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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rodrigo Istalindir" data-source="post: 3309564" data-attributes="member: 2810">Like others, I've been running an MSDN copy for a while.  I'm going to have to support it, so I figured I'd bite the bullet and live with it.  I wouldn't recommend anyone else do so unless they have no choice.1.  Hibernation is borked badly for a lot of people (and it's actually worse than it was in beta).  Since this was supposed to be one area of great improvement over XP, I'm a little surprised.2.  Application compatibility is hit or miss.  Some things work great, others not at all.  I suspect most stuff that is recent enough will get patches/workarounds, but for older software you may be SOL.   This is a pain for me because I have a couple really old apps that are either long discontinued, or the recent versions suck sufficiently that I don't want to upgrade.3.  The User Access Control is good in theory, but it's implementation was ill-considered.  The end result will be a minimal increase in computer security for well-implemented business PCs, and probably worse for end-users.4.  Performance on modern hardware actually isn't that bad.  I run it on the same PC as XP and the only real difference I notice is a lot of disk-thrashing at odd times and I'm not sure why.  Even games are only slightly slower, and I attribute a lot of that to the fact that the drivers for the video board are leaked beta drivers.  (For reference, the specs are C2D 6600, 2GB RAM, WD Raptor drives, and GeForce 8800GTS.)5.  Some of the UI enhancements are nice, and I suspect that once I live with it more I'll come to break the XP/2000 mindsent and appreciate it more (although since I still deal with XP on my work laptop and Xp/2000/2003 on all my clients' machines, it will be a long time before I leave that behind).  6.  DirectX 10 will probably be the killer app for me, but it will be several months before the first DX10 games hit, and likley a couple years before DX10-only games.7.  The DRM stuff doesn't really bug me since I'm not using the computer as a home theatre PC.  And since the driver for the DRM is the content providers, it really doesn't matter whether or not MS wanted to implement it or not.  If you want to watch HD/BluRay, you either invest in a console, a stand-alone player, or a HT PC.  In any situation, DRM is going to come into play.  Vista is no more intrusive than XP for the existing stuff I want to do.There isn't a compelling reason for any but a small % of people to upgrade.  Unlike Win98/ME to XP, there aren't any major technical differences that benefit the home user, and even fewer for the business crowd.I can live with it as is on my home PC, but I'm nowhere near willing to roll it out in a corporate environment.</blockquote>

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