*Windows Vista*

[Zed]

watch the video again zed.
the joke is that the video is a mac - while the audio is the vista demo.
i kinda thought someone would notice.

heh.

Haha you're right! Bit naughty innit?

[SuperDave]

And what is the operating system of your choice young fella?

Windows XP Professional. Legit haha.
Got Norton Internet Security as well and never had any problems with virus or security. Then again I'm no expert but all seems quite secure from what I can tell.

[Brian d marge]

Hey thanks Zed for posting this thread , It was good to hear your thoughts

I have JUST installed freespire to test , and am sitting here with your vista thread in front of me and freespire on the laptop ..( was Xfce)

to be honest , the freespire was quicker to install, 20 min max , and come with all codecs ,,commonly used and runs like a scallded cat on 250 meg ram

( except cnr ,,their software down load place )

THE ONLY 2 things why I would install windows is to uses a web site that play brit TV ,,and for some reason only works with hinternet explorer

and Acad ..i am comfortable with Acad ,,and it pays money ...

I will change those 2 reasons when I can

The final nail in the coffin was ..freespire is free...as in free

So that sort of cemented the whole thing for me

Stephen

[Drunken Monkey]

Well the base OS doesn't crash, but just about everything you run on it can generate a "Not responding" message, especially the Windows Explorer for some reason.

Actually this test install BSODs at the very end of shutdown every time.

Looks flashy though. I can have my porn randomly cycling through the gadget bar. Windows Switcher looks funky, kinda entertainment in itself, actually.

Doesn't like some old USB stuff either, especially cheap printers.

Oh, I see I can crash Windows Explorer by right-clicking on my .mp3 files. How ghey is that?

Nope, it's right-clicking anything...time for "shellexview" methinks...

[xwhatsit]

People still use Windows these days? Lol. That must suck, with the antivirus and the anti-adware stuff and all that. I thought people had given up on it years ago.

Macs are nice, I love my iPod and Macs seem to be in the same vein. However, it's all about Ubuntu ^_^. Fancier visual effects than Vista's Aero, but on an integrated Intel i855 laptop graphics card and 512MB of RAM.

Plus, it's open source. I know what's going on in my computer because I can just look at the source code. There's no bullshit Windows Genuine Advantage or Product Activation disabling your computer because you upgraded your RAM and Microsoft therefore believes that you've pirated Windows (wtf?!).

I think Vista is unlikely to do very well. There's simply too much competition from Apple these days (especially now the iPod is so popular, it's very good for marketing of Macs), and so many techier users are going for Linux or other UNIX variants. Plus, Vista is very very late -- originally it was supposed to be out in 2004, now it won't be out until 2007 -- and it's nearly all of the features that made it a worthwhile upgrade (WinFS, kernel and API rewrite, lots of other stuff). Add on top of that that most Windows users are not very knowledgeable about computers and only tend to upgrade their OS when they buy a new computer, most OS purchases are from big corporations and companies (somewhere where Linux seems to be making huge inroads, if you read the news). Big deployments of Win2K or WinXP are unlikely to be upgraded for some time to come, at least until Windows Vista has been out for a while and people have an idea of how secure it is (and a service pack or two has come around).

I wouldn't be investing in Microsoft right now.

[NordieBoy]

I know plenty of people who are going to be getting Vista the day it's released

[sAsLEX]

I know plenty of people who are going to be getting Vista the day it's released

hopefully through a torrent or similar!

I run unbuntu at present alongside XP, but the lack of inbuilt media is annoying ( yeah I know i can DL the thinigs needed rather easily) plus KB looks funny in Mozilla in Linux for some reason, the font type appears different and annoys me ....... that is really the main reason I stay away from it, and Auto cad dont run in unbuntu

[Badcat]

I know plenty of people who are going to be getting Vista the day it's released

well - for me, windows is like anal sex.
a lot of people are into it, and all power to them.
it just isn't for me.

ken

[NordieBoy]

hopefully through a torrent or similar!

I run unbuntu at present alongside XP, but the lack of inbuilt media is annoying ( yeah I know i can DL the thinigs needed rather easily) plus KB looks funny in Mozilla in Linux for some reason, the font type appears different and annoys me ....... that is really the main reason I stay away from it, and Auto cad dont run in unbuntu

Tried Opera?

[sAsLEX]

Tried Opera?

Yeah but years of drunken yelling has played havoc on my vocal chords......