Coolest Vista demo ever

[13Gigatons]

Vista Demo: http://www.windowsvista.si/main.htm?lang=1033

Note: You need to install Silverlight first: http://silverlight.net/Showcase/

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Is there a way to watch this without DL'ing anything? Is it even worth it?

 

[swtethan]

so... just a virtual machine? Ultimate has this doesnt it

 

[13Gigatons]

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
Is there a way to watch this without DL'ing anything? Is it even worth it?

SilverLight is m$ answer to flash, if it becomes popular you will need to install it.

 

[TheNewbie]

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
Is there a way to watch this without DL'ing anything? Is it even worth it?

SilverLight is m$ answer to flash, when it becomes popular you will need to install it.

fixed

 

[13Gigatons]

http://silverlight.net/samples...Page-Turn/default.html

Page tuning demo is pretty cool.

 

[TwiceOver]

Kinda funny how the demo seems to run the same speed as my local Vista machine.

 

[PrinceofWands]

Should get a ban for using cool and Vista in the same sentence.

 

[imported_LoKe]

So they're trying to convince me to switch to Vista from Linux, and yet I can't watch their video.

And they wonder why Vista was an epic failure.

 

[dwell]

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
Is there a way to watch this without DL'ing anything? Is it even worth it?

SilverLight is m$ answer to flash, if it becomes popular you will need to install it.

Guess we'll never have to install it then. I mean, come on. It's like five years too late to start developing a Flash killer.

 

[Nik]

God... morons and fanboys alike are coming out of the woodwork in this thread.

 

[Linux23]

Cool.

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: Chris

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
Is there a way to watch this without DL'ing anything? Is it even worth it?

SilverLight is m$ answer to flash, if it becomes popular you will need to install it.

Guess we'll never have to install it then. I mean, come on. It's like five years too late to start developing a Flash killer.

more like 10 years

 

[Pepsi90919]

and i tried to install that silverlight thing but it says "cannot load dynamic link library gdiplus.dll in....................."

 

[Miramonti]

I refuse to associate vista with anything cool. Consider it a gag reflex.

 

[Fritzo]

Lame. I installed it. It simulates a Windows Vista desktop, but only half of the screen is in English, and there are no features available except for "Look what I can do" functions.

 

[Linux23]

Vista = Cool

/thread

 

[Hyperlite]

Originally posted by: Linux23
Vista = Cool

/thread

YEAH! just be careful with pcmcia drivers...

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: GuideBot
God... morons and fanboys alike are coming out of the woodwork in this thread.

and you just provide us with an example of a moronic post.

way to go.

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: Hyperlite

Originally posted by: Linux23
Vista = Cool

/thread

YEAH! just be careful with pcmcia drivers...

don't you mean PCCard?

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: Hyperlite

Originally posted by: Linux23
Vista = Cool

/thread

YEAH! just be careful with pcmcia drivers...

don't you mean PCCard?

People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms.

 

[13Gigatons]

As a person who actually uses Vista everyday I can say without a doubt that it is a HUGE improvement over Windows XP but like the 98 vs XP debate it will take time for people to switch to it. I figured it would take 3 years for it to become really mature with patches, service packs and drivers and of course memory prices will continue to fall.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
As a person who actually uses Vista everyday I can say without a doubt that it is a HUGE improvement over Windows XP but like the 98 vs XP debate it will take time for people to switch to it. I figured it would take 3 years for it to become really mature with patches, service packs and drivers and of course memory prices will continue to fall.

What exactly is the improvement over WinXP SP2? Can you be more specific? I just got done reading this month's PC magazine with a 6 page spread on how Vista was unneeded and feels like WinXP layered with bloatware.

What does Vista give a person besides a pretty interface? It still has the crappy registry, it still uses DLL's (so did Windows 3.1!), IE7 is the same version that's on XP. With Vista you can search anywhere on your computer (been doing that with Google Desktop for a while now), you have a Sidebar (again, Google Desktop), you can encrypt your drives (nobody does it), parental controls (yeah, I'll trust Microsoft's descretion on content), and DX10 (probably the best part).

It's a poorly designed product, and we're being told that "this is how it has to be because of all the baddies out there". They should have called Vista "ME II".

 

[Linux23]

Yeah, for some reason my Vista is starting to bog down like a bloated pig, regardless of the daily hard defragmentation.

 

[Yongsta]

I would switch to Vista full time if they can fix two things... 1) Make Copying files much faster (it takes 1 minute to copy a 10kb file wtf??). 2) Able to disable WLAN AutoConfiguration and ability to connect to wireless. You could disable it in XP (Windows Zero Wireless Configuration) and have it connect to wireless. It automatically searches for access points every minute or so and I get lag spikes for a period of 3-4 seconds... frustrating when playing online games.