Well the day has come... Windows Vista has been released to businesses..

Ive had the final MSDN installed on my A64 rig for a week now and its been rock solid.

Only gripes i have are purely driver related mainly because my Nvidia drivers and Soundblaster drivers are still beta..

EDIT: NV have just released some proper vista drivers

anyone else jumped on the RTM bandwagon?

fairly sure we're still waiting on a username/password to download the iso :thumbdwn:

What exactly are the advantages over XP then?

Err.. faster, more secure, nicer looking lol

oh and it has the wicked 3d task switcher

Err.. faster, more secure, nicer looking lol

oh and it has the wicked 3d task switcher

The RC2 Beta version I had was admittedly pretty cool looking, but I couldn't find the 3D task thingy. I like the way it appeared to repair itself (or was it just sending details of bugs back to Chateau Gates so the final version would be fixed?)

It was a bit faster, but then after that, I couldn't really see owt in iit that was ground breaking or unique.

What does it look like then?

A bit like this sometimes

So just like XP then?

I have been running vista RTM for a while now, installed without a key which means it will work for 30 days (having trouble accessing the select agreement online). Hopefully will get a valid key from MS in a week or two.

We have found a few of our corporate tools that dont work, testing is continuing.

I've no intention of installing/using Vista at home...

As I no longer work in tech support I can't see me using it at work anytime soon either

is the "business" version essentially the "professional" version of XP? with the "home" edition of vista being the "home" version of XP?

reason I ask is that I will purchase Vista Business if this is the case as XP Pro has all the functionality of Home but more...

So no actually useful changes in the interface then?

Err.. faster, more secure, nicer looking lol

oh and it has the wicked 3d task switcher

:really:

Vista versions,

Vista home is as the current home edition

Vista home premium is the same as above but has added mediacenter capability.

Vista business is as current XP Pro.

Vista ultimate is business plus mediacenter capability, and tablet pc functionality and more besides.

:really:

To be honest i *am* finding it quicker than XP... the new prefetch functions are doing their job.....

The pic above posted by royston is a very early version. the RTM desktop looks nothing like this.

os X 10.5 anyone?

To be honest i *am* finding it quicker than XP... the new prefetch functions are doing their job.....

How does that work any differently to any other "second-guess what the user actually wants to do" function?

Personally, I reckon that, if I can load and paginate a 250some (no mistake) document in about 2s, it'll make no beneficial difference.

Pics from Vista RTM version

Have it, but cba.

A job for Monday

Any idea when Dell will start shipping new machines with Vista installed?

Any idea when Dell will start shipping new machines with Vista installed?

Well theyve just added vista as list of O/S on their support page.. not many drivers atm

os X 10.5 anyone?

Yep, I think I'll stick with OSX.

How does that work any differently to any other "second-guess what the user actually wants to do" function?

Personally, I reckon that, if I can load and paginate a 250some (no mistake) document in about 2s, it'll make no beneficial difference.

Well its intellegent in the way it monitors users... when i log onto my machine i run outlook and messenger.. so it caches part of the programs so they start quicker..

check out this article that shows some of the performance bits and bobs

how come the windows are slanted?