>>>Hi all,
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>>>I am still running on Windows XP for my development machine. I have dreaded upgrading since I use so many third party products and such. Has anyone had troubles with upgrading to from Windows XP to Vista with existing installs of development software?
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>>>What are the gotchas?
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>>>What about Vista x86 versus Vista x64?
>>>Tim
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>>You might want to go outside, pour gasoline on your arm, and light it instead. It will be more enjoyable.
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>>I've been running Vista since the first day it was RTM, and I have REALLY REALLY tried to like it.
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>>I finally gave up. I really despise it. It makes so many thing a pain in the a$$ that it isn't worth it at all (and we get it free).
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>Why would you give anyone that advice based on your experience? I have been running Vista on 3 machines and my laptop since it RTM'd. I love it, you couldn't pay me to go back to XP. I use both the 32 bit and 64 bit editions.

Because UAC fights me constantly. If I log in as the administrator on my machine, I'M THE ADMINISTRATOR!! If I want to do something on the machine, I do NOT want to have to confirm multiple times that I want to do something.