D.Duck wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message
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It probably is going to be hard to buy an OEM version of Windows XP today,
but I would never install Windows Vista into a computer currently using
Windows XP.

Clean install?


No, I would not do a clean install Windows Vista over keeping Windows XP
because it has very few advantages over Windows XP, and I am sure their
will be many problems with Vista over the next year. If you think about
it it took MS two years to debug the major problems and security issues
from XP. I think it took 4 years to come out with SP2. Here are some
reviews of Windows Vista:

"Windows Vista: more than five years in the making, more than 50 million
lines of code. The result? A vista slightly more inspiring than the one
over the town dump. The new slogan is: "The 'Wow' Starts Now," and
Microsoft touts new features, many filched shamelessly from Apple's
Macintosh. But as with every previous version, there's no wow here, not
even in ironic quotes. Vista is at best mildly annoying and at worst
makes you want to rush to Redmond, Wash. and rip somebody's liver out.

Vista is a fading theme park with a few new rides, lots of patched-up
old ones and bored kids in desperate need of adult supervision running
things. If I can find plenty of problems in a matter of hours, why can't
Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people )? Most likely answer: It
did--and it doesn't care."
from Forbes
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Windows Vista has been in consumers' hands for about a week now and,
while there haven't been a flood of problems, there have been a few
bumps along the way.

Among the initial gripes are trouble installing or activating copies, as
well as reports that the operating system isn't working quite as they
expected. In addition to the sporadic reports of bugs and upgrade
issues, other people are discovering that hardware and software
incompatibilities are impeding their path to Vista.
from CNET

Experts: Don't upgrade to VIsta
One thing I love about DEMO is that I get to rub elbows with some of the
world's savviest tech press. All the product guys are here. Hanging out
in the lobby with them yesterday, I asked the question that is on the
mind of 90 percent of all computer users:

"Should I upgrade my computer to VISTA?"

I received a resounding "NO!" in three-part harmony.

It seems that Vista is great if you are buying a new PC, but right now
there are all sorts of incompatabilities with legacy software, the stuff
that's already in your computer. This will get worked out, one app at a
time, over the coming months, they speculate. But chances are you should
just wait to have Vista in your next machine--and the one I have right
now works just fine, thank you very much.