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Gates promises Vista will wow PC buyers

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  • Triple boot with Edgy Eft and OS X 10.6.
  • Such as:

    "Wow, I can't believed I paid so much for this."

    "Wow, why's the computer so slow now?"

    Or, my personal favorite, "Remember when the computer let us play WoW instead of claiming it was an illegal copy?"

    Actually my wife's ex-husband (cool guy BTW, no bad blood at all) has been runnign a beta version of it and really likes it. I just don't see us upgrading our Celeron D to it any time soon. And I think the M$ Police would kick in my door if I tried to load it on my P166 after Vista sent them its

  • I'd need to spend too much upgrading video cards. But I have to say, one thing I *am* impressed with, but it's a really minor item, is the running thumbnail alt-tab and the rollodex task switcher (also thumbnails of the current state of your application screens, still running). Beyond that, no, and it's not a reason to upgrade. It's just an interesting new interpretation of the 3D desktop.

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      by nizo ( 81281 ) *
      Aside from the wizbang cube o' death, I haven't seen the new desktop at all. Is the rollodex task switcher thingy a ripoff of the Mac one, or is there something new there? I suppose I should go be indoctorinated soon :-| Though if I go to a microsoft presentation, I will have to buy a new linux tshirt just for the occasion :-)
      • ABSOLUTELY- the guy wearing the Tux t-shirt in the front row of my presentation ended up with a free Technet subscription- knowledge base DVDs. Plus, if you go to one of the launch events, you get a free license for Office 2007.
      • Ooops. forgot your question. It's damned close to the MAC one- the only difference I could see is "Microsoft Glass", a semi-transparent effect laid over it so that you could still see what was going on behind it.
  • Even if I wanted to switch to windoze I couldn't. They just don't support anything that we do, like Fortran development and GNU make tools etc, MPI libraries, and minimal systems for compute nodes... If they were to develop tools for managing old Fortran code (like 100 man years and ~1 million lines of code) then I'd switch to windoze. So far they haven't done that, although I'm told they have good development tools for other languages.
  • No plans at all to run Vista right now. Let me check why:

    Windows 3.0? Nope, try Windows 3.1. It took about two years to get that worked out.

    Windows 95? Sucked. Windows 98 was better. Took three years to figure that one out. If you really wanted it to work you should have waited yet another year for Windows 98 SE.

    Windows ME? Please, I can find cheaper ways to inflict pain on myself. The made Windows ME a year later as a step backwards for the user experience.

    Windows 2000? An update to Windows NT

  • Out of all my machines I have only one Windows machine and that's pretty much for gaming. I ran DOS forever as that's what games needed then. Later went to Win98 then installed Win2k in ~2002. I won't run XP because of the DRM and "Genuine Advantage" crap. Vista could be given away for free and I wouldn't install it.

    For movies I have a MythTV box set up (AMD64-X2 3800) with a DVI-HDMI cable. 720p movies play Just Fine without the need for Vista's DRM bullshit thankyouverymuch. :)
  • I've used DOS since something like 1.1, and then Windows, but I'm not going to bother with Vista.

    If it won't work on my Wii, I'll get a Linux or Mac OS laptop when I'm forced to upgrade.

    Can't see spending money on something that provides nothing I really need and forces me to replace my $500 WinXP laptop ahead of time.

    Only reason I use WinXP is to run Sims 2 on it, anyway. Already migrated off Microsoft Office to Open Office, so don't see the point.

    And since I'm busy migrating DBMS to MySQL, can't see wast
  • I'll run Vista at home when I get it on a new PC, whenever that is. Prolly quite some time, maybe when 8- or 16-core processors are mainstream. (Dang, that will be so cool.)

    I'd be very interested in it if I was in a job where we were going to continue developing Windows desktop apps. That's what I made my living on in the first decade or so of my career. When Win95 came out I immediately and enthusiastically dove right in to learn how to integrate with that new GUI shell and program the new built-in GUI con
  • I don't have a single Windoze box and I'm not about to start with Vista.
  • The key to good marketing is to hit them where they will resist first. People have been saying WHO CARES about windows releases for quite some time. MS said XP would be bulletproof because they knew the public would come out against how much it resembles swiss cheese. MS said Vista will WOW us because 8 Million people play World of Warcraft and only raise their head when the word WOW is uttered (ok maybe not the central reason for the campaign but hey -- it makes sense -- Pavlov was a smart cookie). Combine
  • at work i will probably. but at home i've already switched to linux. (and loving it btw. linux is pretty damn good these days. way better than in '98) my next computer will be a mac. maybe a mac mini but hopefully something with more grunt - and the only reason i'll get a mac is because running linux with a recent video card is a hassle. i guess this doesn't matter as long as i would get something with the open intel drivers but i'm willing to give os x a try someday.
    • I just upgraded my home desktop to Kubuntu 6.10 a few days ago. It was on 5.10 before that. 6.10 is great. Auto-detected damn near everything. Plays DVDs with no hassle. wireless just works. (Ok, I had to put in the WEP key and disable the built in ethernet, first, but I had to do that in Windoze too.)

      No Vista for TL, unless they force it on me at work.

  • As I've mentioned before, I'm planning to be Windows-free at home by the end of this year, and then the office by the end of '08. I'll keep an XP box around for a while, if only because I make a nice income troubleshooting Windows boxen, but even then I won't bother snagging Vista. I'm hoping by the time it starts really hitting the mainstream, I'll have the skills (and Vista will have the negative momentum) to just switch people over to Linux or sway some Apple purchases.
  • Not yet. I like XP. I really do. It does what I need it to do, when I need to do it. I'll think about changing it when that becomes no longer the case.

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