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We received our new laptop earlier this week, so we finally got our first glance of Windows Vista Home Premium. I had researched it’s capabilities and system restraints as I had planned to upgrade our 2005 Media Center machine to Vista Home Premium. I figured that if it ran decent on a laptop, then our desktop wouldn’t have any problem at all after a 1 gig memory upgrade. So anyhow, I’ve had a chance to play around with it on our laptop this week and my first impressions are very positive. Microsoft has definately taken Windows to a whole new level. If you’re comfortable with XP Pro or even Win 2K, then moving around in Vista will be fairly easy for you. I had anticipated Vista to be purely eye candy, but I can assure you that it isn’t. Performance wise, I’m very impressed with Vista and the speed and ease of moving around within the OS. I’ve still not decided if I’m going to upgrade our Media Center machine to Vista, only because I have an issue with the $150.00 upgrade fee. If I were running Win 2K, I’d also find it hard to buy Vista outright at $250.00. What’s worse is the cost of Office 2007. Why in the world isn’t Outlook offered in the Office 2007 Home and Student edition? That just doesn’t make sense. So for now, I’m going with Open Office 2007. It will do everything that I’d need MS Office 2007 to do. I may also consider Thunderbird as a email client even though Microsoft Mail (no more Outlook Express) seems like it’ll do the job for now. All in all, Vista is a beautiful, great performing OS. Nothing Apple has offered compares in my opinion and Vista has also lessened the chance of Linux being a replacement OS even more. Not that I never consider a flavor of Linux or that I’d never own a Mac, for now, I’m sticking with what works best for us. So if you’re currently running XP and you’re looking for something new, then I’d recommend the upgrade to Vista, that is if you don’t mind forking out the $150.00 or other expenses upgrading your machine to handle Vista. But if you’re happy and content with XP, I’d say stick with what works for you. Microsoft has announced that they’ll support XP until 2013 I believe, so with that, it would appear that XP is going to have a longer shelf life than any previous OS from Microsoft.

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