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I'm just curious if the people that are so anti-vista in this thread have actually run a system with vista on it. Of course doing an upgrade instead of a clean install runs more risks. Just backup data (not programs etc), and a clean install of vista, drivers, and applications and you'll be running well if your machine can handle the version of vista you're installing.
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I am anti Vista because of Palladium. Tough it's ok to try to stop internet sharing of music and programs, it's totally outrageous that this technology locks your hardware if it's not one that he can recognize. Actually this means it's been "approved by" and registered to (by paying a certain amount) a certain society (the one founded by the palladium consortium). And it's the death of freeware too, because you'll need to pay to register your programs in order to them to be recognized by the system (if it's not, the program is locked because considered "possibly hacked").
This is something I read a couple of years ago.
By the way, I tried vista on another PC and I have to say: it gave me problems, it asked for stupid amount of memory and this only for the sake of an idiotic new cool look... I disabled the desktop graphic on my XP (I can't remember the correct name of this option.. my desktop just look like the 98 version). One word: faster. It's supposed to be an OS, it should concentrate on do his work good (or just doing it, in certain cases), instead of providing majorly only some graphic.