I should mention, or I couldn’t call myself an I.T. professional, that Microsoft released their Vista Operating system to everyone today. Previously it has been only available to developers and businesses, just so that they could run their applications on it before the system came out to the rest of the world. It also seems to have the most complicated pricing structure I have ever seen of any microsoft product, and each type is called something odd that doesn’t really describe the difference between one version and another.
Pricing options aside, the question you are probably wondering( or if anyone actually read this they might be wondering) is this. Will I be buying it?
Probably not. I tend to wait until the first service pack comes out before I commit myself. So if there are any major security flaws they will be fixed before I get hold of it. Also I don’t see why I should pay out a lot of money (over £100) to get a brand new Operating System when I have a nice working copy of WindowsXP. I would be buying it for the Aero graphics system alone. I think in about 6 – 8 months I will probably have a more serious look but for now it´s a luxuary I can´t afford.
