Windows Vista
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Category: News And Views
Forum Name: Thoughts and Opinions
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Printed Date: 11 January 2026 at 10:43am
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Topic: Windows Vista
Posted By: .Ryan
Subject: Windows Vista
Date Posted: 07 March 2006 at 9:08pm
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So, I was reading http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1931913,00.asp - this article on extreme tech about Vista and why it wont suck. I haven't done a lot of research on it but between what they mentioned in the article and the other things I've read/heard, I'm gettin kinda excited about it....Not sure when it'll be released but it should be something to see....Thoughts? -------------  |
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Posted By: Cedric
Date Posted: 07 March 2006 at 9:18pm
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Paul is a dead man. ------------- 
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Posted By: dodan44
Date Posted: 07 March 2006 at 9:18pm
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i really dont care. ------------- i pawn noobs |
Posted By: Trogdor2
Date Posted: 07 March 2006 at 9:20pm
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It'll just be "meh". It's just putting a new face on Windows with a few upgrades.
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Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 07 March 2006 at 9:26pm
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uhhhh, the beta test version i've tried was...meh.
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Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 07 March 2006 at 9:36pm
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Its just windows, who cares? All of the "revolutionary" features are just stolen from Mac OSX anyway. And it has TCPA, http://www.againsttcpa.com/what-is-tcpa.html - http://www.againsttcpa.com/what-is-tcpa.html All those features in that article are totally ho-hum anyway. ZOMG NEW SOUND! Who cares? And then you have this:
New driver model my ass, they just want you to chuck $200 on XP 2. And their new security thing will be a huge pain. Theyre trying to do *NIX style permissions and accounts, but its microsoft so of course theyll bork it up. Besides, the only reason theyre doing all this new security stuff is for TCPA (Or whatever the christ theyre calling it nowdays) ------------- 
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Date Posted: 07 March 2006 at 9:43pm
It wasn't only stolen from macs. The multiple desktop feature was stolen from linux (did linux steal it from mac? From my experience its a unique to linux feature). I can't wait for Bill to call all of the features new and revolutionary, developed by microsoft. |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 07 March 2006 at 9:51pm
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64bit OS. Giggidygiggidygoo! I want my 64bit processor to bust out some 64bit whoopass, but I can't on XP Home. ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 07 March 2006 at 9:53pm
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Meh. I'll wait until it's available free from my school, then decide how good it is for myself.
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Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 07 March 2006 at 9:53pm
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Well, I don't really care what was stolen from whom but the tcpa thing is crap.... ------------- |
Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 07 March 2006 at 9:54pm
So get XP 64-bit? |
Posted By: Frozen Balls
Date Posted: 07 March 2006 at 9:55pm
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So what is actually new, other than to windows? ------------- 
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Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 07 March 2006 at 10:37pm
| Giant Piece of Spyware. |
Posted By: BooksAndLeaves
Date Posted: 07 March 2006 at 10:51pm
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Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 07 March 2006 at 10:56pm
| I will wait till next year when I can get it for 10$ from school. |
Posted By: Hades
Date Posted: 07 March 2006 at 11:35pm
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The video card requirements just to run to OS are pretty steep. ------------- 
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 07 March 2006 at 11:45pm
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thats all i hear. im not computer literate. whats going on? [/confusion] ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 08 March 2006 at 12:19am
| There were some promising ideas about Vista in a Microsoft propaganda report I read last summer. |
Posted By: PyROphantasie
Date Posted: 08 March 2006 at 12:43am
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i just hope it's better than windows 2000
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Posted By: blackdog144
Date Posted: 08 March 2006 at 1:10am
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i hope its really good...because im holding off on buying a new comp until vista comes out...
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 08 March 2006 at 1:20am
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So far, all I've seen of Windows Vista is annoying. All the amazing, new features, I already have on my computer. If you care to watch, it plays the audio of the Vista presentation, while a mac easily completes all the tasks with software that exists. I suggest watching.
http://live.watchmactv.com/?p=154 - Part 1 http://live.watchmactv.com/?p=155 - Part 2 http://live.watchmactv.com/?p=157 - Part 3 |
Posted By: Hades
Date Posted: 08 March 2006 at 3:25pm
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Not that I want to turn this into a Mac vs Pc. debate but Chopps, how many Games will a Mac run successfully?
Both Machines serve their purposes, to some extent. And before you ask me how many Windows Blue Screen's I have had. The answer with XP is none. I dont particularly like Xp, but for me it has gotten the job done. And I can count the number of Win2k crashes on one hand and I ran that for several years. -------------
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Posted By: oreomann33
Date Posted: 08 March 2006 at 3:30pm
I buried paul. ------------- 
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Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 08 March 2006 at 4:02pm
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HAHA Those are BRUTAL choop! So true...So hilariously true. -------------
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Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 08 March 2006 at 4:07pm
http://www.aspyr.com/ - http://www.aspyr.com/ http://www.macsoftgames.com/ - http://www.macsoftgames.com/ http://www.insidemacgames.com/ - http://www.insidemacgames.com/ http://www.macgamefiles.com/ - http://www.macgamefiles.com/ Obviously you dont get the same amount of selection, but most major games are ported to mac relatively quickly. Theres exceptions, such as Valve refuses to mac for some reason, but who wants Steam(ing pile of...You know what) on a mac? A few major developers do their own mac versions, and do it well. Blizzard has always supported mac, and since Diablo2 second printing, all their games are hybrid discs out of the box, meaning you can drop Warcraft3 or World of Warcraft or Starcraft into a mac and it will install and play perfectly. Id software did native mac support for quite a while until Graeme Devine quit, so Doom3 and on has been ported by a third party. One of the things I like to throw in console gamers faces is the fact that Halo was originally designed as a mac-only game. Bungie decided to take the Blizzard route and release it as cross-system out of the box, and only when the PC gaming magazines started to pick it up did Microsoft buy it out to sell their poo-box. -------------
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Posted By: Cedric
Date Posted: 08 March 2006 at 4:12pm
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Whoever invented Steam deserves to die a slow and painful death. -------------
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 08 March 2006 at 4:26pm
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 08 March 2006 at 5:51pm
| As entertaining/ true those videos are, they bug me... how so many people will be like "zomg revolutionary!" when it's not at all. Windows even bought source code from apple... |
Posted By: Dazed
Date Posted: 09 March 2006 at 3:48pm
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Who cares?
Seriously, since its now just a redesigned version of windows 2003 with extra crap thrown on for dressings, I don't care. I wasn't impressed when it was actually going to be a new os(back in the longhorn days) with a new file system and overhauled kernel. I was more worried about the inevitable problems it would have caused. Now that its just NT version 6(or is it 6.1?) I'm just grateful that there shouldn't be any compatibility issues with in-system software. I'm mostly just "meh" about it. Personally? My next home machine will probably be a mac, so I'm not too concerned about it there either. |
Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 09 March 2006 at 5:57pm
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From what the article said, they are revamping the kernel....What were they going to do with the file system? ------------- |
Posted By: Sammy
Date Posted: 09 March 2006 at 7:29pm
Link? |
Posted By: 98cboy
Date Posted: 11 March 2006 at 5:52pm
| go to linux they got some awesome systems like 1,000s to pick from |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 11 March 2006 at 5:55pm
Word has it, the source code they bought is the code for the Spotlight dealy that is embedded in OS X 10.4 and up. So, windows has re-done their file system to make is searchable by such a program. I've heard that as a result of this, OS X will be able to nativly run on PC, and vice versa. Not sure, since it's still semi early, but that sounds like the case |
Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 11 March 2006 at 6:47pm
since steam got a huge overhaul, it's not too bad anymore. i don't like some of the game code changes that valve has initiated but i work around what i can. -------------
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Posted By: whack-a-mole
Date Posted: 11 March 2006 at 9:26pm
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Posted By: PlentifulBalls
Date Posted: 11 March 2006 at 11:51pm
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I'll stick to XP thank you very much.
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