Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler Windows Vista.............how is it, so far?

Why do you think cable cards will be worthless? This is one of the things I have been waiting for for a media center. I want all the HD channels with the digital cable card and no antenna. A media center that can't record HD or only does OTA is no good to me.

They're only allowed for completely manufacturer-prebuilt computers. No build your own media centers with cable cards. Plus, good luck getting a CC 2.0 anytime soon.

I don't like the prebuilt part, but can live with it if it comes to that. The 2.0 part I don't care about much. I don't care much about on demand, and while the guide is nice I can live without it.

I'm moving in a couple of months, so I'll figure out what makes sense in the new house. FIOS will be available, I am hoping that means FIOS TV as well.

You PC would do a good job handling Vista.

But if you Win XP is working well for you, IMO don't bother to upgrade. I tried Vista is it isn't all that great. It is hyped up. It takes up a lot of resources and memory. I am into PC gaming and when I tried Vista I got my errors and my PC was more proned to crashes.

It happens to every new Windows OS that comes out to the market. M$ fixes bugs and issues after the first few months of release. After the first service pack, Vista should be fine.

I'd advise though to stick with Win XP for the time being.

I have yet to find one thing I like about Vista. This is the most irritating operating system MS has come out with yet. I am constantly clicking “allow” or some other F… pop up window to get it the heck out of my face. I’m already logged on as the administrator, but I find myself clicking this stupid allow button over and over again verifying I’m the administrator.

It has some ridiculous back up function that has been “full” from day one. I can’t even go into the back up drive and delete files to start over. I’m sure there’s a way to do this, but it’s not simple to find. It took me five years to figure out XP, now I get to start all over.

……Vista Sucks.

Ouch. Is this on a new computer or an upgraded XP machine?

New.... It came with Vista on it. If it was an upgrade, I'd have gone back to XP.

That's pretty sick. I guess that's another reason to hold off on building myself a new computer.

That reminds me of this MAC security commercial , my favorite of their current ad line.

That is dead on! I didn't want to cripple OS security either, but after 1 day just had to disable all of the Vista prompts. They drive one CRAZY!