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ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on February 10, 2007, 01:09:45 pm ---No, don't misunderstand.  It's dead because upcoming directx10 games aren't going to run (or run as well) on xp apparently.  M$ can support a os until the cows come home, but once the first killer app that only runs in vista is released it is essentually dead as the masses will all migrate to vista.  That is apparently sooner than later. 

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Many, many of those masses of machine are in corporations, and those corporations will never give a crap what version of DirectX goes with what OS.  It takes corporations years to migrate to a new OS.  A lot of them still haven't migrated to XP.

Howard_Casto:
Yes but the standard os isn't what corportations use, it's what users use.

So the two points you two just made are rather invalid (wine doesn't let you play games and users play games, users don't use the same os as corps so it doesn't matter).

Regardless, that wasn't my point.  Xp is at the end of it's development cycle (does that wording suit your nit-pickers?) And they aren't even close to having wine or reactos support everything xp can do.  Now vista adds a whole new slew of commands and api layers.  By the time wine or Ros are caught up with xp, vista will be at the end of it's life cycle.

And since I stated above that if you want to run the latest games and apps you are going to have to eventually upgrade to vista, it doesn't matter if either of these apps get better over time as then the latest stuff will be old, thus defeating the purpose.

So the only way you could use either as a vista replacement is if xp support is brought up to 100% (or as close to it as possible) and then they move onto vista and get its support up to 100% before vista's lifecycle is over.  Like I said, don't hold your breath.

Santoro:
I'm with Zero_Hour.  I like Vista.  It has some warts, but all and all it's a good, reliable and modern OS. 

I blogged about it a few weeks ago.  Since I wrote this I have installed it on an old Athlon XP 2200+, and a new Lenovo X60 laptop.  Each install was smoother than any XP setup I had ever done. 

Here's what I wrote:


--- Quote ---I have been running Windows Vista for a month or so as my main OS. I have to say that overall I truly like it.

The computer press has been down-talking Vista lately because it doesn’t have dramatically new functionality. I generally agree with that sentiment, but it’s not that black and white for me.

As someone who spends 10+ hours a day at my PC, I find that Vista just ‘feels’ nicer. The Aero interface provides subtle but effective feedback on what is going on. The high-res icons are more scalable and legible for my sad middle-aged eyes. If XP was like wearing sneakers, Vista is like wearing slippers.  (For further comparison, Windows 98 was like wearing lead shoes.)

I am running the “Released To Manufacturing” or RTM version. I subscribed to Microsoft TechNet Direct in order to get it, along with test licenses for most other MS products, including Office, Windows Server, SQL Server, and Exchange Server. You get ten license keys for most products as long as you agree to use them ‘for evaluation purposes.’ This is an incredible value if you tinker with MS products at all. The software is not time-bombed or crippled in any way and is certified as “Windows Genuine” so it can get full security patches.

Certainly compatibility is an issue. MS has a tool to evaluate your machine to see if you can benefit from Vista. Make sure to use it.

If your PC and apps can handle it and you can afford the license, I think you will be happy running Vista.


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Of course it's not MacOS or Linux, but it ain't supposed to be those things.  And I probably wouldn't drop 3-400$ on a copy just to have the latest and greatest.  But if you have an opportunity to get it free or cheap, I say do it.  All the small improvements add up to a much better OS. 

johnm160:
I ran vista for about two weeks before I went back to XP. The security warnings were annoying but in the end I did not have it there long enough to look into turning them off.

Stability was fine untill i loaded the norton 360 beta on it....then all hell broke loose  :banghead: So off it came untill there are some stable apps for it.


Oh and don't even get me started on the lack of print drivers for vista..... WOW

Santoro:

--- Quote from: johnm160 on February 10, 2007, 09:08:11 pm ---Oh and don't even get me started on the lack of print drivers for vista..... WOW

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Yeah, I have to agree on this one.  A big F.U. to HP, how hard can it be to get these things out on time?  You only had like five years notice this thing was coming out.

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