I installed Vista on 3 machines this week, my office machine, my Toshiba laptop and my home Dell machine.
Installation tips
- The installation is really smooth. The OS asks a few questions asks for your code and then pretty much does everything else. Even on my tricky Toshiba installation everything went smoothly.
- Make sure you disable all anti virus applications.
- The software needs at least 8gb of free space to install.
- Make sure you go to the web site of your manufacturer and download all the latest BIOS and other device drivers before you begin the installation.
- Make sure you backup all your documents before beginning the install.
- If you can a clean install where you wipe off all old data and start from scratch wil lyield best performance.
The OS is pretty stable and I did not experience any major crashes.
The only problem I observed was that outlook 2005 B2Tr would not work as well and required a reinstall to get working (Buts that probably a problem with the beta)
Some applications such as ACDSee won't work right away but will work once reinstalled. You won't need it as Vista now has its own photo gallery which is pretty good. Most other applications seemed to work well, though I had some problems with Acrobat.
The Aqua interface is nice but a bit overdone on the transparencies.
All in all its getting to be more like a Mac.
Visit the features site for a more in depth listing.......Vista Feature Site
Happy installation, its coming by January 2007
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