Anyone play with Vista ultimate yet?Follow

I was glancing though the MSDN subscription updates for my MSDN pack, and I noticed that they have the vista full keys in there now. No you can't have them. But I was wondering if anyone has played with the full version enough to tell if it is woth the upgraderight now, or is it still buggy enough to warrent waiting a few weeks?

I pretty much hate windows in general, Linux for the win

they have stable drivers out, that is not the problem. its the new way that Vista requires no more multi hardware drivers.

so the way that Nvidia and ATI have been making 1 driver for multiple cards no longer works under Vista.

Every card has to have its OWN seperate driver, well every chipset that is. so all of the Nvidia 6800s be they XT, GT, GS, what ever has to have 1 driver, all 7200, 8800, etc...

this is putting more expense on the hardware end of things as well as putting more demand on the user to know what they are doing.

I didn't notice any bugs.. I worked with it all day a few weeks ago along with Office 2007. it actually looks kinda good as much as I'd hate to say it. But that is my limited exposure to it though.

Dude, no one cares about your solitare score. Let it go.

But I was wondering if anyone has played with the full version enough to tell if it is woth the upgraderight now, or is it still buggy enough to warrent waiting a few weeks?

Well, at present, it's slower, less stable, uses more resources, and is less secure than XP SP2.

On the other hand it does come with a preposterous DRM system that adds huge amounts of overhead and pro-actively cripples hardware drivers from processing copyrighted content if they don't meet exact specifications.

Network Stack's better though. Close to 1/18th as efficient as Liunx, up from 1/29th with xp.

Vista itself is literally a downgrade for most people, but the problem, of course, is DX10. If Microsoft would port DX10 to XP, there would be absolutely zero reason for anyone to upgrade to Vista, ever.

Maybe it'll get better, anything's possible. I'd say people not being able to do things like view HD content on their HD monitors because their OS intentionally downgrades their output quality might get people to move away from MS operating systems, but I'm a realist. If you're thinking of upgrading and aren't dual booting Linux now, it's time to start.