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Originally posted by John Anderton
This is retrospect is nothing considering the number of features you have at your disposal. I would say, from a technical standpoint, Vista is certainly worth the upgrade. From a financial one, its up to you to decide but I for one felt its well worth the price you pay
I do not share your opinion. Despite being able to buy perfectly legal Vista at about 90% discount, I find that Vista Ultimate is not worth even $65 to me. I'd sooner pay to not have to use it.
My objection is not about hardware requirements (I have decent hardware). Besides the eye candy, I find most of the changes MS has made in Vista completely obnoxious and as far the "new features" go, MS can shove them. The job of the OS is to run applications and, quite frankly, XP seems to do that better.
I feel that MS has gone in completely the wrong direction with Vista. It is unfortunate that there is no real competition, so despite being trash, it will still sell and eventually, thanks to Microsoft's product lifecycle polices, even I will find myself forced to use it. However, I don't plan to do so any sooner than I absolutely must.
For the original poster, I would suggest looking at the upgrade decision as a "why do it?" question rather than "why not?" -- what does Vista have that you really need and don't have in XP? If the answer is "nothing" or "I don't know", then save your money and sanity.
