I am building a computer and am probably going to get Vista. I will probably get the Home Premium, but if I can get my work to fit the bill, I might get Vista Ultimate.
I have several programs, some are games and some are learning utilities like RouterSim, and some are applications like OpenOffice, Word 2003, et cetera.
When I make my machine, will most XP installable programs work on Vista? I am not going to install anything media related until I check out all of Vista's abilities, but I would like to put on some of my programs.
Thoughts/experience?
I read one review that said Vista was Microsoft's next generation ME OS. Ouch! I hope that is not the case.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
Yeah, most everything XP should install on Vista. Some if it you'll need to run as administrator to get working (such as, say, RealVNC).
I disagree its MS's next generation ME. I'm a mac head, and Vista is fairly decent (I just spent nearly a week using Home Premium intensively on my new laptop at PyCon, the Python programming language conference). There are some interesting interactions between doing things on the command line (mmm, cygwin) and the privileges system that might result in me turning UAC (I think that's the acronym) off, but otherwise I haven't minded.
Some of the software I've installed has been written for fairly old versions of windows, too.