about six months along...

[ironymaiden]

i'm curious. feel free to expound in comments.

[Poll #985415]

Comments

[spazzychic.livejournal.com]

Both work and home are still using XP.

[mrdorbin.livejournal.com]

Sooner or later I will at work, but only one of my machines is really up to spec for it, and our build system hasn't been upgraded to use it properly yet, so eventually, but not now.

[ironymaiden]

i'm feeling a bit confounded by the build system issue. wow.

[mrdorbin.livejournal.com]

It's not really as weird as all that; the built software runs fine on Vista and with all the service packs we've been cranking out since ship, they're not wanting to destabilize anything until the actual new version, which we've only had about a month of regular builds on so far. The really weird thing is that we've had a year's worth of work between shipping v12 and starting v14 that has nothing to do with either of them, really.

[buhrger]

a large part of the reason i wanted to make sure Teh New Box™ was purchased by the time it was was in order to keep that nasty virus disguised as an OS off of it. since going dual-boot (ubuntu/XP), i've used XP precisely once, and haven't looked back.

[textualdeviance.livejournal.com]

I'm still running XP on my laptop and the machine at the bachelor pad, but I have the whole new shebang at home and I adore it. My only complaint is that they changed the file structure a bit for documents and pictures and such, thus making setting up FolderShare on the thing a little tricky, but other than that, I'm in love.

And I'm not just saying that because The Evil Empire funds my extravagant lifestyle.

[textualdeviance.livejournal.com]

Oh, and despite some aches and pains adapting to the ribbon in Office, I love that, too. I've been gleefully playing with all the new shit Excel has. It's made doing my advanced reporting project 300% easier.

[craftyasparagus.livejournal.com]

...and by "I'll get it with my next computer" I mean "I'm waiting until there are at least two Service Packs before I even consider running it." (Bugs, etc.)

[caraeileen.livejournal.com]

I choose none of the above. I know what Vista is, but I don't use it and none of the computers I use have it so I don't know if I'm missing out on anything.

[refractednotion.livejournal.com]

Option j:

I use XP and see no reason to "upgrade."

[sinthrex.livejournal.com]

Same here. Given the gaming performance hit even though I have a free upgrade sitting at home, there's really no point until something I deperately desire to play comes out that requires DX10.

Shadowrun could do it. From what I have seen, I doubt it though. Probably not pre-SP1, that's for sure.

[tcinseattle.livejournal.com]

I helped make it. I hate it more than you have any right to. I still use it though.

Sidebar is nicer than Konfabulator (oops, I mean Yahoo widgets) which has always been better than Apple's attempt at widgets.

All of the little subtle things that got a little easier in XP are a little easier in Vista.(like contextual action suggestions in folders, printer and network setup, file sharing, remote desktop, game management)
Per-app volume control is awesome.
The 'clipper' is awesome. (I do graphics, screenshots are important)
The new start menu layout is MUCH better than XP. No more stacking menus that disintegrate when your mouse goes outside the lines.
The speech recognition is nice, but needs a little bake time. It uses too much CPU and they fucked up on integration. Dragon's decade-old product is better (no surprise there).
Some of the UI layout workovers can only be described as... fucking random. It's like they took a blender to the screen and then squared things away wherever they ended up.
IE7 sucks, but hardly anyone cool uses it, so it doesn't matter. Sadly firefox 2 fucked up tab sizes, so I use IE7.

The key reason I don't use it at home: I'm a demoscener. Demos, especially 64k and 4k intros, use VERY OS-specific "features". I'll be at least dual-booting XP for several years.

[weahawk.livejournal.com]

Where is the option for "I'm a gamer and Vista doesn't like my games of choice, so I'm sticking with XP?"

[steve98052.livejournal.com]

I'm torn between "It's really pretty and has a lot of really cool features that make my life easier" and "The security is so freaking picky that the only way I can get anything done is to turn off every security feature I can find, and hope nothing bad happens as a result, and even so my home network still doesn't work entirely right."

I'm really annoyed that ZoneAlarm doesn't work with it yet. I tried the Vista ZoneAlarm beta, and it was so fubar that I removed it as I could (using Vista's really spiffy roll-back feature). So my only security is encrypted Wi-Fi for now.

To be specific on the home networking problem, the XP and Vista desktops talk to each other, and the Vista desktop and laptop talk to each other, but the Vista laptop and XP desktop don't communicate except through intermediaries (the Vista desktop, a USB memory chip, or Google mail, depending on the situation). I had that problem for a while with an all-XP home network (different computers, except the remaining XP desktop), but I eventually solved it, by fortunate accident more or less.

Finally, Internet Exploder 7 leaks memory like crazy, or at least it acts likes that's the problem. (It crashes after a day or so on both the 1 GB XP desktop and the 1 GB Vista laptop, but takes a week or two to crash on the 2 GB Vista desktop. That certainly sounds like a memory leak to me.) But the features are cool, so I make a point of shutting it down and restarting it every day or so, and wish for it to improve.

[matt-ruff.livejournal.com]

There should be a ticky for "I'll probably get it eventually because I want to play Halo 2 with a mouse and keyboard interface."