Windows Vista...

[tpunx99GSX]

Does anyone have this or has anyone been tracking the developments in this. From the Microsoft site it looks freakin awesome. Very visually appealing to me. I signed up to get on their beta list. Hopefully i will be sent a version of this soon.

Heres a couple pics from Microsofts site.
http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/windowsvista/images/features/feat_UX_09.jpg
http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/windowsvista/images/features/feat_searchOrg_2.jpg

[DoughtCom]

Been running it for months.... the latest beta is pretty good.

[A//// Guy]

Too bad you have to pay extra for updates... thats really gay imo. It looks cool though!

[Onefast99gsx]

We're getting it through our software assurance program. There has been a delay in the release date.

[howslowcanyougo]

Looks like just another Icon visual facelift on the same weak ass swiss chess security OS designed just to suck more of our cash back to M$ if you ask me?

Either way I WILL be working with it alot, <along with Longhorn server, if it ever gets released> so I'll have to reserve my final judgement for then, but thus far I'm not buying into all of the hype.

Have you seen Fedora 5 yet? The price is right, FREE!!! , TONS of new features and services, and it will stay running for years at a time, not minutes like Winblows.

Download the Fedora 5 DVD ISO Image here:

http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/

And or download MS Virtual Server here and Load her on up on top!

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/software/default.mspx


I'm SOOOOO glad Linux is finally making some inroads in corporate America and now is holding Redmonds feet to the fire!

IMHO......

[Shane@DBPerformance]

Is it worse than XP? I still run Windows 2000 at home, I hated how slow XP is and how dumbed down everything got.

[DoughtCom]

I think it's pretty pimp... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista#End-user_features and the way vista media center edition works... it's going to fucking own.

Most high end users are going to the .Net framework, my companies biggest clients are asking for it and it's definitely an enterprise solution. When you compare it to php, cold fusion and others.... it's not even funny.

However I think linux is going to start picking up momentum in other areas. I was disappointed with Solaris 10, but I'm hoping Sun will be a big contender in the unix/linux based OS. Only time will tell I guess.

[iceminion]

Windows 2000 in my mind is the high point of microsoft OS development....

XP does work for some people, but I wouldnt pay for it

Vista is a joke, its gonna require everyone to upgrade to super-uber-workstations just to run it....yeah its fancy....whoop de doo

I use OSX for casual surfing....and my XP PC for gaming....and when I get a new intel mac I will be able to run XP on it....so I will only have one computer again.

[ABV]

Ok, so this thread is 9 months old, but I was curious if anyone has any updates on how they like Vista. I'm getting my new laptop tomorrow and it has Vista Home Premium loaded on it. I'm basically just going to use it for internet and word processing stuff. Anything heavy duty will be done on my PC, but I was just curious how people like Vista.

Here is the laptop I got, except I bought it last Sunday and the price was only $550. Nothing fancy, but it looked like a good deal. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=1168043102293&ref=39&loc=01&skuId=8233798&type=product

[tpunx99GSX]

I destroyed Vista because it was a complete dog on my systems. But it was still in beta so im not sure how good the improvements are.
I know there are still lots of jokes going around about its performance.