VistaJuice

This post will be one of the longer ones, since I kind of do not have any other at the moment, and also I'll use it to introduce the site and what I am trying to accomplish.

Even though Vista is officially coming out today, I bet not everyone is as enthusiastic about it as I am. I bet there will be people hurling out to get it (heck, I did it on the 24th - Microcenter had the OEM version there), but for some there will still be questions:

1) should you get it (answer: yes)
2) how long should you wait?

I've been using Vista since it was known as Longhorn and while it was still in Alpha. Since the first moment I laid my eyes on it - I really liked it and wanted to see the final version. It's been long 5 years of development for Microsoft, but since they are a company which loves Beta Testers (over 5 million people downloaded the beta version), people already kind of know what they will be getting.

We've all seen the beautiful Vista Aero UI and how it looks like, but since I've been using Vista for some time now I created this site in order to bring you the big picture; the juice, the froot of the loom (TM by that underwear company, sorry) or what ever you might call it.

I hear people say "Vista is the way XP shouldve been long time ago" - and I have to agree with that. It really is a nice OS; but don't worry - even though I love it so much, I am not going to say there are no flaws and mistakes. We will come to those soon enough, but just so you know - this is not going to be a web site where Vista will be worshiped in a biased way. I love Apple and Mac OS X as well, I use Linux daily on all of my servers but I wont you to experience all that Vista has to offer as well - so that you too can know why you (will) feel great when you come back home and a Vista boots up on your computer.

Ok, not to make this post too long, there are a lot more other things to talk about, some webcasts to share, first Windows Updates to introduce and more audience to amuse ... (lol) I was just on a row, forgive me ;)

Let me just answer to those questions above:
1) should you get it: definitely yes.
2) should you wait? - this depends... Vista comes with 1.5 million drivers out of the box, so the chances of your peripherals not being recognized are pretty small. With this in mind, I'd say you should definitely give it a try.

If you have some special software on your laptop - like mine for example comes with Sony Vaio's proprietary stuff - you have two options: Installing the OS anyways and wait for the software updates from Sony or other manufacturer to arrive (like I did), or wait for the software first and then go on with the install...

The choice is yours ... In one of our next posts I'll explain the best way in my opinion to install Vista on your computer in couple of different scenarios.

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After 75 posts, over 10,000 unique visitors and about 1 month of being on-line, I think it is finally time to write a real post about Vista Juice :)

As you may or may not know - we're here to "squeeze out the best from Windows Vista Experience" by bringing you all of the important news, tips, tricks, workarounds and such which will make your Vista experience a lot better one!

The site is here to provide you an unbiased view to the new Vista world by showing you the bad tings too - not just all good ones.

To use VistaJuice is quite easy - on the left side you have all of our sections, on the right side all of the tags as well as a really good integrated search - so there is no way for you not to find something I write about.

A little bit about me: My name is Petar Smilajkov, mostly known as Peconi (read petsoni). I am a 25 year old self employed (php) Web Developer, and owner/founder of PeconiHosting.com... On the daily basis I use all of the operating systems around - Linux for administering my company/client's servers, OSX for fun (though I do not own a Mac), and Vista - the OS that just makes me happier than any other since long time ago (while I was impressed with the first Alpha's that came out :)

So, not to clutter the space more - there you go ...

If you need to contact me for any reason - feel free to write to me at peconi AT peconi.com or vistajuice AT gmail.com.

Also, if you happen to have ANY questions about VISTA, something you can't do, or something you found - please email me or comment to this post - and I'll help you out! I need to know what you need in order to provide you all with better tips, tricks and explanations on how things should be done ;)

Thanks for reading this far :) and for a great support during our first month!

Cheers,

Petar