07 Mar
Vista Users Software Upgrades Can Be Costly
Seems a lot of new Vista users are finding upgrading their program’s software is costly PC World reports. Complaints so far have been well known regarding Vista’s issues with drivers and needed hardware upgrades. Companies like Adobe and Symantec are only releasing Vista compatible versions to new releases and still-in-development future products. Free patches to existing versions of many programs are becoming things of the past it seems with many companies. Security and Multimedia software seem to be the biggest headache for vendors prompting many loyal XP version users to stay put with their current operating systems for now. So for now, many applications you like or may need will work with Vista, as long as you buy the new version.
I recently found out the hard way that Vista may not be the best idea for the budget builder. I just finished building a new AM2 3800+ machine for my sister with Vista 64bit. Her graphics card goes blank screen for a second whenever the annoying Administration rights popup rears its ugly head, and I had to install nVidia beta drivers for her IGP 6150 so that it would play DVD’s in full screen. Then, much to my chagrin, AVG Free tells me that I must purchase the software for it to run under Vista64, because it is not available with the Free license for that platform.
Dont get me wrong, I am very impressed with the OS as a whole thus far, but just cant get over hurdles so far getting a budget system up and running with Vista64.
March 7th, 2007 at 11:59 amHearing stories like this a lot. My friend got so sick of the issues with Vista he gave up and reinstalled xp. New operating systems always come with bugs but this reminds me so much of the release of Windows 95. That was a huge mess to say the very least but it did become a pretty table OS after a couple years. Then 98 came in and 95 was a thing of the past. I don’t even want to scare the hell out of everyone and mention, shall I say it, Windows ME (still gives me nightmares)!
March 7th, 2007 at 12:56 pmI am wondering if sticking to major OEM manufacturers until Vista gets a majority of the bugs fixed and drivers released would be the best idea for non-technical folk. Let the people like Dell and HP worry about platform drivers and incompatible software for now, and I’ll reconsider building a Vista machine in the future. It just sucks that my test platform wasnt my own, and I dont have access to it daily to run tests and install upgrades.
Call me weird, but I am considering purchasing Vista for my own machine, just so that I have a good grasp on it’s design and flaws so that I can be of better service to those experiencing issues.
March 7th, 2007 at 2:13 pmI would do it if I had a good back up pc. My wife would kill me if I used hers as a test dummy.
March 7th, 2007 at 3:27 pmIntel said they would not upgrade untill at least the first major service pack release.
March 7th, 2007 at 7:23 pm