i'm just here to read the meter.

As you wish.

Now the all important question: is the release of Win 7 signalling the death knell of Vista?

Has Vista's life expectancy been somewhat shortened by 7's arrival?

I hope not... support-wise, that is.  Despite having Win 7 on mine and the missus' machines, I expect that we'll be keeping Vista on our spare machines into the foreseeable future and hope that MS will continue support for quite some time to come.

In any event, we should be grateful for Vista, and all its mistakes... though none greatly affected me.  If it were not for the new ground that Vista broke, all the new coding and technoligical advances, including the glitches and mistakes, Win 7 would not be the great OS it is today.

Thank you Vista.... and hail Win 7.

Would that be the Peter Meter????

Windows 7 is built upon Vista. It is still Vista at it's heart. Just an upgrade is all.

Talk about projection

I'd like to show you a series of pictures and find out what you see

So anyone got a Vista disk they are willing to part with?

You should ask tazgecko for his coffee coaster...

Sorry, kona.... XP is all I'm willing to part with.  I've built us 2 spare rigs and Vista will go on those instead of XP, which prior to getting Win 7 for our primary machineswas my original plan. 

My disk arrived today but you can't have it.

I have Vista Ultimate here if anyone wants to buy it before it goes on ebay

Ok, here I am, in Windows 7. Vista, as usual, went down kicking and screaming. I couldn't do an upgrade, the damn thing blue screened numerous times. So clean install it was...

I've installed ATi drivers, amazingly it did my crossfire and resolution all by itself.

But I'm confused, what do I do next? Everything seems to be working - is it really that simple?

and now decorated with a nice coffee ring. 

I'm still waiting for something to go wrong. Strange days we now live in Fuzzy ... strange days

I was amazed at my Win7 install. It went really fast and after the first windows update and a reboot everything was working. I didn't need to manually install any drivers or anything it........just worked!

Yeah, it's a bit of a thumb twiddler, really.  You bung in the disc, enter your keyboard and region details, and away it goes... leaving you to twiddle your thumbs for half an hour while it does the business.  Apart from entering the product key and personal details a bit later, there's nothing else to do.  I even noticed that all my proggies installed faster than in XP or Vista on the same machine... so hip-hip hooray for Win 7.

Yep...