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First things... it looks pretty...
Then - it'll eat your hardware, chew it up and spit it out..
But if you must...
You'll need some shiznat if you have a SoundBlaster card, head on over here http://neosmart.net/blog/2006/vista-sound-drivers/. Yes, that's right - now you can use your very own SoundBlaster card in your very own vista machine.. Wow...
ALSO...
Don't plan on using vista for any of the following:
Partition magic 8 won't work with vista (Hi FOSI), but partition manager 8.5 does (again, Hi). That's just in case you're wondering about dual booting with another OS, something I think you're quite likely to do if you do decide to use vista on your home machine. Not because you feel technically savvy, but out of necessity to run what will soon be generally considered 'legacy applications'.
All in all, the conclusion drawn from this is pretty simple, Vista is just is not ready yet, the proof? There are flaws in Windows explorer that cause it to crash, and a crashed vista aero interface is not as sleek as Microsoft might like. Though really an inconvenience for me, another user might not know that they need to end the explorer process and use the Task Manager to run 'explorer.exe', most people would probably just leap straight for the power button...
Yes... the power button, interesting that in this age of global warming and consciousness of our 'carbon footprint'.. Microsoft should elect to - by default - set the power button on your computer not to shut down, but to Vista's special sleep/hibernate feature, the intricacies of which I will not delve into, suffice to say it puts your computer in 'standby' then turns it off after a period of time.. only, I wanted to turn my computer off now thank you very much, not in half an hour when windows has decided I've probably left the room.
Don't get me wrong... Vista is good, it's just not ready yet... and this is the only beta test that I've ever been involved in, where I was first required to purchase a license to participate in the form of a Product Key.
And beta test this is.. new bugs are discovered and submitted to Microsoft using its error reporting, although this can yield some productive results, it generally depends on Vista's ability to recover from a 'stop condition'. Though I have seen Vista recover, I have also seen it fail. Due to compatibility and driver issues, I have had to reinstall vista on multiple occasions, and discovered my x64 problem the hard way. Asides, there still seems to remain a difficulty in Vista to report on hardware problems, or give any indication as to which specific piece of hardware is at fault, resulting in the infamous Blue Screen of Death, only this time you can expect a different stop message every time - further confusing matters. I would not encourage somebody to use vista on a machine you would prefer to be reliable.
It is worthy of note however, that despite how many times I have had to install vista, I have lost no data in the process.
At some, undefined point in the future, Vista may be as loved as xp for reliability [ha.. just thought about that!], but not yet.
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