Vista SP2 Beta This Coming Week
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°TheMadDutchDude°
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W00!! Hopefully this will sort out some of the sound problems I get with my onboard sound! And fix a load of bugs that I have yet to experience LOL
Allargando
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wasn't SP1 released about 6 months ago?
seems microsoft is rushing instead of putting any respectable quality into things again
>_>
seems microsoft is rushing instead of putting any respectable quality into things again
>_>
Rastalovich
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Yeah, the quicker u can recycle the same ole ageing code, to atleast look different, the more times u can sell it.
AuraIndigo
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Hey, so long as it`s free ... and doesn`t bork anything 
Only gripe this end, you have a non-SP1 version of whichever Vista. Why do we have to go thru the rigmarole of updating every SP and patch available before we can proceed with the latest service pack??
Registries, by comparison of the OS byte size is tiny. Can the update program not be featured to scan/process the registry to determine exactly what is required and provide the SP accordingly?
It`s kinda like a game patch ... install v1.1 before u install v1.2 before u install .... boils me yella water! Mek sense?
Only gripe this end, you have a non-SP1 version of whichever Vista. Why do we have to go thru the rigmarole of updating every SP and patch available before we can proceed with the latest service pack??
Registries, by comparison of the OS byte size is tiny. Can the update program not be featured to scan/process the registry to determine exactly what is required and provide the SP accordingly?
It`s kinda like a game patch ... install v1.1 before u install v1.2 before u install .... boils me yella water! Mek sense?
Rastalovich
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That`s a bold statement.
I tend to find the OS stability, whichever OS, is down to installation method and condition of applied drivers (hardware).
I tend to find the OS stability, whichever OS, is down to installation method and condition of applied drivers (hardware).
This has Vista written all over it.. not enough time spent actually fixing it and as Rast said "recycle of old code". Vista is a failure and nobody can see it all MS has done is slow the XP kernel down with more crap and then add a new shell which makes all the n00b scream "Ooooo Purdy".. Anyone say Vista is for women?
With Windows 7 months away Vista will be forgotten in seconds.
With Windows 7 months away Vista will be forgotten in seconds.
DX10 was just a marketing tool. It has hardly any use in the real gaming world as 95% of people cannot actually run it while keeping a good frame rate and not a single game has come out which is "full" DirectX 10.
What I mean by "full" is a game which cannot be hacked to work in DX10 mode in XP. Crysis = Hacked, Halo 2 needed DX10 but then people realised it was only DX9.
Vista is a useless OS as XP can do all the things it can quicker and if Microsoft think the gaps between OSs are getting smaller they will be the ones to lose out as businesses will not be able to keep up with the change. My Dad runs this company and they have yet/will not update to Vista as they have no use for it. Slows the PCs down and filled with incompatibilities what for? A new look? Wooppeee.
We all know Microsoft gets a huge percentage from businesses so they cannot work like this.
Vista is just a stepping stone between XP and 7. Though we don't know if 7 will be any decent yet.. fingers crossed.
What I mean by "full" is a game which cannot be hacked to work in DX10 mode in XP. Crysis = Hacked, Halo 2 needed DX10 but then people realised it was only DX9.
Vista is a useless OS as XP can do all the things it can quicker and if Microsoft think the gaps between OSs are getting smaller they will be the ones to lose out as businesses will not be able to keep up with the change. My Dad runs this company and they have yet/will not update to Vista as they have no use for it. Slows the PCs down and filled with incompatibilities what for? A new look? Wooppeee.
We all know Microsoft gets a huge percentage from businesses so they cannot work like this.
Vista is just a stepping stone between XP and 7. Though we don't know if 7 will be any decent yet.. fingers crossed.
Zoot
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Meh... I'm sick of Windows in general.
I'm on Ubuntu and loving it. More stable, secure, it's a better multitasker and actually does the hardware justice (To name just a few advantages). I'm not going back to Windows (no matter what version) any time soon..
The only time I boot into Windows (and XP is my choice there) is for games, home recording applications, and engineering applications..
Windows 15 will be out, and I'll say I'll still be using XP whenever I need to.
I'm on Ubuntu and loving it. More stable, secure, it's a better multitasker and actually does the hardware justice (To name just a few advantages). I'm not going back to Windows (no matter what version) any time soon..
The only time I boot into Windows (and XP is my choice there) is for games, home recording applications, and engineering applications..
Windows 15 will be out, and I'll say I'll still be using XP whenever I need to.
Rastalovich
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name='Toxcity' said:
One thing u should recognize is that, particularly larger businesses, don`t simply install XP as u would at home.
What u tend to get is a version of XP, that looks kinda like NT in it`s structure, with limited hotfixes applied to them. @ home u may be on XPSP3, in work we have something like XPSP1.97. There is alot of security stripping, app testing, by quite a fair sized department, who`s job it is to be sure patches and upd8s aren`t applied that may disable a huge amount of existing installed software.
Under agreed license terms, by/through siemens or whoever, the install is then imaged as a standard.
