- Posted by Ian Suttle on October 2, 2007
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I'm a bit late to the game, but I finally took the dive and upgraded my work PC to Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit. Well, to be technical about it, the "Upgrade" inploded and I ended up doing a full install.
The install was easy but took for.e.v.e.r. - typical of large MS apps these days.
All of my hardware was compatible except for two insignificant pieces - my sound card and my secondary video card leaving me at 1 / 3 monitors (card has a DVI splitter so it supported two monitors). Vista didn't even know the brand of my sound card (neither do I). What was quite impressive however, is a couple of days after my install Vista told me it had found a solution to my sound card issue and recommended a new driver to resolve the conflict; problem solved. Awesome. No such luck with Nvidia's unresolvable "error 43" on my video card. I ended up having to swap it out.
As for software I've installed Firefox, Office 2007, VS.Net 2008, SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition, and a few other apps without any conflict.
The UI is beautiful thanks in large to a number of new animations and the glass effect.
Overall my experience has been far more pleasant than most have expressed so far.