Yes, I decided to restore Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005. I love the look and feel of Vista, but there were a few deal-breakers:What you’ll get with Vista Home Premium:
- A more attractive user interface.
- The Sidebar
- The very nice “Welcome Center”
- The Windows Media Center front-end (if it works on yours.)
- Daemon Tools (if you use it. I do.)
- TouchPak, including:
- DialKeys
- Brilliant Black media player skin
- Launcher
- Ink Art
- Various legacy device drivers (my generic scanner works out of the box in XP with no drivers, for example, but Vista will not support it.)
- The ability to play any DRM protected Windows Media file you own. The current Windows Media DRM does not work on Windows Vista at all.
- BlueSoleil
- Speed. You’ll lose lots of speed.
Question:
“Will Windows Vista run on my ultra-mobile PC?”
Answer:
“Yes, but you don’t want it.”
3 comments:
This is one of the reasons I haven't even attempted to put Vista on a UMPC yet.
The touch enhancements might be nice to have but apart from that, I don't see much to attract me.
Thanks for trying it out though ;-)
Steve
Yeah, but the recognition is a lot better. I do not noticed to much difference from the point of view of performance.
I'm planning to install Vista in my Q1 not week. ;)
For what its worth, there is a version of Daemon tools that works fine with Vista. There are also other virtual CD tools that work fine. Also, DRM is working fine on Vista. Not sure what types of problems you had, but I can play my DRM protected music and video without any problems on Vista.
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