CNET.com Windows Vista Software and Hardware reviews: http://www.cnet.com/4520-13111_1-6687520-1.html?tag=prmo1
i heard a lot of software, especially a trading software is not copativle with it yet. like in anything new, i am sure there will be a ton of bugs at first. i'd rather wait until they resolve the issues taht, undoubtebly, will appear.
Iranians supposedly cracked Vista and selling $8 a copy ! http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37441
performance review: upgrade vs clean install http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,2089952,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532
I have has vista business installed on an extra hd for the last week. Its very fancy but into the core menus its just xp. Lots of trouble with new drivers and some of my old software will not work. There are some nice features but overall I will not use it. I think that vista is a major mistake for microsoft in the long run.
I've worked on a few computers with Vista and it's nothing but a pain in the ass. Software installs suck and the computers literally take 25 minutes to boot up/restart.
Apple warning ipod users about vista. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/06/napple106.xml
And from that paper: "Guttman's research suggests that consumers will pay more for less with poorer picture quality yet higher costs since Microsoft needed to obtain licences from third parties in order to access the technology that protects premium content (those licence fees were presumably incorporated into Vista's price). Moreover, he calculated that the technological controls would require considerable consumption of computing power with the system conducting 30 checks each second to ensure that there are no attacks on the security of the premium content. Microsoft responded to Guttman's paper earlier this month, maintaining that content owners demanded the premium content restrictions. According to Microsoft, "if the policies [associated with the premium content] required protections that Windows Vista couldn't support, then the content would not be able to play at all on Windows Vista PCs." While that may be true, left unsaid is Microsoft's ability to demand a better deal on behalf of its enormous user base or the prospect that users could opt-out of the technical controls. When Microsoft introduced Windows 95 more than a decade ago, it adopted the Rolling Stones "Start Me Up" as its theme song. As millions of consumers contemplate the company's latest upgrade, the legal and technological restrictions may leave them singing "You Can't Always Get What You Want.""