I'm going to wait a year, before I think about getting Windows Vista. Gives Microsoft time to work most of the bugs out.

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I have a Dell e1705 laptop, bought it last November. Of course Dell had the free upgrade to Vista when it would become available, so I jumped on that. I always like new gadgets and Vista looked to have some nice sleek looks. Dell didn't get the upgrade to most of its people until the beginning of March and when mine showed up in the mail I fucking installed it. It went pretty fast and I was thrilled, at first. Then the little things started to get to me, like all the fucking "permission granted" requests and not letting delete large folders. Certain programs didn't work, specifically Outlook would not function no matter how many uninstalls and reinstalls I did. My university's network didn't support Vista, so my shiny slightly new computer that I used to take to class and browse the web with was null, to make it better every time I tried to connect to the network I got the blue screen of death and my computer would fucking reboot every god damn time. Finally I got fed up with it and I fucking reformatted my hard drive and reloaded XP Pro. Now by no means is my laptop obsolete, 2 gig of ram, 2.16ghz core duo processor, fucking Nvidia Geforce Go 7800, my shit kicked. Oh, another thing to note when Vista was working, my graphics card only displayed has its dedicated ram so what used to be a 256 mb card showed up as 128, I was pissed. So this past weekend I reverted, and not regretting a fucking thing. I will state that right now Vista just isn't stable and supported by enough of what I need my computer for. But I will upgrade again, when all the fucking bugs get kinked out. I want to use Vista but I just lost too much of my computer and the fact that XP will still be suported until something like 2015 or some shit (don't quote me on that, but I remember reading an article about Micros continued support for their old OS). Of course, my issue might be different from others, but until I feel more confident about upgrading again, I'm steering clear of Aero.

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