The new windows from microsoft (VISTA) is really great. Its gonna be launch in UK on the 30th of this month. It is quite different from all d softwares that has been launched.

Is anyone thinking of buying it?

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yeah its really expensive. d cheapest which is for upgrade is almost £100 but i think its worth it.

Nigeria based user will probably wait till like 2nd February. It is not likely to be at Ikeja before then, i.e the "low priced edition"

Isn't Windows Vista a mere imitation of Mac OS X? I doubt if it's worth the number of years it took Microsoft to get it out, albeit behind schedule.

no its nt

Go check and you would find out that Mac (OS X) users have already been enjoying for years the (new) features Windows Vista prides itself on.

ok

d (Vista's)entertainment feature is vry great though

Yea, that's true, but hey, try Mac OS X (Leopard) someday! Anywayz, like someone noted, "The more things change, the more they stay the same."

Microsoft have always been a copycat. That was how they started. There's no doubt about this fact. They got this concept from Apple. I don't think experienced Mac users will make any move. Who knows, Apple might come up with something new too.

@sbucarrer
your point is unclear to me, but the brunt of your argument seems to be that vista requires all these new hardware capabilities to run properly. if thats the case im afraid not so; vista runs on 500mhz front side bus as well as gigabyte mboards, and dual core (which is not the same as dual processor) is not a vista prerequisite. vista capable systems usdually have a minimum requirement of 1ghz single core cpu, 512mb ram and 128mb grafx ram (my vista release candidate ran on 64mb intel express). but vista ready systems require at least 1.8-2ghz solo core, 1gb ram, and a 256mb grafx chipset. this is because vista is mostly eyecandy and needs powerful grafx cards and directX 10 particularly for the new Aero style interface and Flip3D, which are sadly missing in basic vista designed for vista capable systems with the specs i mentioned above. therefore, vista is fully 32bit compliant.
yes a lot of vista components are ripped off from mac osx, but that isnt always a bad thing. apple too rips off ideas from other folks every now and then, so lets not chew off gates' head.
but why the mad dash for vista? winxp styill packs quite a punch and you can redo it into a perfect vista clone with Windows X's Vista transformation Pack 6.6. you get a pseudo-aero style transparency by way of glass 2k (which you can get stand alone from www.chime.tv)< you get vista style visual tooltip, styler's toolbar, vista sidebar widgets, vista logon screen, vista sounds and wallpapers, icons, visual styles, even vista bootscreen. frankly few people can tell you are running on xp rather than windows vista. its a cool shellpack. just google vtp 6.6, or vista transformation pack 6.6.
be warned: once you install vtp 6.6, you can uninstall ONLY if you have a win xp recovery disc.

why don't you go to download.com and read up the reviews there?it seems most hardcore/advanced computer users do not find anything particularly impressive about vista.plus- don't be fooled, a LOT of your applications will probably not run all that well on vista. i'd say wait till sp1 comes out.
also, remember that those wonderful graphics of vista come with a price-if you don't have an optimum/recommended configuration(not a minimum configuration) u'll have a lot of hang time on your pc, cheers.

Why would anyone want to run a vista transformation pack and take a hit on their RAM? Don't any of y'all game?

It's about time we all stopped believing this 'mac is good for video editing and 3d' bullcrap! In a recent interview with one movie magazine, an Industrial Light and Magic exec said that they do all their work on windows pcs.
Industrial Light and Magic, BTW, is the world biggest and most famous 3d and video editing company. They did all the work on all the Star Wars and Jurassic Park among many many other films.
I wont be surprised if there's no Mac to be found in Pixar!