Moving to Vista

I'm now happily working and blogging on my new home computer running Windows Vista. But how did this happen you may ask?

Well, I had used Vista before, during Beta 2 and RC1 to be exact. As a developer I had to test my software to see how it behaved on this new operating system. And it behaved pretty much as desired. So that was good.

When Vista was officially released, I didn't make the jump immediately. I heard a lot of complaints about incompatability, and I had a lot of software on my XP machine that I did not want to lose. So I waited.

Last week however, my home computer's motherboard died. So I went to buy a new one. And at the shop there was an offer to buy Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic on discount. So I bought it.

Then I bought a hard disk to get a dual operating system choice. I think I still would need XP sometimes. Anyway, Windows Vista actually installed better with the new motherboard than XP did. All the drivers except for the LAN adapter installed automatically. With Windows XP I had to install all the drivers, and there were above 100 updates downloaded from Microsoft's website to bring the system up to date.

Now I have been using Vista for 4 days, and I can say that I am quite happy with it. All the work I do at home (software, web development and blogging) is working wonders. The only fault I have so far is that the CD player is not working with Audio CDs, and with XP it's fine. I still have to check and find what is happening, for now I have to work in silence...