Is Microsoft Vista OS & Office 2007 64edition worth it?

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Hi Guys,

This is my first thread but I have this burning urge to get a full un-bias opinion on Microsoft’s new OS and their Office upgrade. From what I can tell, the price is going to set me about say R5, 000 so wanted to get some insight on if it really worth the price of buying a new computer because with R5, 000 you could easily do this.

I also have a couple of questions as well which I can't seem to find a definitive answer too. (Even after reading many articles and sites/reviews on the software).

I currently have an AMD 4000+ 64 system, 6 hard drives, Radeon 300 PCI-E 128MB, 2GB Ram, MSI enforce 4 main board. I am running XP pro SP2.

I built this machine way before any feasible version of the windows ‘Longhorn’ beta was available but even when it became available I have not tried it.

I have a 64bit system and only running 32bit software as the other 32bit is redundant in XP as far as I am aware. Now with the official launch of Microsoft’s new OS ‘Vista 32/64’ I want to know if it is worth me upgrading or not? I don’t see the point of having a 64bit system if I only ever run 32bit applications and no official security software for 64bit is available although I think Symantec have a corporate edition that is 64bit capable.

Would my system be able to run Vista Perfectly or not over XP pro or should I stick to XP Pro?

Anyone with some useful insight is welcome to comment as from what I have experienced so far, people either hate MS or they are pro them with out actually giving much technical insight or unbiased reasoning or insight.
 
office 2007 is worth it right now... :)

I agree with SS. Wait for SP 1 before getting Vista.
 
Thanks, I might be building a new machine in the near future anyway, so maybe by then SP1 will be available.
 
antowan said:
office 2007 is worth it right now... :)
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I think the real question here is whether to go for the 64-bit versions. Check and double-check whether there are 64-bit drivers available for all your hardware; printer, scanner, digital camera, mobile phone, etc, etc.
 
ginggs said:
I think the real question here is whether to go for the 64-bit versions. Check and double-check whether there are 64-bit drivers available for all your hardware; printer, scanner, digital camera, mobile phone, etc, etc.
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And Antivirus, firewall etc
 
killadoob said:
why is the new office better than the last office?
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1 048 576 lines in Excel instead of the pathetic 65 536 previously, so you can actually use one workbook instead of 10 on large record sets. Functions in Excel are now multithreaded so you can basically cut calculation time in half on a dual core.

.NET programmability for Office automation is a lot better in 2007 as well.
 
killadoob said:
not worth it

why is the new office better than the last office?
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Well, if you don't have any version of Office laying around and the toss is between 2003 or 2007 I'd go with 2007. It is a little less cluttered, has tons of online capabilities and looks great. :)

That is what I meant. If you have a legal copy of 2003 it would be worth noting that it is still damn good and adoption of 2007 by corporates is a little slow by the look of things. This doesn't mean it will not be the next standard. Odds are that it will.

If you need fresh copy, get 2007! If you have 2003, then why spend more?
 
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