Alright, so I\'m at a crossroads here and looking to my fellow XbA members to give me a hand in deciding what to do. I\'ve used Windows Vista for a brief time with a laptop I purchased for school; after finding Vista was incapable of running a lot of the software I needed, I took the laptop back and, with the money, built my own custom PC, which I installed Windows XP Pro on.
My computer has been running fine, but I\'ve often toyed with the idea of loading Vista, if for nothing else than to play the Games For Windows Live to earn achievements. I obviously wouldn\'t want to get rid of my Windows XP installation, since that is what I would be using normally.
I\'ve recently come into a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate (read between the lines...), and have loaded it in a Virtual PC on my computer at work to make sure it works. It seemed to load fine and has functionality, so the question I\'m wrestling with is Do I go through all the work necessary to resize my current partition and install Vista to dual-boot...or just hold off until I really have to, and until I can get a \"better\" copy?
A lot of my clients are getting new computers with Vista, and I haven\'t had enough experience with it to realize everything there is. I can still make my way around it and eventually find what I am looking for, but it is like going from Windows 98 to Windows XP: Everything is there, but has a completely differnet way of getting to it. So what do you guys think? Is it worth the time to try this? I would obviously back up my system before attempting this, but is it really worth the aggrivation should something happen to my Win XP install during either resizing or installation?
My computer has been running fine, but I\'ve often toyed with the idea of loading Vista, if for nothing else than to play the Games For Windows Live to earn achievements. I obviously wouldn\'t want to get rid of my Windows XP installation, since that is what I would be using normally.
I\'ve recently come into a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate (read between the lines...), and have loaded it in a Virtual PC on my computer at work to make sure it works. It seemed to load fine and has functionality, so the question I\'m wrestling with is Do I go through all the work necessary to resize my current partition and install Vista to dual-boot...or just hold off until I really have to, and until I can get a \"better\" copy?
A lot of my clients are getting new computers with Vista, and I haven\'t had enough experience with it to realize everything there is. I can still make my way around it and eventually find what I am looking for, but it is like going from Windows 98 to Windows XP: Everything is there, but has a completely differnet way of getting to it. So what do you guys think? Is it worth the time to try this? I would obviously back up my system before attempting this, but is it really worth the aggrivation should something happen to my Win XP install during either resizing or installation?
