The Age of Vista – does the ‘ow’ start now?

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Monday, 22 January 2007 21:21

Your IT - Entertainment

Check to ensure that your chosen software packages will flawlessly work in Vista. Most already do, but some will not, and if you depend on that software, you can’t upgrade until a update or a new version is made available.

And try to organise it so that you upgrade to Windows Vista by upgrading to a brand new computer, allowing you to keep on running your old computer side-by-side for as long as necessary, to transfer data and have a backup should you need it.

In a few months, most of these problems will melt away. A Windows Vista SP1 is already scheduled for the second half of this year, and from January 30 onwards, Microsoft’s Vista mantra will only increase exponentially in volume and intensity.

Unless you intend switching to another computing platform or operating system, Windows Vista is definitely in your future. There’s certainly a lot of wow in Vista to be found, and it truly is the version of Windows everyone should be using – it really is so good compared with Windows XP and especially all the older version.

But a lot of that wow will just have to wait until the consumer is ready, along with hardware and software vendors with their drivers and update packages.

The Age of Vista is upon us, and whether it’s this year, the next, or even the year after, 90% of the computer using world will likely be using it, ensuring Vista’s success in the marketplace no matter what the initial response will actually be, whether lukewarm, ecstatic or somewhere in between.

It’s just that, whichever way you look at it, upgrading anything costs money. If you want the latest and the greatest, prepare to whip out your wallet and know that the ‘ow’… starts now.