justageek - 1:40 pm on Jul 8, 2007 (gmt 0)

My $0.02.

I've had Vista since it was a beta and it has been just fine. I found anything that did not run on it in the beginning slowly began to work as the 3rd party software providers released updated software. Sure MS had their set of issues but most issues were related to other folks not supporting Vista not the other way around.

Most people forget, or don't realize, that an awful lot of work goes into the MS OS's to get them to work on all the possible combinations of hardware configurations out there. Dell should have sent a team to sit down with the folks at Apple so the Apple folks could tell them 'just like us you only have to support the hardware you produce so make sure it works BEFORE you start selling those systems'. MS enbles companies like Dell to exist so you'd think they would be on top of this from day one.

I wish I had some real world experience with a Dell machine not working so I could talk about it but I haven't experienced it yet. I've not had any problems whatsoever with Dell, not even with the latest 64 bit beta Longhorn server running on several Dell machines. In fact, I have never had easier installs than with Vista and Longhorn. Longhorn takes me about 30 minutes to get fresh install and have the machine in service including all the other software I need.

JAG