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squirrellydw:


--- Quote from: Tailgunner on February 01, 2007, 11:12:20 am ---No rush to get it here, I'll wait till I buy a new system or they've released the first service pack for it.

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I heard the first service pack will be out the 2nd half of 07.  M$ knows people and companies like to see the first service pack, this tells them it's "READY".  However this was really only true in NT and maybe XP.  Service packs don't mean what they use to anymore.

ChadTower:


NT wasn't ready until NT4... NT3.51 was a ---smurfing--- nightmare that cost a lot of companies a lot of money.  It never worked properly and most of the dev organizations that tried to migrate large scale apps onto NT3.51 never got it right (because the OS wasn't right) and lost large amounts of capital in the failed efforts.

Tailgunner:


--- Quote from: squirrellydw on February 02, 2007, 10:03:57 am ---I heard the first service pack will be out the 2nd half of 07.  M$ knows people and companies like to see the first service pack, this tells them it's "READY".  However this was really only true in NT and maybe XP.  Service packs don't mean what they use to anymore.

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There's still bound to be security holes in it that need fixing, and I want to see how the DRM sillyness plays out before taking the plunge. I figure M$ has presented their vision of the future, now it's a matter of seeing how the users respond and what M$ does to keep them happy.

I gave up living on the bleeding edge of computer tech a long time ago, my current computer is going on 3 years old and I don't see a "killer app" in Vista that I can't live without at the present. This box is past the point that it still has any room left to be upgraded, but it still does everything I use it for just fine. That'll change sooner or later, but in the meantime I'll keep chugging along with it and let others have their turn being guinea pigs. ;)



danny_galaga:



i only got xp because i needed a new computer, otherwise id probably still be on win98! i think this machine should last me another 5 years or so...

DrewKaree:


--- Quote from: danny_galaga on February 03, 2007, 04:00:19 am ---i only got xp because i needed a new computer, otherwise id probably still be on win98! i think this machine should last me another 5 years or so...
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...and I think danny is like many people.  I no longer play PC games (other than the stupid flash games people throw up as time-killers), and really only use my PC for surfing the net.  There's some extraneous stuff like ripping music or movies that I do, and some basic word-processing, but other than the time it takes a newer system to do these few "extras", I could easily get by with a 1 GHz system to do these things on my day-to-day system.  Heck, I'm betting I could do with half that processing power! 

What will Vista add, security-wise, that a company couldn't get with XP (or 2000)?  I'm not sure what Vista's security measures have added, so I'm wondering.  Seems like MS often makes the defaults less secure so things work "out of the box" for people.  Is this the case with Vista, or have they gone in the opposite direction and locked everything down by default?

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