Re: The Future might be Flex 2

> the only hardware addition was a $50 ATI 9550 clone video
> card stuck in a AGP-4x slot.

This a quite expensive addition actually. The business cost of such an addition would be way above the $50 (hardware insertion costs, driver upgrade and associated validation costs, warranty issues...).
Also this won't do any good to RDP clients (that run server-side, and display on cheapo terminals client-side).

> It dual boots with XP-SP2 and thus I get a firsthand comparison that tells
me that Vista has at least if not slightly better speed and user experience and this is with Aero Glass turned on.

According to the various reviews out there, Vista is systematically slower than XP on the same machine, and this has been our observation too. So your case sounds like an isolated one, maybe you're comparing a brand new install to an old one? Or you forgot to update the XP drivers?

Anyway WPF and Vista are somewhat different issues: there is just no way to make Vista a requirement nowadays, or in the next few years, unless you plan to sell not just software but hardware too. There are still a whole lot of Win2k machines out there, and many large corporations have barely finished upgrading to XP on the client-sides.
Next hardware upgrades around here will be almost exclusively servers as far as we can tell, serving HTTP and RDP/TSE.
Installing WPF could be made a requirements (though ot that easily), assuming it would run trouble free and with good performance, and that hasn't been our observation so far.

> In addition to my usual preference of apps, Office 2007 is installed and
runs fine however it's new ribbon UI takes some getting used to.

I've been having it since the beta 2, but I'm afraid the ribbon still hasn't sunk in here either, as a matter of fact, I'm still reverting to Office 2k3 everytime I have to do anything that isn't notepad-level...

The more I use Vista the more I like it even on this minimal hardware machine and will soon move it to a new machine especially configured for Vista once I figure out exactly what hardware I want.

I personnally haven't been converted to Vista yet.... Once the novelty wore off, I was happy to return to XP64, which just feels a lot more comfortable (especially with multiple applications running). If I could run the Vista UI under XP64, but with the "old" explorer.exe, config panel, etc. I would be one happy puppy.
I don't exactly have an entry level machine (dual core, 2GB, etc.), but I also have high requirements as to what "responsive" means :)

Eric
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