Upgrading to Windows Vista - Can you afford it?

Windows Vista - you should upgrade to it? I suggest you wait. During my seventeen years in business computer support, I learned to avoid the initial version of a Microsoft product. But many of my clients have asked me if it is updated, I have a little 'research. Here's what I discovered.

There are six different versions of Vista, each on different markets, four for home users and two for business users. Home versions include> Vista Ultimate, which some extra cool, Vista Starter, advertises a lighter version for emerging markets outside the United States, Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium. Basic and Premium versions are on most new computers at home.

Business customers can choose between Windows Vista Business or Vista Enterprise. Vista Business is for small and medium-sized businesses in target markets, while Vista EnterpriseVolume Licensing large corporate clients. Here are the different versions. Let's take a look at the update process.

The upgrade from any Windows operating system is not easy to pull off. For this reason, the updates are provided in order to solve specific problems with the current version. The current Windows XP Professional SP2 (Service Pack Launched 2) was to solve the problems first question, which is also very well done. Windows XP SP2 is stable and works very well, so there iscompelling reason to replace it. Case closed until Microsoft has created a reason.

Microsoft forced the issue by announcing it will no longer offer Windows XP for purchase after June 30, 2008. As you can imagine, the economy, is heavily in Windows XP SP2, is not happy. In fact, by the time this article was published, Microsoft has changed its collective mind in response to noise, and a revolt that resulted from Info World, one of the most important technicalMagazine. The magazine has collected more than 200,000 signatures for a petition to Microsoft to continue offering Windows XP.

Microsoft has some 'of land and has offered a downgrade option. " If your company needs to make a Windows XP Professional after June 30 buy, you can request a downgrade Windows Vista Business or Ultimate Bonus "for the new computer. Dell Computer and Lenovo, another manufacturer has already announced it will offer thisPossibility of their clients.

Thus, the fact that the upgrade? Here are some facts I tell my clients on Vista:

Windows Vista Business is a very large system and requires special hardware and a lot of computing resources for execution. This means that you do when you are loading Vista Business on a PC that is currently running Windows XP Professional, and anything else to upgrade the hardware, this PC will run slower because Vistarequires more RAM and processor speed. So if you buy a new computer and are forced to buy Vista, you should also buy a lot of RAM, video RAM and a faster processor.
In addition, Microsoft has created more favorable (some might say intrusive) the functions of Vista, in an attempt to customers with Internet and PC security to help. These functions often generate pop-up messages on common tasks such as file moving. Users of computer experts are grumbling that this help "makes the computing experience more disturbing and confusing.
Corporate Information Technology (IT) departments are avoiding Vista. Vista was released in January 2007. Observed recently interviewed Gartner, a leading IT market research company, its business customers and only 1% of the internal Vista desktop updated after publication. Not firmly supported.
Vista was built from scratch, instead of Windows XP as the base. Therefore, the underlyingThe processes are very different than Windows XP. The result is that many old programs are not able to run under Vista. Software companies do not have to rush to deliver Vista-compatible version. If you upgrade to Vista, it is possible that some of your old software no longer works, and worse, no updates available.
The total upgrade costs can be considerable. Vista requires at least 2 GB of RAM and 128 MB of video RAMrunning very well, allowing you to contact the upgrade of computer hardware, just to get to a point where the installation of Vista. In addition, an upgrade version of Vista costs anywhere from $ 159 to $ 's 259 Added to come, you must disable anti-virus software and any updates to the printer and scanner, not because of the current device can be compatible with Vista.

So if you do not have a compelling reason to upgrade to Vista, I would avoidHeadaches and additional costs. Allow the bleeding-edge techno-addicts serve as guinea pigs. Personally, I'm waiting for the second release and eliminate the inevitable errors.

Finally, here's a look at the future - a new version of Windows will be released around January 2010 Maybe Microsoft will have an epiphany and realize that a new version of Windows to run faster and better than the version it replaced. We can only hope.