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Gav - 25/1/07 at 11:33 PM

Just installed vista for the first time and once i managed to get some drivers for the GPU (mobile 7900 GS) all i can say is WOW!

Browser - 26/1/07 at 07:48 AM

For the tech-illiterates amongst us, what is Vista please?

David Jenkins - 26/1/07 at 07:55 AM

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Originally posted by Browser
For the tech-illiterates amongst us, what is Vista please?


There speaks a man with the same philosophy as me - i.e. "Sod Microsoft!"

(It's MS's replacement for Win 2000/XP/whatever.)

britishtrident - 26/1/07 at 08:12 AM

Xp is Windows 3.1 but with 100,000 more ways to get a blue screen of death.

RazMan - 26/1/07 at 09:46 AM

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Originally posted by britishtrident
Xp is Windows 3.1 but with 100,000 more ways to get a blue screen of death.


But Vista is a different animal completely. I've been running it since the beta days and this is the first operating system that I have considered buying ..... maybe

scottc - 26/1/07 at 01:14 PM

I too have been using it since the original beta and can't really see a reason to upgrade.....IMHO.


[Edit]: given other responses maybe I missed something.

Can anyone tell me what it is they thought was 'better' about it?

The only thing that would have really swayed me was WINFS, which was dropped a long time ago.


[Edited on 26/1/07 by scottc]

MikeRJ - 26/1/07 at 10:51 PM

Vista has unreasonable hardware requirements, mainly due to the amount of digital copyright protection that is built in.

XP does everything I need it to for the foreseeable future, I certainly won't be jumping on the bandwagon.

Gav - 27/1/07 at 09:31 AM

without going into the windows vs other OS the whole BSOD thing is rubbish, ive seen lockups on a whole load of other OS's, the common problem being baddly written device drivers, nowt to do with how the OS is written.

Ive just got round to installing vista from my MS action pack, while XP can do everything i want Vista jsut does it with more style and slickness. the whole DRM thing is also a non issue as i wont be using protected media in the first place!
Remember its the hardware/media vendors that have to implement the DRM stuff, the OS is just a host to facillitate that, so dont use DRM protected media and you'll have no problems!

RazMan - 28/1/07 at 10:01 AM

Check here more some info on Vista

Gav - 28/1/07 at 02:50 PM

Now ive had a couple of days more use out of vista im really loving it, little things like when you want to rename a file only the filename is highlighted not the .extention so you can just press delete without having to type the extension again as well.
Theirs loads of little things like that, that just make it so much nice to use! and as an avid linux fan i thought i would never say this but i am quite impressed!.

Luke Allanson - 31/1/07 at 10:11 PM

Some might say Vista is almost as good as Mac os X...
I spose we can live in hope that eventually one of the features microsoft install wont be stolen from a competitor.

britishtrident - 31/1/07 at 10:24 PM

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Originally posted by Luke Allanson
Some might say Vista is almost as good as Mac os X...
I spose we can live in hope that eventually one of the features microsoft install wont be stolen from a competitor.


And others might point out the current MAC OS is rebranded Linux under the hood.

RazMan - 31/1/07 at 11:01 PM

Hey, it's all the same binary code isn't it?