#1 -Will you upgrade to Vista?
#1 - When Microsoft Vista comes out, will you be upgrading? Why or why not?
Steve Giunto - Bark at the Moon Graphics Studio - No, I won’t be upgrading to Vista. I was a user of PC’s for 10 years from 88-98. I’ve been PC clean for 8 years and refuse to go back to that self-destructing lifestyle of blue screen & dll headaches. Quit while you can, do yourself a favor and buy a MAC.
John Dowling - iSite Design - I’m not sure, I am using mainly mac’s I guess I will have to wait and see how good it is.
Bob Moreland - H2 Studios -= I’ve never heard of it so, I don’t even know what it is.
Or maybe I’m not enough of a geek to meet roll call.
Chuck Harris - Astrixs - Great idea! Answer to question:
No, nor will I be recommending any of my existing clients to do so any time soon. Reasons for this decision:
1. Hardware Requirements - a number of companies would be required to either upgrade their existing workstations or replace them. Can be rather cost prohibitive, especially for the smaller businesses.
2. Software Limitations - The majority of the applications that we use today, as well as our clients use, will not install or run under the security settings / features that are embedded in this OS build. This is not only cost inhibitive (forcing clients to either upgrade applications or purchase new ones) but can result in actually forcing the company to change the way they do business.
3. Feasibility - Going beyond the previously two mentioned cost inhibitors, there are many hidden costs in an OS upgrade such as:
a. Training
b. Acquisition
c. Implementation
d. Administrative learning curve
e. Support - beyond the OS, identifying which applications will and will not work in Vista
f. The additional security reported to exist in Vista does not out weigh the costs involved
4. Existing systems are beyond adequate enough to handle most of their existing business needs such as:
a. Running standard business applications (Office suites, Intuit applications, email apps, etc).
b. Browsing the internet or other net based medium.
5. Security can be managed more effectively through policies and proper employee education on computer, internet, and email usage as well as a sound auditing procedure to enforce the usage policies.
Eric Smith - Mind Architecture - No, there’s simply no compelling reason to change.
I thought support for 64-bit processors would be a reason to consider upgrading, but from what I’ve read, that’s currently both broken in implementation and not natively supported (i.e. application software must be written to take advantage of it).
I’m also reluctant to be part of the live “security hole beta test” as Microsoft tries to patch the vulnerabilities that are sure to be exploited by new viruses.
Until Vista reaches a verified level of security and stability and/or there’s a piece of software or hardware that I need to use that requires a feature in Vista, I’ll stick with XP.
Stephen Schneider - Mind Architecture - The above answers are pretty much what I expected. 
Personally I’m not going to be upgrading right away. In time I probably will and it may even be before the end of 2007. I just have no reason to at the moment. Everything I need runs in XP and I’m not upgrading any apps that need it.
Since what I mostly do is the web development and programming the main things I need to run are - Browsers, apache, mysql, development apps. Along with this I use Outlook, iTunes, some IM’s etc. All the applications I use run fine on Windows XP and none have a version better than what I have now and I anticipate the next version will run on XP anyway. I am running a 2.0 GHZ AMD, so Vista would be sluggish on it.