Windows Vista

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Postby mick_dundee » Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:41 am

Smitty wrote:I am staying with XP Sp2


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Postby shrike » Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:11 am

I played with an RTM release of Vista back in November (shhhhhh!) and I liked it. Quite a few apps I had didn't work with Vista (but have since had patches released to make them work).

I found it was quicker in some things (loading apps, etc) but was slower doing some of the more mundane things.

I liked the aero interface, though the security could be less in your face.

In the end I went back to XP as my PC was on the lowest fringes of what could run Vista nicely (AMD Athlon XP2000+, 1.5Gb RAM, etc etc)
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Postby aardvark » Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:50 am

I had to laugh when all of the free to air tv stations showed all the clowns lining up at midnight to buy Vista.

Most of them reported something along the lines of:
"Geeks and technophiles spent hours in line ups last night, waiting for various computer stores around the country to open at midnight so they could get their hands on the latest offering from Microsoft."

What a joke. The true geeks and technophiles had already downloaded the latest release, installed Vista, realised it runs like shit and reinsalled Linux.
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Postby zzzak » Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:03 pm

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Postby zzzak » Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:06 pm

Zx12Piglet wrote:so, has anyone had problems with vista? people here are having hay days over it...


Is that when you say,

"Hay,can someone come on over and fix this durn computer"?

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Postby shrike » Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:06 pm

aardvark wrote:I had to laugh when all of the free to air tv stations showed all the clowns lining up at midnight to buy Vista.

Most of them reported something along the lines of:
"Geeks and technophiles spent hours in line ups last night, waiting for various computer stores around the country to open at midnight so they could get their hands on the latest offering from Microsoft."

What a joke. The true geeks and technophiles had already downloaded the latest release, installed Vista, realised it runs like shit and reinsalled Linux.


Whaddya mean reinstalled Linux? The REAL geeks would have dualbooted or run Vista in a VM.

And you call yourself a geek :roll:
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Postby mfzx6r » Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:19 pm

The non geeks were drinking more beer at midnight and thinking about giving the feret a run
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Postby aardvark » Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:04 pm

shrike wrote:Whaddya mean reinstalled Linux? The REAL geeks would have dualbooted or run Vista in a VM.

And you call yourself a geek :roll:


No, the real geeks would have installed it on their 3rd PC, which they use soley for trying out "experimental Microsoft software". They wouldnt be installing it on the same system that they run Linux on, just in case MS has installed some demonic Linux eating virus.

And I've never called myself a geek. Only the girls in high school called me that. :cry:
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Postby Daisy » Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:31 pm

Why would anyone want Vista anyway? Get a Mac. :P

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Postby Daisy » Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:33 pm

On second thought...
you can install Vista in two minutes.
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Postby mrmina » Fri Mar 09, 2007 4:17 pm

our IT guy recommended me to stay away from it on the new laptops.
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