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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.aspx

Nice looking site and nice loking new features

let the debate begin

huh... it feels slightly macish... yet it is PC all the way.

good for them?

sexier much

Site doesn't work real well when browsing with Safari

looking forward to upgrading, hope it'll run well on my work laptop.

Edit: they are very multicultural with their model's which is nice to see, heh

(Edited by Maruman on 01-06-2006 04:05)

Had a beta version, memory hog. Runs like shit. You'll need a decent vid card for all the transparencies and other eye candy crap. My laptop is a 2.4Ghz Celeron, 1GB RAM, and 128MB intel video, not the greatest, but very fast with XP, and it couldn't even handle the transparencies well.

If the final version isn't optimized a bit, I for one will be using XP for a couple more years and then switching to Linux. I'll choose better productivity and performance over a nice shiny UI any day.

To be honest, the best part was that they reskinned Minesweeper.

BTW, IE7 is crap too.

Ram

sounds like what everyone was saying about XP right before it came out. Took me all of 1 week to like it better much than 2k (once I figured out how to get around and/or accept all the damn wizards )

but yes, Linux is getting mature enough for idiots like myself to start looking at it as an alternative, still has a way to go on the idiot proofing side of gui stuffs but I ran an ubuntu live cd for a while and was impressed how far things had come since I last fiddled with Red Hat and Madrake several years ago. Hell it recognized a myriad of devices and drives I had hooked up right off the bat, scanners, card readers, usb synch cradle etc etc, that was very impressive.

I've got a friend that's been running Vista for a while now and having no complaints, he's a real darksider tho

Oh yeah, I remember the memory holes, or rather canyons, in the XP betas, that's why I am giving MS the benefit of the doubt on Vista at this point. They still have not made all the css updates to IE7 either, but it still sucks beacause the interface is wacked. Who the hell puts the file menu bar below the tabs, the controls, and the url box? Why break away from what has become standard just to make something "different" or whatever their reasoning was? Bah! Maybe I'm just cranky and need to bitch about something.

That and all the security crap, Linux is very tempting at times, if not for the software on Windows I could not live without, I'd definately switch. (Gimp just does not do it for me)

Ram

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That and all the security crap, Linux is very tempting at times, if not for the software on Windows I could not live without, I'd definately switch. (Gimp just does not do it for me)

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That is the only thing holding me back from switching to linux.

WebShaman | The keenest sorrow (and greatest truth) is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles

WebShaman: +1

vista hardware receommendations... I wondered if software was ever going to cathc up to the hardware advancements we've seen over the last severla years, appears they've managed to up the ante considerably

Webshaman: I'm sure you speak for 99% of anyone who's ever considered Linux, it's why Windows is what it is, that and useability for novices, and most of that is probably firmly entrenched in "what folks are used to". There's a lot to overcome if Linux wants to have any hope in the desktop makret, hopefully those^hardware requirements are yet another step back for MS and forward for Linux... in the eyes of geeks anyway.

had a nose round the site whats the eta on the final release anyone?

late 2006

a few videos to pass the time

^^^^^ oh thats naughty

No Sig ?

hehe nice one JK, I'm glad its already late 2006 for me

oops double post

(Edited by Maruman on 01-09-2006 08:30)

I'm getting more and more into the idea of installing Linux, but I like my games too much, I don't even play the latest games, but sometimes I get an urge to play Age of Empires or Warcraft 3 again, can Linux handle this without using Wine?

I read a pretty apt description on Penny Arcade regarding Windows.

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I don't love Windows. I like it, and though many people don't like admitting it Windows succeeds because it does everything most people need. It's like the Phillips head. But I don't love the Phillips head, it just happens to turn a lot of screws.

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That about sums it up for me.