Vista an upgrade or new install???

etrin

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I have had 3 people tell me that Vista is nothing more than XP SP5 LOL
you can upgrade with a patch to vista from XP is this true?

When XP came out we had tons of post about getting XP and a lava lamp for $49

do you think there will be anything like this for Vista release?


 

Markbnj

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Those people are being pretty silly, imo. Vista is not a patch to XP. Large chunks of it have been reengineered. There is a ton of information out there from various tech writers. I installed it last night on a separate partition and have been really impressed so far.

Whether you will be able to get it bundled with a lava lamp I can't say.
 

etrin

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thanks Markbnj, these people still swear that vista is a patch upgrade for xp.. I don't know why.

Forget the lava lamp but they were selling XP pro for $49 not too sure who was considered
for the sales.


 

JasonCoder

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These are probably the people who are talking about the WPF bits that you can download and run on XP. I don't know if you can get aero for xp. Regardless, as Markbnj mentioned there are lots of things that were totally reengineered. Things that go far beyond the UI.