http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ttpcworld/20060210/tc_techtues_pcworld/124642&cid=1740&ncid=1729

Above is the link to the 10 reasons why to buy Windows Vista. After reading through it is seems like the message it sends out is "Look we kinda caught up and have some of the cool stuff too that set apart other OSes". Personally, I'm more of a Linux/OS X guy, which doesn't mean I still have respect for Microsoft's OS, but I was somehow expecting that there would be something new and innovative that Vista would bring to the table other than .... wow, IE7 has tabs (Firefox?) ... or great you can search your computer by using indexed data (Spotlight?).

2/19/2006 9:46:51 AM

most of us read slashdot already.

2/19/2006 9:57:56 AM

is that like that new "longhorn" thing that windows was gonna make?

2/19/2006 10:15:00 AM

i still think it looks shitty compared to Apple's OSX

Microsoft hasn't ever invested in good designers for aesthetics.

-ZiP!-

2/19/2006 11:45:59 AM

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"is that like that new "longhorn" thing that windows was gonna make?"

yes.


There is NOTHING about Vista at this point that is new or innovative. It is just shit that other companies and groups have had for years.

2/19/2006 11:52:38 AM

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"There is NOTHING about Vista at this point that is new or innovative. It is just shit that other companies and groups have had for years."

That pretty much sums up microsoft for the last 25+ years.

[Edited on February 19, 2006 at 1:38 PM. Reason : .]

2/19/2006 1:38:28 PM

^^plus the ability to run more than three games.

[Edited on February 19, 2006 at 1:39 PM. Reason : ^^]

2/19/2006 1:39:16 PM

I hope the new security features do what they claim they are supposed to do. Otherwise, I'm sticking with XP till the kinks are worked out of it.

2/19/2006 2:22:53 PM

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"is that like that new "longhorn" thing that windows was gonna make? "

HAHA you've got to be kidding, what a fucktard

2/19/2006 3:16:41 PM

shut the fuck up if you dont have something at least partly useful to say

2/19/2006 3:32:02 PM

people buy windows?

2/19/2006 3:32:50 PM

since when do arabs defend dumb pieces of shits like drunknloaded?

2/19/2006 3:33:32 PM

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"you've got to be kiddingyou've got to be kidding"

umm, i'm pretty sure he was kidding. He was making a bit of a play on guys who read something on slashdot then come and immediately post it in here like it's not news

2/19/2006 3:33:58 PM

you obviously don't know drunknloaded IRL. he's not kidding...but now that you mention it, he will say he was to save face

2/19/2006 3:36:47 PM

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"HAHA you've got to be kidding, what a fucktard"

that is what im irratated about...

and you're a goddamn moron...

2/19/2006 3:40:31 PM

fuck you too

2/19/2006 3:41:22 PM

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

GOLOVKO IS BACK

2/19/2006 4:07:05 PM

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"Microsoft hasn't ever invested in good designers for aesthetics. "

Absolutely wrong. Microsoft has one of the best UI/Interface design groups of any software developer in the world.

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"That pretty much sums up microsoft for the last 25+ years. "

Except not, because you have no clue what you are talking about.

2/19/2006 5:15:52 PM

don't they currently employ some of the designers who worked on OS X?

2/19/2006 8:57:39 PM

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"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH GOLOVKO IS BACK"

umm...i never left?

2/19/2006 11:15:20 PM

they are planning on 6 versions of vista

http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/article.jsp?article_id=71580&cat_id=580

2/27/2006 12:35:10 PM

#1 reason not to get vista:

it's a new OS

2/28/2006 10:01:45 AM

^ LOL i agree

2/28/2006 10:09:07 AM

^^on the same note

Let me give you two why NOT to IMMEDIATELY go buy Vista:

1. Look at what happened with Win64. Driver support was horrible, and despite huge claims, x64 never really seemed to take off.

2. By the time they get the bugs worked out of Vista and you can use it without hassle (and maybe some companies decide to make drivers that are optimized for Vista), the price will fall 100 dollars and you will save yourself three months of constant hassle of trying to get everything to work properly.

Not saying that this is DEFINITELY going to happen, but good grief, its a lot of money to be tossing around until you can be sure that it will be worth it. I'm really glad that I didn't run and buy x64, because there isn't much software for it and nobody seems to care about it.

3/2/2006 2:24:04 PM

^ yeah, wait for the bookstore to get a 69.95 dollar upgrade deal or something for the pro version, if you're not imediately able to download it if you're in comp sci.

3/2/2006 2:27:14 PM

im wanting vista to come out so i can get XP Pro for cheap

3/2/2006 2:33:35 PM

wow you're a jew

3/2/2006 3:49:34 PM

^^Um, I think you can pick up a copy of the XP Pro upgrade disk for about 70 bucks now. I got my upgrade disk two years ago for 83 dollars on newegg.

The price of XP Pro won't drop until Vista becomes the STANDARD. Even the Xbox's price hasn't dropped much since the release of the 360, so don't get your hopes up on Pro bottoming out this year.

3/2/2006 5:02:11 PM

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"most of us read slashdot already."

only you nerds

3/2/2006 5:29:12 PM

slashdot is for fags

3/2/2006 5:29:42 PM

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"There is NOTHING about Vista at this point that is new or innovative."

jesus christ could you be more of a stupid fan boy?

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1931914,00.asp

tell me what OS has anything near as cool or innovative as superfetch? it sure as fuck isn't apple

3/2/2006 5:32:39 PM

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"Microsoft hasn't ever invested in good designers for aesthetics"

Did you miss that time they invested $texas in apple stock?

3/2/2006 7:14:25 PM

^^ does sound neat. seems like an excuse for the average person (not using photoshop/gaming) to really want 2GB+ of ram

3/2/2006 7:40:12 PM

shit, with that feature to increase the system RAM through USB devices, my 1gb SD card will be spending a lot more time in the front of my desktop "just sitting there"

3/2/2006 8:30:17 PM

technically its not system ram. Its just a faster-than-hdd space for prefetching.

the part thats really really really fucking cool is how vista knows what you're going to do before you do it.

even based on day of week or time of day.


like if i come home and play wow at 9pm every night its gonna have that shit already up in ram before i launch it.


kind of like the predicitive data fetching in sqlserver 2005.

3/2/2006 8:58:17 PM

so what if i come home and decide i want to look at some HD porn instead of playing WoW as regularly scheduled? Is it going to take 2x as long to load?

I can see this being another in a long line of "cool" but completely worthless features (system restore anybody?)

3/2/2006 9:50:03 PM

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"I can see this being another in a long line of "cool" but completely worthless features (system restore anybody?) "

Shit dude we use system restore at work all the time.

3/2/2006 10:40:44 PM

system restore is pretty important dude

3/2/2006 10:48:09 PM

i've never used it.

but the new system sounds like i WOULD use it.

3/2/2006 10:57:11 PM

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"I can see this being another in a long line of "cool" but completely worthless features"

Gives hardware vendors an excuse to stay in business

They did a preview of Vista and Office 12 at my workplace yesterday. The new Aero/ribbon system is going to be interesting. You change an interface thats been around for 10+ years, it's going to throw a LOT of people off IMHO.

3/3/2006 5:33:12 AM

im sticking with OS/2

3/3/2006 8:40:30 AM

cheapest i find XP pro at newegg is

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16837102062

definately not 70 or 80 bucks

i assume you got that off some kind of sale?

3/3/2006 11:37:46 AM

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"Tired of listening to some music or playing a game, and having that instant-messaging sound blast out your ears because it's five times louder than your other sounds? Vista will have per-application volume control. Problem solved. "

3/3/2006 12:30:34 PM

^^

http://www.provantage.com/microsoft-academic-e85-02670~7MCSW013.htm

That was what I got, only Newegg was carrying it back then. And this was just from two minutes of froogle-ing. Provantage tends to have stuff pretty cheap, but they are a TRUSTWORTHY source. I've bought lotsa stuff from them before.

3/3/2006 1:01:34 PM

For future reference:

http://www.froogle.com

3/3/2006 1:03:28 PM

thx

3/3/2006 1:07:50 PM