Windows Vista

[BubbaScott]

Anyone heard if its out yet? I was told it was gonna be around Christmas time, but they seem to be pushing back the date for some reason. What are its good points and its drawbacks?

 

[pgp_protector]

Yes I've heard of it, and used the Beta.

1) If you're just a standard user, you don't need to upgrade.
2) Hardcore Gamers won't "need" to upgrade tell you get games that are Direct X 10 Required.
3) It will come with the new computers that are being sold soon, and the ones that are being sold now, should come with an "upgrade" coupon for a free upgrade to vista.
4) If you've got kids, you may want to look into it, as the parental controls are nice.
5) If you like the latest you may want to look into it, as it has lots of eye candy.
6) otherwise I'd just hold of for a few more months at least tell you upgrade.

 

[Qyöt27]

Trusted Computing needs to die a horrible, painful, and quick death. That is all.

Ok, maybe not all:
1) I'm cringing at the resource requirements. There's absolutely no excuse for that. Compensating with better and better hardware is no excuse for poor resource management and usage. This is also a complaint I have with XP.

2) Vista spends all this time in R&D and money spent on developing and this is the best we get? Microsoft is getting rusty - really rusty.

3) Did I mention how Trusted Computing should be shot, staked through the heart, and buried at a crossroads with a chain of garlic around its neck?

4) I didn't like Luna; Aero doesn't cut it for me either. They look way too bloated for my tastes.

In conclusion, unless the programs I absolutely need (mainly video editing apps) stop working with XP and haven't gotten ported/in working order on Linux at that time, I'm never going to upgrade.

 

[icebreaker]

ya just looked over microsoft.com to check out vista features and it really just looks like eye-candy with a built in firewall/AV/AS software for all the people that do nothing for their pc. They just log on go to websites then turn it off.

With those minimum requirements I think only one pc will be able to decently run vista with a ram up grade and Im currently at 1gig.


How far back does most software reconize? Win 95? or 98?

Wonder how long my xp pro wimpy puters will last till their OS is not acknowledged. not any time soon but some time.

 

[Sketcher]

How far back does most software reconize? Win 95? or 98?

Are you talking about running 95 or 98 programs on Vista, or are you talking about running an XP program on 95 or 98? Don't attempt the latter.

 

[macrohard]

Microsoft Vista?

One word:

 

[raphink]

Hasta la vista, Microsoft

 

[wolfman544]

From what I've seen, I don't want to touch or support Vista yet.
Which may cause problems when I order new computers at work.

 

[Gnasher]

would it be worth it - as you need a min of 1gig or ram and 40gig hd and alot hardward will not work unless you spend time looking for drivers etc... will it be worth all the hassel?

 

[AmazingLoveAmazingGrace]

Some hardware has niggling issues with Vista as not all hardware has drivers for it.

The problem is you have to start going backwards to get stuff to work (while some of my hardware was supported natively by Windows Vista, my network card was not recognised and had to be installed with Windows 2000 drivers!)

Vista is supposed to be released worldwide at the end of this month or early February.

 

[theSwitch]

The website says 1/30.

I'll get it eventually.

 

[peepnklown]

Retail stores will release Vista to the consumer on January 30th.
You do not need 1GB of RAM to run Vista…you need 1GB of RAM to run the full visual features of Vista.

 

[wolfman544]

Without a gig will it run like XP on 128 meg?

 

[superfly]

i'm sticking with linux, thanks. No viruses, no spyware, no adware, MUCH less system requirements, free, easy to use, updated all the time, supports more hardware out-of-the-box than any other operating system (no, windows needs driver disks, that's not out-of-the-box), can run most of my windows games either through wine or through cedega. more and more programs and games are being ported to linux (i watch the news).

 

[wolfman544]

yay linux

 

[macrohard]

Yep...

Tax return is on the way, time to build a new Linux box.....

 

[Gnasher]

Retail stores will release Vista to the consumer on January 30th.
You do not need 1GB of RAM to run Vista…you need 1GB of RAM to run the full visual features of Vista.

we tried a version of the basic as a trial on 512meg and it really struggled... so I think we will stick with XP home

 

[Gnasher]

i'm sticking with linux, thanks. No viruses, no spyware, no adware, MUCH less system requirements, free, easy to use, updated all the time, supports more hardware out-of-the-box than any other operating system (no, windows needs driver disks, that's not out-of-the-box), can run most of my windows games either through wine or through cedega. more and more programs and games are being ported to linux (i watch the news).

what if the hardware you use - is adsl modems etc say they don't support Linux - then what you so apart from buying new hardware?

 

[theartist87]

I had a customer bring their computer in today that they upgraded to XP, and wanted to know why it ran slow. It was a 500MHz processor, 64MB RAM, 8GB HDD. Please people. If you didn't buy your computer in the last year, DON'T UPGRADE TO VISTA, for the sake of those of us that have to fix your costly mistake!

 

[rdale]

500MHz processor, 64MB RAM, 8GB HDD

ouch, yikes, and gadzooks... dialup pc