Windows Vista Beta 2 cancelled......................maybe

[NikPreviousAcct]

It's all good :beer:

 

[firewall]

:beer:

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: asadasif

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: asadasif

Originally posted by: LoKe
http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3362112

I thought AT condoned piracy, etc....... The betas aren't available for the public yet.....

No, AT doesn't condone piracy.

http://forums.anandtech.com/categories.aspx?catid=34

Oops... sorry, wrong word used... I thought it meant 'didn't support'.

You were probably thinking more of "condemed" than "condoned"

 

[firewall]

Originally posted by: Injury

Originally posted by: asadasif

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: asadasif

Originally posted by: LoKe
http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3362112

I thought AT condoned piracy, etc....... The betas aren't available for the public yet.....

No, AT doesn't condone piracy.

http://forums.anandtech.com/categories.aspx?catid=34

Oops... sorry, wrong word used... I thought it meant 'didn't support'.

You were probably thinking more of "condemed" than "condoned"

Yeah. That was the one!

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
The more I hear about Vista the less interested I get.

Yeah, pretty much.

The only thing that I was excited about was WinFS, which I believe they dropped from initial release.

 

[Shadowknight]

Meh, I'm still happy with W2k sp2, I probably won't upgrade until newer games/apps require a newer Windows version to work.

 

[Slammy1]

The issue, as I see it, is more one of driver support. Maybe Creative will finally be able to design some decent drivers. XP did get a lot more stable with sp2 mostly, but I still hold that it wasn't designed around the faster computers we have now vs the 800-MHz systems that were the target during design. HT, 64-bit processing, PAT, dualies, plus all the other advances that have come out in the last 4 years. I'd hope they provide better support for all this and more.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: RGN
yeah, all the bitching is nothing new. Everyone will install it anyway and a year after its released it will be loved for one feature or another. Same thing has happened with EVERY other major release.

many people never left win2k for xp, many of my friends and myself...

I see no reason to pay $100-200 for a new interface and updated driver cabs.

 

[firewall]

OEMs suck. They will be the main method of Vista propagation.....

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: jimbob200521

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons

Originally posted by: Snapster

Originally posted by: her209
So what does Vista do that XP can't?

One of the things people don't know much about is that there's a new sound stack control system, which allows you to adjust sound for individual applications meaning you can turn up media player for example and turn down windows alert sounds (eg new mail in outlook). They've also finally changed the security meaning you can now use the limited accounts properly, and you need the admin password to install and access programs / functions. Not to say that's 'only' two things that they've change since XP, but that's two that's caught my attention so far.

I don't know why people bother criticizing alphas and betas; actually I do as everyone gets off on bitching about Microsoft. So they can't see all the improvements, but it doesn't mean there aren't any under the bonnet.

There are definitly improvements but it will also be more bloated then XP, were gonna need a good video card plus 1-2 gigs of ram. Not a big deal with how fast computer technology improves.

sure it'll be bloated, and run "slow" on current hardware, but wasnt xp the same way when it first came out?

No. You can run windows XP comfortably on a PII system...

 

[Malak]

Yeah Vista will be more bloated, but I look forward to the bloat. Some of that bloat looks mighty fine.

 

[PrayForDeath]

No. You can run windows XP comfortably on a PII system...

If you run WinXP on a 256Mb RAM system, you'd be using the whole RAM on boot (assuming you have AV and other apps running), which makes it only good for IE browsing. So no, it does run slow on old hardware.

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: PrayForDeath

No. You can run windows XP comfortably on a PII system...

If you run WinXP on a 256Mb RAM system, you'd be using the whole RAM on boot (assuming you have AV and other apps running), which makes it only good for IE browsing. So no, it does run slow on old hardware.

No, windows XP uses only 128MB of ram on boot, you'd use more if you're using that bloated POS SP2... The reason you'd want 256 and above ram is because you'd want to run other applications as well.

 

[nweaver]

Yes, because booting to my OS and looking at the green start button (but being unable to touch anything else) is just what I want in an OS....

HP sold my brother a desktop with XP and 128 MB ram, and it was dog freaking slow on an XPSP1 install (no apps yet).

Memory managment for low end systems is one place MS could improve. I can run Linux with a minimal GUI, Evolution, Firefox with a few tabs without swapping at all (AKA Fast)