I’m starting to take interest in Vista now. With integrated media center and tablet capabilities it will sit far above any other OS for touch-enabled devices. In fact, I don’t think there there is no other OS that can support the touchscreen, speech recognition (is it really correct? Vista supports speech recognition out of the box?) and has media center capabilities built in.
Pricing for an upgrade, however, isn’t going to come cheap.
$160 is what it will cost to upgrade a ultra mobile PC from XP tablet edition to Vista Home Premium.
In fact, if I upgrade all the PC’s that are in use within our family, we’re talking over $1000. That makes Linux very attractive indeed for my non-touchscreen devices. I’m using Suse 10.1 with Xgl 3D windows and its superb. And Free. And multi-user.
Windows pricing info here.
Steve / Chippy
tags: umpc, vista
