Good day, the laptop I have been given at my new job has Windows Vista on. I wanted to add on Visual Studio and Dreamweaver CS4. Dreamweaver, no problem. Visual Studio 2012 says that it needs more updates on the OS. I have so far put on the first two service packs and it is putting on some more updates, is this pointless. I have tried Googling but can only find that VS 2008 will work on Vista and no further details.
Should I ask for Windows 7 or 8 instead? Also this is 32 bit to limited to 3Gb, so I am thinking 64Bit and 4Gb or more. My old PC was Win 7 and 8Gb (overkill for most things but I also did some images).