Someone told me that I could download Windows Vista off the interent
for free. Is this true? Is it safe?

I doubt you can get it for free, might be a priated version and safe,
thats a negetive on that one. If you Xp then stick with that because
Vista is I think $200(Not sure on this one)

I don't know if it's safe, but it has to be illegal. Operating systems
are expensive.

To the best of my knowledge you can download from Microsoft,, But it is
not free..

i don't know why you would want to it sucks

but hey what do i know

Hello Robin , You know alot,,, And my son in law said the
same thing,, He owns his own IT company...

Have a great day

well thx

i checked it out on a friends computer

and they asked if i had a copy of xp they could put on it

i just laughed and said ya should have got it a month sooner

it total sucks

hugs to you dear

Yeah, I've had some more experience with Vista recently, and I don't
like it. File management activities are terribly slow, and of course it
doesn't let you do anything else with the files while you are moving
them and such.

This is on a dual core 1.7x2 machine, 1 gig ram, and the whole system
drags a little. Ubuntu on the same system moves like lightening.

The only good thing I can say about Vista, is that it looks nice!

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Yeah, I've had some more experience with Vista recently, and I don't
like it. File management activities are terribly slow, and of course it
doesn't let you do anything else with the files while you are moving
them and such.
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haha, I read recently there's a whole conspiracy theory about the file
management being slow. Apparently MS released a patch to fix it, and
the patch had no effect, so there are rumors flying around that MS has
stuff in there for digital rights management and that's why they aren't
fixing it.

I personally don't much care for vista. I haven't used it
extensively...but I've done some testing with it and it just sucks.

Win Vista is new and its cool but need to upgrade most of the hard ware
which is not compatable with Vista... just keep this in mind folks

It has a cool looking interface but for now I'm saying no thanks.
I like to stay a year behind on upgrades so they can work the bugs out.
Microcrash has built in internet activation for their software so piracy
isn't going to work. My ex just bought a new computer with Vista and
hates it because none of her software works right. I feel so bad for
her.

yep u cannot get vista off the internet.. but u have to kill your hard
drive after u finish copying it.. and all the cracks

I am using Windows Vista Ultimate Edition 64 bit. I love it. There are
ways to install it for free but that's a topic for another day. I work
with Solaris Unix Servers in my career but with the new Windows Vista
Ultimate OS, it is great on my home computer. The interface is very
user friendly. First operating system from Microsoft you actually don't
have to wait for SP 2 (i.e. XP) to come out to make it function
correctly.

I have extensivly used vista, checking for imcompatiblitys in multi
different ways shapes forms and functions with multipal progs. From my
gatherings, vista sux. I even have many friends that bought new PCs with
it installed, and they don't even like it. Sure it has a very nice
looking GUI, but it is nothing more than the copyng of 'eye candy' ideas
that many linux distros have already had included for years. So why pay
hundreds of dollars for an OS that is limited and locked and decides
what you can install or not, when you can buy an OS that is totally free
with no limitations. That graphically looks just as good if not better.

just talked to a good friend in the it dept at a
local branch fo a college


says to run decently at all

vista should have 1gig of ram just for it

so if yer buying a new system with vista on it better make sure it has
at least 2gigs of ram installed

or plan on waiting and waiting and waiting

be well all

Oh I'm sorry that there was something else. thathandsomebrotha, Win
vista does have a 'hard drive killer' built into it, that makes it
almost impossible to install a different earlier version of windows
after a vista install. The best way that I found to wipe the drive, is
to use a linux OS to reformat the drive, then you can reformat it again
into ntfs for winxp to make it work. MrSandman_Reborn, you are a day
late and a dollar short to get a free beta that is legal. Also the price
range for this vista OS can run aproxx between 200 and 400 dollars.

i have yet to talk to anyone that actually

likes vista

>>says to run decently at all
vista should have 1gig of ram just for it
so if yer buying a new system with vista on it better make sure it has
at least 2gigs of ram installed

Adj, I second that.

I ran vista on a 1 gig machine for a week, and it -crawled-. I'm amazed
at what many consumers find as acceptable performance these days. For a
few hundred dollars we can buy PCs that put the old supercomputers to
shame - and yet we find it acceptable to -wait- for our computer to do
simple everyday tasks, just because someone put some bloated software
between us and our tasks? On the other hand, Ubuntu was wicked fast on
the same machine.

More recently I ran Vista on a 2gig machine (both machines were dual
core, with quality graphics cards), and its still annoying to me how
slow it is.

Vista Ultimate runs great on the system I built last year (4gb ram, AMD
dual core cpu, 2 x 512 mb sli vcs). It is also running great on a cheap
system I built for a couple hundred dollars that has 2 gb ram, 256 mb
AGP vc. As cheap as ram is why would you want to try to run it on 1 gb
ram?

Yes, why IS Microsoft making these claims? Is it because they believe
that most consumers are sheep, and will gladly suffer inferior
performance just to jump on the bandwagon?

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A Windows Vista Capable PC includes at least:

* A modern processor (at least 800MHz¹).
* 512 MB of system memory.

A Windows Vista Premium Ready PC includes at least:

* 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor¹).
* 1 GB of system memory.'
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Why ARE showroom vendors selling products at these specs with Vista
preloaded???