Windows Vista... 2 thumbs down

[Soultrader]

Spent over 6 hours today saving files, moving them, etc.. to upgrade to a Vista Business Edition. Such a junkie to new tech gadgets and software I had high hopes for this one. WRONG!! For those looking to purchase Vista, I highly recommend you stick with XP. Vista is extremely slow and not ideal for traders who want a fast machine. I would say you need at least 2gb of RAM to run this thing smoothly.

Now with Office 2007.... I couldnt even understand how to use excel that I had to switch back to Office 2003. grrrrrrrrrr.....

[TinGull]

Yay for windows.....

[Kiwi]

XP is great. My E6600 duo with 2GB of fast ram is happy to stay with XP.

The true techies who've been upgrading to vista are saying "at least 4 GB of ram" ... and don't forget that this implies the computer has to move all this stuff around to use the extra RAM (time).

The weird thing is that all these laptops are now coming out with Vista and 512MB. And vista won't play high quality legitimate video with as good a resolution as you can get with XP. Vista: "You can't always get what you want."

[notouch]

Office 2007 is total junk. It's designed so that people who didn't know how to use the previous versions can find stuff easier but if you already know how to find what you need then you'll be annoyed that everything has been moved. I'll definitely be trying the 64 bit version of Vista though because I hear that if you have a decent system it will run faster than XP.

[keymoo]

I really like office 2007, but you're right vista sucks as a trading platform.

[Soultrader]

	Quote:	notouch
	Office 2007 is total junk. It's designed so that people who didn't know how to use the previous versions can find stuff easier but if you already know how to find what you need then you'll be annoyed that everything has been moved. I'll definitely be trying the 64 bit version of Vista though because I hear that if you have a decent system it will run faster than XP.

ahhh yes completely. They made it so annoying. It was taking me more than 30min to figure out a small function in excel that out of frustration I switched back to my old office. Although the new Word is nice.... even outlook was annoying.

On a quick note: The only thing good about Vista is the new sidebar gadgets.

[Soultrader]

I am back to Windows XP. Vista officially sucks.

[TinGull]

*whispers* get a mac.....get a mac........

[GCB]

How long now before Microsoft issues an "update" for XP that breaks it in order to force people to move to Vista?

Be careful of those "essential updates" from now on.

[ezduzzit]

Come on guys.. knowing Microsoft's legendary history of delivering bug laden and cumbersome software, especially during major upgrades, it makes little sense to rush out and become one of the early adopters.

They claim this software is the first product that cues its own performance to the hardware capacities of your individual pc. That may well be true but my guess is it is slanted towards having the most high end components possible if you want decent performance from it and thus we all should probably remain content with using XP in whatever version we have grown comfortable, at least for the time being (or a Mac, for those who got fed up with all this stuff long ago).

When I decide to invest in a new trading pc, I intend to have a certain party build it (that's all they do) and I am sure they will accommodate me by loading it with my old reliable XP until such time as Vista is modified to run better on the majority of machines out there (which may take quite some time.)

Happy Trading