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Hi,

I am planning to buy a new Laptop. My old laptop has Windows XP. The new laptop will have window vista business. I have no Idea about Window Vista Business. Has anyone used it? How is it different from Windows XP? Any comments are welcome.
 


If you don't like it, apparently you can downgrade your license to XP Pro from Vista Business, so I'd say there's no risk.
 
You will probably find it uncomfortable at first, most people I know of hated Vista once they tried it out. But then they I informed them of a few settings to tweak and they have been happy ever after.
 
I've been using Vista about 3 months now and I'm liking it very much. No real issues or complaints, though I'm not a power user by any means.
 
Been using it since it came out. Once you stop listening to the media hype over different colored buttons you'll realize its basically the same as far as compatibility.
 
[disclaimer: used to intern for microsoft as a dev, i'm biased against ms. get a mac, or install linux.]

Ignoring the fact that Vista, on the same machine as XP, will perform slower, overall I like it better from an end-user standpoint (I'm not an end-user, though, I'm a power user, so my desktop is linux).
Vista's memory management, network stack and -- in a laptop -- power saving modes, will make it worth the upgrade. In terms of feature availability, you'll lose the "Run" box in the start menu, and gain the ability to WinKey+1-4 to launch quicklaunch tasks, but otherwise won't notice much of a difference.

Vista Business is the right edition for you, unless you're planning on playing lots of intensive games on battery power. Ultimate edition has a few more media doohickeys and some optimizations for stopping services while you're running intense 3D apps, but is otherwise overkill.
 
uplinked said:
In terms of feature availability, you'll lose the "Run" box in the start menu,
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Incorrect, instead of using "Run..." you can now just type your command in the "Search programs and files" box on the start menu. And there is always Win+R
 
audax said:
Incorrect, instead of using "Run..." you can now just type your command in the "Search programs and files" box on the start menu. And there is always Win+R
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Correct, you lose the "Run" button in the Start menu, you get the "Find" box, and Win+R still works. But losing the "Run" button itself was the only thing I missed moving XP->Vista.
 
uplinked said:
Correct, you lose the "Run" button in the Start menu, you get the "Find" box, and Win+R still works. But losing the "Run" button itself was the only thing I missed moving XP->Vista.
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Horseshit.

R.click startbar, properties, start menu tab, customize, check RUN command.

Fucking noob.
 
bb_wolfe said:
Horseshit.

R.click startbar, properties, start menu tab, customize, check RUN command.

Fucking noob.
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Admittedly noob'd. It's not that I don't believe you, but can I get a capture of that?
I'm not running anything that resembles Vista anymore... but I do actually have code in the OS that shipped, and if I didn't know about that checkbox [and then bothered bitching about it], I'll deservedly print your screenshot and hang it on my wall of shame. With a spoon pic.
 
bb_wolfe said:
Horseshit.

R.click startbar, properties, start menu tab, customize, check RUN command.

Fucking noob.
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Haha I don't think being a Vista noob is anything especially bad.

Anyways, so far I like Vista alright.
The only real complaint I have may not even be Vista's fault...but I swear it seems like my hard drives get bad sectors faster than they ever did using anything else.
 
uplinked said:
Admittedly noob'd. It's not that I don't believe you, but can I get a capture of that?
I'm not running anything that resembles Vista anymore... but I do actually have code in the OS that shipped, and if I didn't know about that checkbox [and then bothered bitching about it], I'll deservedly print your screenshot and hang it on my wall of shame. With a spoon pic.
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I'm totally billing you guys for tech support! lol


http://www.nickmattern.com/a4ddemo/a4ddemo.htm

Sorry about the noob comment, was in a really bad mood this AM.
 
=P Printscreen would've been fine.
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Get Windows 7, you don't even have to pay for it at the moment (legally)

I've been using the 64bit version as my main OS for two weeks now and so far all has been fine (no proper crashes, no BSOD's, etc). I completely skipped Vista and moved straight from XP.. there are some things about XP I'll miss (..subtlety) but unfortunately dev support for XP is slowing decreasing. Already Windows 7 is winning in most benchmarks and it hasn't even been RTM'd yet, however unless using Windows will be mandatory for some of your apps (or if your a gamer) I really suggest moving to Linux or Solaris

The new 'Libraries' feature is fucking retarded though.
 
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