Some of you are probably celebrating while others might be hiding under a rock, hoping that it will all go away.

Both Best Buy and Circuit City devoted pages in their Sunday circulars this week on the release. Best Buy touting that they had over “60,000 trained specialists” ensuring that they would “match you up with a PC you’ll love.”

Apple decided to counter the release with one of their Mac vs. PC ads. Humorous as usual, it shows a nervous PC about to undergo surgery to prepare for the Windows Vista™ upgrade. A not so subtle jab at what the PC owners of the past have gone through as they updated their OS.

The above two spectrums seem to be equally matched by what the everyday user is thinking. On one hand, those who can’t wait and are updating as soon as possible and on the other those who could care less and happy to keep working on whatever is installed on their machine, as long as it works.

If you fall somewhere in between or need assistance trying to figure out what if anything you need to do, let me suggest looking at PC Mag’s Windows Vista™ - What you need to know site. I recently spent a good two hours reading up on the different stories offered up. I pretty much left the site overwhelmed with information and learning more than I could have possible hoped (and maybe wanted) to.

And much like everything else, the articles look at the release in either exuberance or who cares attitude. There is the article on Windows Vista™ Tips and Tricks which really gets into the cool stuff but you also have the column on the most annoying features of Windows Vista™.

Even as you get pulled from one side to the other, the articles do serve the intended purpose in helping you make an informed decision on whether to upgrade or to wait. I would definitely advise looking at the Look Before You Leap review and the Insiders Guide to Windows Vista™. The first gives a good summary while the latter gives a more detailed look at Vista and its many new improvements.

My one addition to all of the thoughts presented in the different articles - check with all of your software vendors to ensure that their software will support the new OS. Most vendors will put the new OS through extensive testing, Blackbaud included, making sure that the “new features” won’t break how their software works

Myself, I fall in the middle. I see a lot of cool things that Vista will offer but I’ll wait. Some of the “features” can already be downloaded for XP, while others don’t seem to have the “wow” factor that would make me to want to rush out and put it on my machine.

Then again, maybe I’m scared for my PC, just like on the ad.