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richard
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Microsoft rolls out "Vista"
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Jan 30 18:21 UTC 2007 |
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richard
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Jan 30 18:22 UTC 2007 |
Last night I stopped by the big Compusa store on fifth avenue here
in Manhattan where Microsoft was holding a roll-out party to mark the
debut of its new O/S, Vista, which went on sale at midnight. I got to
try a laptop with Vista on it and it has some nice new bells and
whistles, and looks nice enough, but I was underwhelmed. Microsoft has
to have some good spindoctors just to push the idea that you
necessarily need to upgrade your O/S everytime they put out a new
version. Yet some people buy into it. There were in fact people lined
up last night outside Compusa in the cold waiting for the strike of
midnight so they could buy Vista and run home and stay up all night
installing it. Microsoft Geeks who think Bill Gates is god evidently.
Word is Vista is not even compatible at this time with Ipod, which
might have been news to not a few in line who I saw wearing Ipods.
Has anyone else seen Vista? Even if I wanted a new microsoft O/S,
which I don't, I didn't see much that told me this would have been
worth the money.
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nharmon
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Jan 30 19:10 UTC 2007 |
Microsoft Flight Simulator X, one of the most advanced Flight Simulation
games available does not run very well in Windows XP because it was
developed for DirectX 10. DirectX 10 is only available in Windows Vista.
I know quite a few people who were disappointed by FSX's performance
under XP and were eagerly waiting for the public release of Vista.
By the way, I've been playing with Vista since November when we received
our volume license codes and downloaded the ISOs. It's not spectacular,
but still a lot better than XP. One major feature I liked is that
storage drivers no longer need to be loaded on a floppy disk during the
OS load. There is a GUI installer and it will let you load the drivers
from a USB drive or CD.
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nharmon
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Jan 30 19:11 UTC 2007 |
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twenex
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Jan 30 21:24 UTC 2007 |
Re: #1. The consensus on Vista seems to be that it's a waste of time. Nice
for journalistic opinion to gel with reality where Windows is concerned, for
once.
In other news, Gates claims Vista is the most secure operating system ever
released.
Maybe he means it this time.
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mynxcat
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Jan 30 21:30 UTC 2007 |
It's secure in terms of parental controls. Heard it doesn't relly work woith
business applications like Siebel and SAP.
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