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Yada, yada, yada. I hope he'll be very happy with Linux :rolleyes:
It would be so refreshing if one of these people could actually think of something original to moan about.
Hi,
I have had vista home premium installed in this pc for about 3 weeks and other than the 2 programs vista didn't want installed, Roxio and Roxio backup my pc, both of which I never used anyway so I removed them, this machine has been running great.
I do wish Zone Alarm would get the updates out so I could get a good firewall again. I do have the firewall in the router so I have protection, as well as the windows one which may or maynot be working. It is on.
Some people, writters especially, have to have something to gripe about or they don't get paid.
cheers mac :D ;) :rolleyes: :eek:
beside inconvenience with few drivers, Vista is GREAT:). I will not go back to XP.
Even if Vista isn't selling like hot cakes at the moment, eventually everyone will be using it. All new machines will have it so, resistance is futile.
I have been using Ultimate for a few weeks now. I don't really see anything in it that I really need that XP Pro doesn't already have. When XP Pro came out the Remote Desktop function was really nice plus the firewall and popup blocker that came with Service Pack 2.
One thing that I do like about Vista is the ability to create an image of your system and then be able to put it on a DVD or on the hard drive in case your system crashes or becomes unstable at a future time.
MS thinks people are made of money.
The price of the OS + the HW upgrades needed on the average users machine just to run it make it cheaper to just buy a new system with it pre-installed in some cases. My neighbor purchased Ultimate only to find he needed more memory. Unfortunetly, his system uses rdram...ouch. :) (granted, he should have checked first of course)
It also wanted him to uninstall Quickbooks 2007, a software program vital to his business. What a joke.
Before he returned it, I borrowed it and set up a dual boot on my OS X Tiger system. It didn't stay there long. Vista is a turd!
And before anyone says it, no, I'm not a windows basher. I have two other systems with XP Pro SP2 on them and am perfectly happy with them.
Sometimes, the "latest and greatest" isn't that at all.
"Vista is a turd!" perhaps Microsoft will use that as a new slogan:D
End of the day Vista is great but you need to check that your hard/software is up to it.
Every single version of Windows since Win 3.1, and even before, has had some software incompatibilities. I don't get why everyone seems to expect that this time things will be different and everything will run perfectly :confused: Of course there will be some software that won't run, that's why there are countless upgrade advisors (all posted right here in this forum), so that folks can make an informed choice before installing Vista. For the most part though, I've found very few problems even in 64-bit Vista.
What are the things that Vista does that XP Pro can't? The only thing that really appeals to me is the Imaging that can now be done so that your can do a restore if needed.
I can't think of anything else besides that I need from Vista. Anybody else?
What do U thing about XP not being supported by means of Windows Updates(only a big IF:) ), in the future?
Reality is: all PC in the market will be Vista.
What Vista does that XP doesn't is that it is inherently secure. That's a big thing to me. Even Symantec grudgingly admitted as much the other day, and they've done nothing but whinge because MS wouldn't let them hack the kernel. And then there is the massively improved search as well, to name but two items. Plus shedloads of small, but nonetheless nice, improvements.
But I've never quite understood what people expect from an OS, every new release we gat the same tired old phrases trotted out, like "there is no must-have feature". What "must-have feature" did XP have over Win2000? Or Win2000 over W98? Or W98 over W95? Or W95 over 3.1? It seems to me that every single version has been a series of incremental improvements over the previous ones, none of them had anything that major that I can think of, with the possible exception of Win95.
I hope Vista works as well as XP Pro, I just bought this laptop and it came XP media center and a fee upgrade to Vista which is on its way. I am lookng forward to giving it a try. As far as I am concerned every OS sense 3.1 has been a step foward for MS with the exeception of ME. I have had very good results with XP Pro. Vista will be one all my systems ( eventually) if it works well on this.
I've been reading quite a few of the for/against articles on Vista....frankly, they sound almost exactly the same as the for/against articles when XP came out. The Win 98 holders-on finally gave up and most if not all, fighting and scratching all the way, came over to XP. I expect the same when they switch to Vista...it'll happen eventually. I suspect some of the hardcore nay-saying gamers will freak when they see DX 10 games being played....they'll switch in a heartbeat. :D
My feelings exactly. Heck, half of them are probably the sameQuote:
Originally Posted by bistro
articles where they have just done a find and replace on "XP" and substituted "Vista" :D
I've been dual booting XP and Vista for about a week now, and haven't gotten down to using Vista other than on a few occasions. I cannot say whether I like or dislike it.
But some of you are overlooking some of the biggest differences that we got from Windows 98 to XP, one being stability. Other huge differences that we got were Task Manager, System Restore, Firewall and a vastly improved GUI to mention a few.
Again, I don't know enough about Vista to give my opinion on whether it is worth it or not, but I certainly hope that it will bring as much to the table as XP brought.
I have dealt with 2 new PCs that came with Vista pre installed and both had strange issues while using them, like all of the sudden explorer didn't respond and had to be restarted. sure it restarted and it was working but come on, it should not just stop responding like that I mean Windows XP doesn't really do that hardly ever.
Vista Shmista! ;-) Me thinks it'll be fine and dandy... may need a little seasoning but will be quite a dandy...
Ultimately it's the game of forced upgrade ... must sell more equipment and software and MS is all giddy about providing that incentive.
The jump from win98 to WinXP was a huge leap, 10 fold easily... XP was such a stability increase, among other things, for the user it's ridiculous!!!
From WinXP to Vista .... well, the jury is still out on that. But I don't think it'll be quite the "leap" ... possibly in the security area it will be a leap. Although that's to be determined too I would think....
And as it's been said ... Resistance is Futile! ... then again, maybe that's part of the problem. Ya think?
By what standard are you measuring this? If I'm interpreting your meaning correctly, then this would seem to indicate otherwise. If I am mistaken in my understanding, I apologize.Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperSparks
What's OneCare Live got to do with Vista? It's an entirely separate product, and by all accounts is indeed a very poor AV solution at the moment.
Vista has been completely re-written from the ground up with security expressly in mind. No doubt there will still be some exploits, as a totally 100% secure OS is probably an impossibility. But compared to previous versions of Windows, Vista should be vastly less vulnerable to malware.