what's the deal with Vista these days?

[Razzee]

After installing a new operating system, you install new drivers that are designed to be used on that OS, so there is no way the drivers would have been broken because of installing XP

there are some rare cases where there aren't drivers for xp. check first especially with laptops. had some cases of that in the past.

 

[Greatdeceiver]

How is it coming along? I just might be getting a new computer in a month or so, and all the ones I'm checking out all ship with Vista. Sure one could install XP on it, (don't know where I'd find one of those though) but is Vista really as bad as the word was back when it was launched? Surely by now just about all developers have gotten proper Vista compability with all their products, right?

Anyone running it in their studios atm?

A piece of advice: do not buy a pc with vista if you plan on setting xp up on it. Most such systems are "optimized" for vista meaning that you might have a hard time with drivers for xp, even if they are available. It might be an innocent issue, like a webcam not working on xp (as on my friends laptop) but 50% of my computer doesnt work on xp.. sadly. So I use vista. Its actually not that bad when you get used to it a bit.