I've been using it since release day and I'm really suprised at how great it's been, the only issue I've encountered aren't really OS related, but because 3rd party apps haven't got their gold drivers and such out yet, such as for my GFX card (which seems to work fine with the beta drivers for Vista aside from some artefacts appearing in games) and iTunes.

Vista is by no means an essential nor necessary upgrade for anyone using XP Service Pack 2, I can agree with that much, but it's the collection of many, many small updates and tweaks that I really can't be arsed keeping track of via installing on XP and such that come with Vista which I'm enjoying.

To be honest, I'm really pleased with the OS and as an early adopter I was of course expecting to encounter a few issues but they've been few and far between, to my relief. Really pleased, wouldn't go back to XP in a heartbeat.

You all will go to Vista.... It blows XP out of the water. As I carry my laptop around and fire it up friends and associates always say one thing...... "Damn! that's a fast machine!"

Well, it is a stout laptop but it was not this fast until Vista.....

I've never gotten a blue screen.

You all will be saying...... Geez, I wish I'd installed this thing sooner. The only problems I could see someone having is trying to run it on a wimpy machine.

Can't install MS Virtual PC 2007 on a Linux box can I? ;)

Tis ok m8, were not all perfect lol :D

This is how I'm going to decide if I ever have to downgrade to a Windows OS!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v57/24fan001/915.gif

And yes I said "downgrade". Mac OS X is totally superior than windows...

I am not touching it until at least SP1. By then the driver issues will be worked out...I hope. And the HDCP stuff will ether be worked out as well, or it will be shown as such an issue that I will not want to switch.

Just uninstalled the beta from my main PC. Testing Ubuntu and it's latest release.

I tried Vista for a couple of weeks and returned back to XP. The Aero interface was good and I think there is nothin to complain about that On thing that sucks is UAC. Turn it off or life's gonna be hell for ya!

But Vista fails miserably at gaming - thanks to the nVidia drivers. Rest works fine. I could get most of the things to work fine on Vista.

I got so used to Vista that it took me a couple of days to get fully used to XP again!!

Maybe I will try Vista again after 3 months.

Are you on about that thing where you have to aurthorize every bloddy minor thing you do lol?
If so it took me a little while but i managed to switch it off and it was Bliss (scuse the pun lol) after that :)

I tried installing it on my computer on an empty hard drive i had laying around. I got the blue screen of death after the initial installation.

Not good at all. Supposedly it was due to my Realtek 97' on board audio.

I will probably stay away from Vista for the next while until everything becomes compatible or i get a newer system.

That is strange i have the Realtek 97 and didnt have a problem with it