Well I'm about to make the plunge, thanks to an agreement with my place of employment (well one of them), where I'm basically paying them directly for the cost of 1 additional liscense under their organizational account for 1 additional computer, and then get a copy of the CD for my home computer. Well given I sometimes have needed to remote access their server from home, for work related stuff, at least some work does get done on it, for them....
Needless to say, I think I had about had it with some of Vista's hickups (I used winXP until I needed to acquire a second hand laptop from my sister after the motherboard on my Athlon 64 died). All I can say is Vista was pretty horrible vs other systems, and as I actually did have it in beta (was an MSDN subscriber when it was in beta), I don't think the final version looked much better then what I saw of it in beta
Yeah this computer is slightly dated with a 1.7 GHz duel core Intel 64-bit, and just 2 GB of RAM, but that said my impressions of Vista has been that it runs somewhat horribly on many systems, why many in the past did downgrade to winXP. 7 on other comps, did seem to run a bit smoother. As win7 is getting rolled out there, it'd also help with fixing their comps, if I actually have time to mess with the system a little, rather then encounter it all only after they have a problem with it :lol:
I do wonder however how much of a difference will be had given that the OEM to thix laptop put a 32-bit version of Vista on a comp with 64-bit CPU cores. I know matter of fact they did this, by CPU-z's indication of the CPU, and also checking the Intel website on the CPU's model number and all, to see what their own white sheets identify the part as. My past experience when I beta tested on my Athlon 64 was that there was a difference until one was swaping (swapping killed it), but as that older comp had only 1 GB of RAM, it wasn't much of a load added on top of Vista before it was swapping badly.
Course the main consideration is gaming performance, and I know the stupid Intel gfx they have on this thing is yuck, but it's one of those any bit I can get out of this thing; means happier raiders I'm entering into instance groups with, lol
Oh and on the needing escalated permissions, there was one place I did run into where this can be a pain. If one's users directory is on a USB/external hard drive, it sees the old store for one's mail folder, etc as being a seperate "unknown" account. Was a bit of a headache before I put that one together on why I couldn't get old mail folders up in Thunderbird, when the thing was set to different location on the mail store, the external hard drive with my mail archives for the last 12 years or so... Pretty much have to run Thunderbird in administrative mode now, due to that, etc