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Re: Vista - Why so many flavors?

I bought a Dell Laptop in mid-May. The reasoning was because I was so impressed with the laptops my work purchased for their size, weight, feel, and speed that I went to Dell's website and configured one with a better processor/memory/etc for home use. (Core2 Duo T7300 + 2GB RAM) I also got Vista Premium since there was a nice promotion on the website at the time.

The only thing that's a pain in the butt is the version of Solidworks that Battlefield HS uses doesn't work on Vista, so if I want to CAD I have to tote my work and home laptop around since the work laptop has limited (firewalled, proxied, etc) internet access. But once that's settled most everything's fine:

**The internet still runs fine with Firefox.
**The start->type program name->it runs is pretty cool; it keeps you from searching through endless start menu folders
**Eclipse still runs fine
**Matlab R14 still runs fine
**CORBA ORBs setup via Java still run fine for both Server and Client (Premium required for advanced user and port services & settings)
**Office 2007 is TONS better than office 2003, it's much more intuitive and Excel has some really neat (albeit OOXML that's under contraversy atm) new features for formatting and units and 3D surfaces (which makes what I was doing in Matlab semi-obsolete but easier for others to follow)

Some games don't work (Descent II port & Simcity 4) but I also have a desktop with WinXP for those.

My take on Vista: it will be just as good as any other MS OS in a year or two, just like every other MS OS that came before it. I chose to get it now so that I'm not paying for XP now + and upgrade in a year. I can deal with the shortcomings for now, as can most people.
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