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I have a boring microphone, of the silver desktop Logitech USB variety that I've seen several people have. It's pretty good, and I used it in Vista RC2 to test out the voice control stuff to great success. However, after a long time of using RC2, it just.... stopped working. I am unable to...

I was traditionally a begrudged Windows user, forced to put up with security holes and instability to run the programs I wanted. XP kept me from jumping ship by being merely tolerable; it was very stable except for drivers, mainly video. Security still sucked, especially until Service Pack 2...

You mean Microsoft didn't actually put in several hundred MBs of services that have no real purpose?!?! Why not?

Since when does Vista have DRM? Vista nerely supports DRM, which is something implemented on MEDIA FILES to restrict content. Vista only supplies a secured path so that content does not shut itself out completely... And this guy is only talking about getting past the requirement for signed...

Remember, Microsoft has to pay for these codecs; they needed to test them in the betas obviously, but it would have been unreasonable to license the codec for every beta tester. Apparently they just bargained a deal with whoever supplied the codec that allowed them to include it as long as it...

Sorry about the bad link, should be fixed now.

http://img462.imageshack.us/my.php?image=inteldesktoproadmapif0.png Looks like earlier rumors are true, but can anyone explain to me how there can Hyper threading without extra threads being added to each core? We must be talking about some sort of thread management technology rather than...

Sarcasm is a tone of irony. The definition of irony stipulates that there must be a third enlightened party observing one party playing a joke or trick on another, who falls for it because they are ignorant unlike the observer. WE are the enlightened party here, and the joke is VISTA! How...

Why Windows Vista Sucks: I've endured using Vista's Beta versions for over half a year now, so I am fully qualified to make the declaration that in truth, it sucks. Hard. Let's start with bloat, and boy, is there bloat. I have two gigs of RAM, and Vista has no problem wasting over half...

If you want cutting edge next-gen graphics, intense online multiplayer, and downloadable content out the wazoo... get a 8800GTX. If not, get a Wii. If you picked the graphics card... still get a Wii. Seriously, Wii is one of the most impressive consoles I've ever had, and it hasn't reached...

The key point here is that virtually every new CPU, AMD or Intel, desktop or mobile, is 64-bit...

...but that $300 figure for the 360 blissfully ignores extra and inevitable associated costs... Fore example, Dreamcast was for awhile free with commitment to sega's online service, so was the Dreamcast a free system? The fact is, Wii costs considerably less than the 360 at the expense of...

Don't be ridiculous; The Xbox 360 is for all intents and purposes $400, as no sane human should ever be allowed to buy the cut-down "core" version. Face it, the fact that the core SKUs make up such a small percent of the total shipments and isn't even present in some markets is a clear...

I've been a vista user since Beta 2, and a happy Vista user since RC1. However, a certain odd factor has reared its head... I can't see ANYTHING on my dorm's local network! (And they can't see me!) Where it is just browsing or setting up a game server, I'm out of the loop. However, access to...

The x86 Beta 2 drivers are giving me errors when I try to start the installer... I'm assuming the defualt drivers are not optimal, but has ATI produced anything for later builds than Beta 2? What about a manual install, all the files are there...