Advice on upgrading to Vista

[vehelpfulguy]

There are a few of us on this website who give computer advice on a regular basis.

One of the questions we are likely to start getting more of in the future is about upgrading to Vista.

Many of us have followed the tortuous path that Microsoft have followed in developing Vista so may wish to advise others.

So I have put this question in for those of us who know about computers to put their opinions about Vista and maybe advise those who are thinking about upgrading.

We can refer to this question every time we get a question about Vista.

[westcliffe]

my thanks to all who put vista into perspective,i will hang on

[Dudley]

I would just like to echo ermadea's grateful thanks to all you technofiles who help us on a regular basis. I too have been assisted by most of the names he mentioned. Like driving a car, I am ok with using computers but know nothing about how they work. I am nearly 70 and still work part time and really enjoy the extra facilities the computing world give me both for business and pleasure. From what has been said so far, think I will give Vista a miss for the time being. XP does me fine. Thanks again.

[fo3nix]

Great article from Bruce Schneier:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/ drm_in_windows.html

For those that don't know who he is, he's a very well-respected security expert/cryptographer.