generation skip
I’ve managed, for good or for ill (mostly for good, from what I’ve heard), to almost completely avoid Windows Vista. I’ve stuck with XP on my home machines (the newest of my rigs, the Dell I’ve assigned as my content creation workstation, was technically spec’ed for Vista, but came with an XP Pro “downgrade”). At the radio station, all the computers are XP-based, except for the Mac G5 ProTools workstations in the production studios.
I played around with Vista a bit in the beta stages, but it never impressed me as a “must have” upgrade, so I’ve stayed with XP. Which will probably soon change, at least in part.
I’m writing this entry on the newer of my ThinkPads, the T42p, whose primary function to date has been as my mobile audio production system (recording voice tracks for my animations, etc.). Last week, I installed Windows 7 RC on it, and so far, I like what I’ve been seeing. I’m thinking that, before the RC times out next June, the odds are strongly in favor of my updating to the official release version… at least on this rig. Still need to get around to seeing whether Win7 will play nicely with my USB mic (one of my major reasons for avoiding Vista, though that was probably fixed at some point since the beta release I tried), but on the whole, it seems quite stable and responsive. The reports that Win 7 seems to “just work” even on older, lower-spec hardware, appear to bear out.