Originally posted by Pae
I'm so skeptical about windows now. I got burned by WinME back in the day. I was glad to stick with XP and not give in to hype and get Vista instantly... but again, once bitten... twice shy you know?

If Microsoft will release it soon, I'll still likely wait a year to upgrade various comps at home.
Funny you should say that, because if you google for 'windows me vista', you'll find a lot of people have suggested that Vista is going the way of Me.

Originally posted by Aristotle
We went with Vista recently for two major reasons: 1) support for 4+ gigs of ram and 2) 64 bit program support. We wanted both of these things and Vista was the only way to go. But I certainly cannot say it is something I am terribly excited about.
Doesn't XP-64 provide those features? I've never done any 64-bit coding; 4GB of addressable memory is enough for the things I do, so I'll leave the extra complexity and cost for the people who do video editing and such. (Even a 4GB _file_ is unusual on my system, though far from unheard-of. It is interesting, though, to discover what copy utilities are simply unable to cope with files that large, even if the file systems involved are both happy with big files.) According to my notes, Leshrak used to use XP 64, but that was almost two years ago now (20070217, alpha 4 of RosMud). He might be able to advise.