Re: OT: Vista Licence

DCA <dcaMAPS860@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Vista= XP Millennium, total pants.

Yawn. Heard it all before when XP was released. I guess you've not used
it since SP1.



yep and just dumped it last week.


So what EXACTLY is the problem with Vista.
Personally, it's growing on me. Sure, very slightly more sluggish than XP
on start-up, but then it's loading itself into far more memory and once
done, its great (assuming you have adequate memory).
Surely, once you have an adequately powered PC, it's fine (and certainly
more stable than anything before it).
How can you compare it too Millennium which was minimally different from
98SE - this is totally different to XP.
Perhaps time to accept and move on.

It is very disappointing though. What's so good about it? Nothing. And
it's slow. Vista adds very little useful over XP, unlike Win2008, which has
quite a lot of new stuff over Win2003. Vista's reputation is much worse
than XP's ever was, and XP was only disliked for a short period by a few
clueless users coming straight from Win'98 who were having compatibility
problems. I saw it quickly adopted in universities and business, which I
remember thinking would not happen too quickly, due to its stupid fisher
price standard visual style.

The only really good thing about Vista is that it is widely available in
64-bit form, which has nothing to do with Vista itself, in design.

The public beta of Windows 7 comes out tomorrow. It's bound to be a lot
better. It has at least one killer feature - RDP7 performance is massively
improved, and you can even stream HD movies through it, with no latency
stuttering. while using very little CPU time. Read about it here:

http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=9284

ss.


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