Windows Vista arrives in US stores tomorrow

Microsoft is releas­ing Win­dows Vista, the lat­est ver­sion of its desk­top oper­at­ing sys­tem, to US retail­ers tomor­row, Jan­u­ary 30.

The oper­at­ing sys­tem is avail­able at mid­night tonight at local Com­pUSA stores. Cus­tomers can also pur­chase and down­load the software.

Rob Pego­raro of the Wash­ing­ton Post noted in his review that Vista looks much bet­ter than pre­vi­ous Win­dows soft­ware, but requires a thor­oughly mod­ern per­sonal com­puter. For some users, it’s less expen­sive to buy a Vista-ready com­puter than to upgrade their RAM, graph­ics card and hard drive.

I don’t rec­om­mend installing Win­dows Vista until Ser­vice Pack 1 is avail­able. Com­pa­nies should delay their upgrade until their busi­ness and enter­prise soft­ware ven­dors pro­vide Win­dows Vista sup­port. Even then, the aver­age user doesn’t need the extra features.

See this link for more infor­ma­tion: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/29/AR2007012900615.html

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