shady "pay for nothing" reputation much good.
One annoying thing was whenever I tried to change settings, or install software, the screen goes dark and a security window comes up warning whats happening and making me click OK to continute what its doing....that got quite annoying, and ive yet to find where to turn that "feature" off.
Im also not running any anti virus software yet, as I don't know if my Sophos is Vista compatible yet.
Overall though, a thumb's up for me. I will be installing Vista Ultimate on my 2 desktops next week....then I guess I'll find out what programs I need to run day to day will no longer work....I could be changing my mind.
Besides, just as with other OS releases there will be a raft of initial patches, fixes and scare stories doing the rounds. Microsoft (as they did with the Xbox 360) are trumpeting how secure Vista is. That's just the proverbial "Red Rag" to the hacking community to see if they can break it. The reportedly "secure and un-hackable" Xbox 360 didn't last long before it was broken and I doubt Vista will be safe for long either!
