View Poll Results: So When Will You Get Vista

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  • Immediately

    4 6.90%
  • When i upgrade my computer

    8 13.79%
  • When i buy some components (OEM)

    2 3.45%
  • When an academic version comes out

    4 6.90%
  • I love the penguin (i use linux)

    12 20.69%
  • XP (2000/98/ME) is fine by me.

    26 44.83%
  • Do we need a vista poll?

    8 13.79%
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Thread: How long till you adopt Vista?

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  1. #11
    I really don't want to sound negative, but I will be honest in this post...
    We have discussed Vista quite a few times at work. An upgrade to Vista just won't happen in the next 5 years for us. I just got all of the windows 98 machines off of our network. We have approximately 300 machines and 28 servers. The hardware requirements to use all the Vista features are just unreal. The licencing issues are definately not flying with my boss. It has been said before and I must say it again. I can do so much more with a less demanding OS.
    I doubt I will be using Vista at home either. I am running XP on all of my systems at home. And FreeBSD on my Proliant 800 server. This is the first time I've installed an open source OS outside of a virtual environment. I am impressed with it's performance.
    I really can't justify the cost of Vista. I don't like the way Vista is broken down into levels either. If you can't afford the full version, why buy a crippled version? My BSD, and XP Pro machines have all the features available. The cost of the current Windows OS (XP Pro) was enough to make me pause before purchasing.

    Hopefully they will adjust the pricing someday, and hardware will become INCREDIBLY cheap....I may then reconsider.
    Last edited by Clp727; November 4th, 2006 at 05:48 PM.

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