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So who will have it outa the box?

I'm told I qualify for a free upgrade, but is it worth the risk?

get your free upgrade as soon as you can, and keep it in its box for at least 6 months - then consider it

It will be buggy, and some programs etc will take time to get fixed - I seem to remember that we went through the same process with win95, win98, win ManyErrors and winXP....

I dont think I'd get it until it was released with it's SP2 included. It'd take that long to Beta test it to the point it's semi secure...

Did I say Beta test, I meant get feedback off paying customers....

Hmm... Beta testing then...

I took part in the beta testing on it, thats why I think they're offering me a free copy.

I like the GUI, but it was buggy and it did crash now and again (nothing like Win 95 tho, which was appaling).

Yeah, but in all honesty it should be free, for everyone! Windows is constantly, sometimes majorly, updated off the back of reports sent to MS. I'd call that Beta testing, which would indicate, to me at least, the product isnt ready for release to paying customers. MS have been like that since... Windows started!!

Come the revolution, Linux will rule.

do a google for Vista Inspirat - install and get many of the nice features of vista on xp now...

Kwackerz wrote:Yeah, but in all honesty it should be free, for everyone! Windows is constantly, sometimes majorly, updated off the back of reports sent to MS. I'd call that Beta testing, which would indicate, to me at least, the product isnt ready for release to paying customers. MS have been like that since... Windows started!!

Come the revolution, Linux will rule.

I suppose you think linux doesn't have major upgrades

Gio wrote:

Kwackerz wrote:Yeah, but in all honesty it should be free, for everyone! Windows is constantly, sometimes majorly, updated off the back of reports sent to MS. I'd call that Beta testing, which would indicate, to me at least, the product isnt ready for release to paying customers. MS have been like that since... Windows started!!

Come the revolution, Linux will rule.

I suppose you think linux doesn't have major upgrades

It does, however about 95% less than Windows...

Kwackerz wrote:

Gio wrote:

Kwackerz wrote:Yeah, but in all honesty it should be free, for everyone! Windows is constantly, sometimes majorly, updated off the back of reports sent to MS. I'd call that Beta testing, which would indicate, to me at least, the product isnt ready for release to paying customers. MS have been like that since... Windows started!!

Come the revolution, Linux will rule.

I suppose you think linux doesn't have major upgrades

It does, however about 95% less than Windows...

And its getting hacked

Kwackerz wrote:

Gio wrote:

Kwackerz wrote:Yeah, but in all honesty it should be free, for everyone! Windows is constantly, sometimes majorly, updated off the back of reports sent to MS. I'd call that Beta testing, which would indicate, to me at least, the product isnt ready for release to paying customers. MS have been like that since... Windows started!!

Come the revolution, Linux will rule.

I suppose you think linux doesn't have major upgrades

It does, however about 95% less than Windows...

But Linux isnt backward compatible in the same way - all the extras you have had to compile you have mainly to do all over again in my experience. Windows definitely is less hassle.

Stupid question that I ought to, probably do know the answer to, however it escapes me at the mo..

How do you tell if you've got windows Xp x64?

In fact, doesnt matter. Just tried to download a copy of Inspirat, however the download is corrupted.. softpedia's d/load links only point to two locations, one isnt there, the other corrupted. ah well!

Scratch my last post. found the 'proper' download location. Yeah, not too shabby this Inspirat thing..not too shabby at all!

cheers for the link Aladinsaneuk just installed and it ain't to bad :)

I wonder what next weekends reply will be