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David R
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Posted: 15th Sep 2005 22:10 Edited at: 15th Sep 2005 22:11
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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.mspx

Quite a nice little mini-site actually. Lots of info etc. - and a few nice little touches and screenshots. Personally though, given the price tag (I assume £90-100) I definately won't be buying it - even if the marketing hype haunts me in my dreams. Still an interesting site to check-out though

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Torrey
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Posted: 15th Sep 2005 22:29
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Microsoft has been working on this for some time now. I'm kind of disappointed on the outcome of that work. A company as large as Microsoft with programmers in almost every country, and this is all they came up with?

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Posted: 15th Sep 2005 22:30
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Vista is going to be sweet, and you're all going to eat your words!

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Posted: 15th Sep 2005 22:39
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And you'll eat your words if it ends up as another Windows Me !

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Posted: 15th Sep 2005 22:44 Edited at: 15th Sep 2005 22:44
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Quote: "And you'll eat your words if it ends up as another Windows Me !"


I doubt that, because they've already marketed Vista more than they did Me. And there was a good reason for that.

Anywho, I'd like to eat words if I could. I would definitely eat the words 'tasty' and 'plethora' first.


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Posted: 15th Sep 2005 22:47
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Jimmy have you been watching Fear Factor?

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I have to say I like this Microsoft website, it's nice and crisp, and most important, it's easy to navigate.

It's all great saying, oh look, oh rubbish, that's all they could come up with...but if it's easy for people to navigate their way, do you think they really care what their website looks like (besides making it look a bit professional)

Good Luck to them, chances are they will never read this message of mine because they are 'Working' Staff


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Posted: 15th Sep 2005 22:51
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Quote: "and this is all they came up with?"


I reckon it won't be as big a change as xp was (xp had that blue look!) but vista is going to be v good. The directx rendering system, the new way folders work etc.

I'll def. get it, mainly because I get a new pc around about the time they release a new OS

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Posted: 15th Sep 2005 22:54
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Quote: "mainly because I get a new pc around about the time they release a new OS
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But you may be unlucky enough to get a PC, say 2/3 weeks before release of Vista; so it'll have XP on it instead

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Posted: 15th Sep 2005 23:05
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Quote: "so it'll have XP on it instead "


Yeah, that would be kinda a bummer


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Posted: 15th Sep 2005 23:33
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Quote: "But you may be unlucky enough to get a PC, say 2/3 weeks before release of Vista; so it'll have XP on it instead "


No, I'll wait til they're offering vista ones before buying

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Posted: 16th Sep 2005 00:27
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Eric T
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Posted: 16th Sep 2005 00:32
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Too bad most of us won't be able to use Vista to any of its potential:

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2005/09/07/vista_hardware_reqs/

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Posted: 16th Sep 2005 02:21
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thats rediculous requirements, what windows guys need to do is tweak the kernel to handle memory better, windows memory management is terrible as of late, processes continue to run even if the program is closed, ram stays occupied after some calculations, virtual memory is in use while 50%+ ram is empty, stupid stuff like that

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Ian T
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Posted: 16th Sep 2005 02:26
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-No WinFS
-No Indigo
-Little Palladium integration
-Same old crap

I'm sure it'll be good as an evolutionary upgrade but they have cut out everything really promising. Somehow I doubt many people, especially in businesses, will feel driven to upgrade urgently.

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Posted: 16th Sep 2005 22:04
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And there's something like 17 versions of the damn thing. What the hell--- MS needs to wake up and smell the customers

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JoelJ
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Posted: 16th Sep 2005 22:28
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Quote: " Vista is going to be sweet, and you're all going to eat your words!"

I've used Windows Vista Beta 1, it hasn't changed (EXTERNALLY) except for some visual garbage, and running it on a 600mhz system is like suicide, 2x slower than XP pro is on that machine ICK.
I have a slight feeling that Vista will suck big time... It seems that everything they're actually implementing is already being used in Mac OSX and several Linux Distros.
They're just "catching up" as it were
I'm VERY disapointed, makes me want to cry


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Posted: 17th Sep 2005 00:02
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Quote: "I've used Windows Vista Beta 1, it hasn't changed (EXTERNALLY) except for some visual garbage, and running it on a 600mhz system is like suicide, 2x slower than XP pro is on that machine ICK."


I can run XP on my P2 266MHz much quicker than on my AMD K6-2 450MHz. Same amount of RAM, Same HDD, only difference really being the Graphics. One has a GeForce 2 GTS, the other has an ArtX 128-bit.

Quote: "It seems that everything they're actually implementing is already being used in Mac OSX and several Linux Distros."


There is currently NOTHING like Avalon on any other operating system. In-fact the features that are Vista exclusive (as in XP won't be getting support to run them) are all pretty innovative and new. Yet as a home user most of these will never be noticed, nor will they really be used.

Quote: "They're just "catching up" as it were"


Catch up what?

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Posted: 17th Sep 2005 03:30
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I already have virtual folders now with 10.4.2 they are called smart folders in mac land.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/finder/

and many other features are already in mac OS X now.
btw MAC OSX86 is out very soon in a commercial release.

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