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Windows Vista: worth the money?
Spike:
--- Quote from: est on 09 Jan 2007, 03:03 ---I don't understand the doomsayers on this. Heather was running Vista a while back and apart from a few driver/app incompatibilities as Mike says, it worked just fine. You can make it look and behave remarkably like Windows XP or even 2k with just a little tweaking. I'm gonna do my usual for OSes, which is wait about 6mths from release, download & install it & turn off any "features" I don't like. I should have the money to upgrade my hardware by then, so maybe I'll do it all as one big "OMG NEW PC" ritual this year.
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Remember, beta versions do not necessarily reflect the finished product. Let's take a look at Battlefield 2, the demo (incomplete) ran wonderfully while the finished product was buggy as all hell.
Even I'm a bit conflicted about it, I don't think any company could be so stupid, but that's followed by, " Wait, yes they can."
Grawsith:
This guy is absolutely right.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196800670&pgno=1&queryText=
Yes, it beats XP, but that's all it beats.
nihilist:
--- Quote from: Spike on 09 Jan 2007, 04:48 ---Remember, beta versions do not necessarily reflect the finished product.
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It isn't beta; I'm running the final version no problem. (I set it up on another computer last night.)
8ilbo:
--- Quote from: Grawsith on 09 Jan 2007, 16:42 ---This guy is absolutely right.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196800670&pgno=1&queryText=
Yes, it beats XP, but that's all it beats.
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Although I hate to use sarcasm, I feel in this case is justified...
"My what an unopinionated article"
To be fair it is supposed to be an opinion article, but once again people have confused UI with OS....
The penultimate paragraph sums it up really -
--- Quote ---However, is it significantly, or even slightly better than Mac OS X? Maybe in a couple of low-level ways, like the randomizing memory address usage function, or being able to use USB memory sticks as additional RAM, but at the human level? Not even close.
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He indicates that he has badly missed the point of vista in his article.
Spike:
@Mike: Then it seems I'm letting my distrust of big businesses get the better of me. I shall still wait and see.
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