Vista codenamed longhorn was supposed to be out 2006, and was forced for an early 2007 release. The problem with it is that you will need alot of RAM and also a good graphics card, it also helps work with 64bit architecture, so it will eventually take over the market. XP is the most used OS around at the moment, and the large advertising for Vista is to help people realise it will be needed.

I know at PC Worlds, Dixons (now known as Currys.Digital) have stickers on their computers saying if they are able to take vista.

it costs u nothing to try vista and the prototype versions is very stable and reliable, guess what im using right now as i am talking to you yep


go to micrsoft, sign up to get a free code, and download the demo in a few hours

as for media centre, media centre is unstable as hell, and vista has media centre in built, vista media centre and vista in general allow the computer to work faster and better, you can even view all ur movies as thumbnails playing without any lag

rotate the media player screen 360 by 360 and spin thru all the windows, and switch from media centre mode and back in seconds

of course assuming ur pc cost u £600 and is a ok spec within the past 3 years

512mb ram, 128mb graphics card, 1ghz processor

i am due a free copy, and the business i am working for are already building micro "book" sized pc's capable of supporting it

and unlike dell, they dont chuck vat in the end

I've been trying RC1 out at work this week.
Its quite different to XP and takes a while to work out how to do all the old things.
The look is quite nice, but it doesn't really help with productivity.
Im kind of glad that there is a bit tighter security, but while i was using it I was still aware of how easy it is to give every thing that asks, permission to run.
Diddn't run all that fast on the quite high spec pc either. Intel core 2 duo with 2GB of ram

VISTA
Viruses
Intruders
Spyware
Trojans and
Adware

Just a thought

Unless you are planning to buy a new computer from March 2007 do not upgrade to Vista, it will not give you anything new or worth while compared to XP. If you have a operating system earlier than XP wait two months an buy a new computer.

If you are going to buy a new computer on my advice make sure it has at least 1GB of memory above all else.

If anyone doubts my advice I'm an IT techie of 18 years......!!!!!

Kind regards

Si