When are you going to upgrade to vista?

[teachmech]

It has to be asked.

Myself I'm going to try and wait until there are drivers for all my kit first.

Then treat myself to a DX10 graphics card and vista.

How long for you?

[j.o.s.h.1408]

I will probably upgrade to vista when i build a new pc towards the end of this year.

However i may test out vista on my laptop and see what its like

[cyberguy]

I will upgrade when XP is no longer supported and I have Windows-based apps that will not run under Linux DirectX emulators. Other than that I have absolutely no overpowering reason or motivation to upgrade to a bloated, overpriced, DRM-riddled P.O.S.

Note that if a Game is released that requires DirectX10 exclusively, I Will Not Buy It.

[IBM]

Three cheers for principled Canadians!!



I'll upgrade when I build a new rig sometime later this year. It will be lovely, and look lovely, and smell lovely, and feel lovely, and I shall want to marry it and raise a family together.

And then the honeymoon will be over and I'll want to remove Vista and reinstall XP but find that I can't because Microsoft owns my soul.

[Nick Smith]

im going to do it when i get enough money for vista and a raptor

[ExceededGoku]

I've already upgraded and am running it as we speak . It's soo good

[vicar]

End of the year or 2008. When all the bugs have been ironed out.

[directhex]

i'll install it on the laptop when i get a chance. we'll need to support vista users soon enough, best to be prepared

[SteveC]

I will upgrade when XP is no longer supported and I have Windows-based apps that will not run under Linux DirectX emulators. Other than that I have absolutely no overpowering reason or motivation to upgrade to a bloated, overpriced, DRM-riddled P.O.S.

Note that if a Game is released that requires DirectX10 exclusively, I Will Not Buy It.

I like your style - I'm thinking just the same thing.

After years of occasional tinkering with Linux, I'm thinking all this increasingly draconian activation and licensing nonsense (not to mention bloat) will drive me away from any new versions of Windows for good.

Once my XP installation becomes truly out of date, Linux should be just about ready for all my desktop needs.

[chuckskull]

Buying a Core 2 Duo and some RAM in the next few weeks, if theres £70 going spare in my bank account I'll grab Home premium OEM them. If not, then whenever I next buy a "none peripheral component".

[afraser2k]

SP1 is due out sometime in the second-half of this year according to The Inquirer so if it turns out to be true then probably then (unless my work decides to buy me a copy first of course ).

[ajbrun]

2 and a half weeks .

[HyeongSeong]

I'll wait when there is a directX 10 only game come out that is worth playing

[kalniel]

Don't know don't know don't know!

I *want* to buy it soon, but then again I think it is a royal rip off and part of me wants to see the reasoning behind that. I want to make sure there are compatible drivers for everything I want to use (64bit version), including obscure NVidia-gazumped ULI sata raid drivers, and I've got a load of unanswered questions about the OS just yet that I'll need firm answers to.

SP1 looks like a good starting point.

[5lab]

i strongly suspect sp1 will be at least a year away - it'll slip..

i'll upgrade when my beta licence runs out.. maybe april? the oem prices are actually pretty damn good

[zulander]

Depends if i can get it thru work, if i can probably around SP1 release. TBH i have no real need of it other than that sooner or later where ever im working will probably have it installed so i may as well get to grips with it at least on a basic level