Is Vista worth upgrading to or wait for Windows 7

[hanselthecaretaker]

support for 32 bit apps will still be good for the next 5 years.

too many legacy devices for MS to kill the 32 bit os completely.

Why dont you download the windows 7 beta and see how you like it before you commit?

I'd want to reformat before installing a beta OS. Damn me for not making a bigger partition.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

support for 32 bit apps will still be good for the next 5 years.

too many legacy devices for MS to kill the 32 bit os completely.

Why dont you download the windows 7 beta and see how you like it before you commit?

Yeah you're right it will be a while before it's killed, I should've clarified 64 bit availability vs replacement. I want to at least have 64 bit support for the software that's using it already. Most of the major software players have 64 bit versions out now. I read that 32 bit support in 64 bit Vista is actually pretty good, and each has their own program folder. Vista sounds good now for the most part, but Windows 7 sounds even better and it's still only in beta.

 

[Gawd]

I'd want to reformat before installing a beta OS. Damn me for not making a bigger partition.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx

 

[UA_Iron]

I'd want to reformat before installing a beta OS. Damn me for not making a bigger partition.

use partition magic, change the size within windows.

Use vista boot manager once you're dual booting make which ever OS you prefer to boot into the default one. Then change the time out from like 20 seconds to 5 seconds.

Thats what I did.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx

Damn that sounds cool. Worth a try. Have you used it, just curious about how it coexists with what's physically on your pc and how it impacts performance. Is it just like installing a hard copy of the OS on your drive the traditional way?

 

[Gawd]

Damn that sounds cool. Worth a try. Have you used it, just curious about how it coexists with what's physically on your pc and how it impacts performance. Is it just like installing a hard copy of the OS on your drive the traditional way?

Yes..
It works great. I used VMWare before, but I imagine Virtual PC works the same. You dedicated as much resources to the setup as required.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

So it's a battle between Partition Magic and Virtual PC....

 

[Gawd]

Well Virtual PC is easy.. I'd try it out, if you don't like the performance, go the partition magic route.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Well Virtual PC is easy.. I'd try it out, if you don't like the performance, go the partition magic route.

Yeah it's worth a try to try out Windows 7 at least. I'll see how it works and post up.

.....shit I need XP Professional, Home's not supported apparently.

 

[Gawd]

Yeah it's worth a try to try out Windows 7 at least. I'll see how it works and post up.

.....shit I need XP Professional, Home's not supported apparently.

Apparently it will still work on Windows XP Home. It will just give you an error saying the OS Isn't supported, you should be able to ignore it and continue.