NT Opinions on VISTA operating system

[Art]

My wife's HP may need to be replaced. She has been using xp home edition, but apparantely it is no longer available. Has anyone had experience with VISTA? I use xp professional on my PC and we have them on a wired router using cable modem for internet. Any probem with VISTA on her machine & XP on mine? I just hate having to change computers & I am concerned with any new operating system until it has been around for awhile. Thanks for you input.

[lsowers]

Don't know if you can still get a pc with XP installed. I have a laptop with Vista and a desktop with XP. They share a wireless internet connection via a router and I can share files between the two. I have not had any problems. The set up was a little bit of a pain since the OS were different, but once set up there have been no issues.

[chadw]

Don't know if you can still get a pc with XP installed. I have a laptop with Vista and a desktop with XP. They share a wireless internet connection via a router and I can share files between the two. I have not had any problems. The set up was a little bit of a pain since the OS were different, but once set up there have been no issues.

I also have a laptop with Vista and a laptop with XP. They also share the same things as the previous poster and they also connect to a wireless print server fine as well.

I think with Dell you can still get some business systems with XP Pro on them. You have to "buy" a higher end version of Vista and choose the downgrade to XP.

[Catherine]

My wife's HP may need to be replaced. She has been using xp home edition, but apparantely it is no longer available. Has anyone had experience with VISTA? I use xp professional on my PC and we have them on a wired router using cable modem for internet. Any probem with VISTA on her machine & XP on mine? I just hate having to change computers & I am concerned with any new operating system until it has been around for awhile. Thanks for you input.

One of our family friends is an IT specialist; his recommendation is to avoid VISTA at all costs. Especially if you have older peripherals (printers, scanners, etc), as there are still compatibility problems with drivers for those devices and VISTA.

It is still possible to get XP Pro computers. You have to look (and sometimes ask specifically), but they are available. Anyone who builds computers (as some folks here and on other groups have done) can certainly install XP Pro.

Catherine