I've been a Vista RC1 beta tester for about 6 months. The experience has, on the whole, been rewarding. I'm usually a Mac user and I reckon that Vista closes the gap between the two major OS's to a far more satisfying extent than XP ever managed. You need a grunty machine with plenty of video ram to get the Aero gui to work. It's very nice if you can afford the performance. My general impressions regarding reliability??? ...well...my machine has been up for 6 months without a crash..... so I'm reasonably impressed. I run quite a few Solaris (Unix) and Linux boxes too, and would expect that of them though.
Should you upgrade from XP? Almost definitely.
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