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I’ve played around with the previous versions of the Vista beta and RC series. I’ve played with build 5270 (December last year), build 5384 (first public release pre-RC1), RC1(build 5600), RC2(build 5744). Vista has gotten better since I first got to look at build 5270 back in December. RC2 is very solid, all my drivers work (the MIDI synthesizer isn’t the best though :P).

I can also say that I am very impressed with the Aero UI (the glass, 3D fliper, and window animations). Windows Vista has been in development a long time, since before XP shipped in October 2001. You can read more about the “Road to Gold” at the WinSupersite. At this point in time I am happy with XP and feel that it is pretty secure after two service packs. This is the exact reason as to why I will be holding off upgrading to Vista. That being that I don’t want an OS that will be full of security holes. Now I am not saying that it will be plagued by holes as XP was. What I am really saying is that I just want to give Vista some time to sit in the wild with people trying to attack it.

If there are not many significant security holes by 6 months after the time Vista has been released I will gladly upgrade to it. I’ll probably go for Vista Home Premium. You can see more on the versions here.

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PS: As a final note on Windows Weekly 4, they stated that Longhorn (codename for Vista) was named after a bar You can download the clip here.