The new MS Windows - what a joke

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ie that is my educational guess based on past experiences:

http://money.cnn.com/2005/07/22/technology/microsoft_vista/index.htm?cnn=yes

And what is it with MS and stupid dorky names for software? It's bad enough they abandoned the very logical number versioning system (ie 3.0, 3.1, etc).....now we aren't even doing it by using the year; instead we have "Vista."

:rolleyes:

Along, of course, with the usual fluffy BS reasons why it's worth wasting another $100 on: better security, easier to use, blah blah blah.

XP is working fine for me and gives me more than enough "features." Then again so did Win2000, and heck Win98 for that matter. In fact the only reason I bought XP was that my system came with ME which is possibly the worst OS ever.
 
Be carefull what be say about windows ME, pal.

Seriously, if I'd been running some boring OS like XP, I'd never had learnt so much. You only learn when things go wrong.
 
Even apple still has a version numbering system, along with the names. I rarely refer to the apple versions as "Panther" or "Tiger", I prefer 10 3, or 10 4 respectively.
 
bigred said:
Did they finally come out with color monitors?

;)
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Designer in the cube a couple rows from mine has a Mac with a 2350 x 1600 truecolor monitor. It rocks, even though the monitor is bigger than my desk.
 
just wait

It won't be long before the WINDOWS machine on your desk will accommodate Macintosh systemX --- this is because Apple is going to have to start using processors that are x86-based (Intel or AMD) and then the mac CPU architecture will be the same as what you have in your pc. Then the only thing stopping everyone from loading a version of OSx onto their machine is the apple proprietary licensing.

DELL is chomping at the bit.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,121421,00.asp

A stand-alone OSx version for the pc is available already ---- CherryOS
(or you can run MacOSx using an emulator such as Pear-pc)
 
Anyone, ANYONE, complaining about any product before it is ready for release is being a fool about it.

You can't know what changes will take place before publishing, including possible name changes.

Excessive hyperbole to show irrational anger - what a joke
 
SmooveK said:
Anyone, ANYONE, complaining about any product before it is ready for release is being a fool about it.

You can't know what changes will take place before publishing, including possible name changes.

Excessive hyperbole to show irrational anger - what a joke
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Well they've released the name and it's a crap name. :)
 
A stand-alone OSx version for the pc is available already ---- CherryOS
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No, CherryOS is a scam: it is an unauthorized version of PearPC. BTW, both of them, CherryOS and PearPC, are very slow.
 
wdsmith said:
When I hear "Vista," I keep thinking of the Dodge Colt Vista, a thoroughly unremarkable car.
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Actually, having owned two of the little beasts, I must challenge that statement. The Colt Vista was a remarkable car in some ways, perhaps the most important being the unique combination of clever versatility and incompetent implementation!

Here's a car that is a small as a compact, seats 7 people, acts like a van but has regular doors, with optional pushbutton 4WD, good towing capability, good fuel economy, reasonable performance, lots of features. High tech OHC engine with clean burn technology and silent shafts, ultra-compact dual range transmission... What's not to like?

Well, maybe uncontrollable torque steer, weight-transfer brake lockup that could easily drive the adult diaper market, instant rust, a weak transmission mated to the world's most complicated electro-mechanical-pneumatic shift mechanism to guarantee damaging mis-shifts, carburetor icing, premature tire wear, flimsy sheet metal and nicely made seats that almost guarantee permanent spinal damage...oh, and the world's most expensive spare parts.

If you're wondering why I had two, I had a bunch of kids, needed the seating and the 4WD, and it wasn't my only car. I'm mechanically inclined and a pretty good welder, and my second one was a rolled over 4WD salvage vehicle for which the first, after its inevitable transmission failure, became a parts donor. It made sense at the time despite its shortcomings.

But you get the point. The original Honda Odyssey was essentially a Colt Vista made right. Mitsubishi should never have attempted it.

And yes, when I saw the Microsoft announcement, I also immediately thought of the Colt Vista, and thought too that it would almost certainly be the Colt Vista of operating systems: a do-it-all and fail-at-each package, flashes of brilliance tempered by huge, disabling flaws, short lived and expensive to maintain.
 
Bigred said:
XP is working fine for me and gives me more than enough "features." Then again so did Win2000, and heck Win98 for that matter. In fact the only reason I bought XP was that my system came with ME which is possibly the worst OS ever.
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Now come on. Every WIndows OS before NT was a piece of crap. XP is certainly better than NT.

I agree I wouldn't bother to upgrade to a newer OS, except when buying a new machine.

~~ Paul
 
Well, I downloaded a copy of Windows Vista Beta 1 (It can be found at PirateBay)

I can say this about it, it's very much like Windows XP, nothing really new except for a few interface changes and everything runs in 64 bit.

But from what I've read, I am scared about what they are going to put into Beta 2 of Windows Vista. I don't want to shell out major $$$$ to get a new "HDCP" compatible monitor.

I can run most any highend ap on it. On the computer where I have an NForce Motherboard, well I can say that there are major issues with the Nforce AGP driver.

The operating system seems to work better with ATI than NVidia. I suspect this is due to the fact that ATi and Microsoft basically have a partnership now with the conception of the XBox360.
 
Also remember that many features of the Windows desktop are rather invisible to the everyday home user. How Windows ties in with the windows server products is generally where Microsoft does more tinkering. XP and Server 2003 have some pretty decent enterprise management features that are an improvement over Win2k workstation and server. It might not necessarily be enough to move one from Win2k environment to Win2003, but if your moving from NT4 say, you might as well.

Of course there is always the obligatory juggling of the GUI, just to keep things interesting, but you usually can just set it back to the classic desktop.
 
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