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Did you find about Vista just now? I knew when it was Longhorn. I had an alpha copy ![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/grayscale_happy.gif)
Necro, I assume you've tried Vista?
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Necro, I assume you've tried Vista?
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I attended a lecture by a Microsoft representative about .NET programming and Vista, and coming thursday there's another one on security, error trapping, the new GUI and file indexing in Vista. It's all pretty cool stuff, but I still haven't seen anything that's a fundamental improvement over WinXP...
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Hardware accelerated GUI? As 3fg mentioned, that's something Windows has had to catch up a lot with! It's more than looking pretty, if you offload the GUI tasks to the GPU rather than hogging the CPU then that's a pretty decent improvement.Timendus wrote:... but I still haven't seen anything that's a fundamental improvement over WinXP...
Some of the major Vista features have been delayed/removed in any case - The oh-so-sexy Monad is available seperately in any case, and WinFS is getting further and further away.
The improvements to Explorer are pretty decent - the breadcrumbed address bar looks good, and the more document-centric browsing/media handling looks great.
I tried M7, but didn't like it and thought I'd wait until it was a lil' further along.currahee wrote:Did you find about Vista just now? I knew when it was Longhorn. I had an alpha copy
Necro, I assume you've tried Vista?
There are LOTS of improvements over XP: anti-spyware, libraries, IE7, WMP11, media center, lots more administrative options, etc...
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That's true, but on my laptop for instance, with it's crappy SiS integrated video card (and a Pentium IV CPU) I really don't think that's going to be an improvementbenryves wrote:Hardware accelerated GUI? As 3fg mentioned, that's something Windows has had to catch up a lot with! It's more than looking pretty, if you offload the GUI tasks to the GPU rather than hogging the CPU then that's a pretty decent improvement.Timendus wrote:... but I still haven't seen anything that's a fundamental improvement over WinXP...
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Oh, nice, more power to the scriptkiddies...Some of the major Vista features have been delayed/removed in any case - The oh-so-sexy Monad is available seperately in any case
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THat's what I don't like, the 3D requirements is too high. For those with a crappy gfx card, its gonna look the same as XP so that's why I don't feel all that pro-Vista.
See, in my case I have a Mobility Radeon X600 right? But it only has 64MB of Video memory, and it eats up 64MB more from the system. The high tier requires over 200MB of video memory whicih means the Intel GMA 900 can run it perfectly while mine can't just because the Intel has more video memory than I do.
And that is complete bull.
See, in my case I have a Mobility Radeon X600 right? But it only has 64MB of Video memory, and it eats up 64MB more from the system. The high tier requires over 200MB of video memory whicih means the Intel GMA 900 can run it perfectly while mine can't just because the Intel has more video memory than I do.
And that is complete bull.
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Agreed. There will be a graceful fallback to a Luna-like, but that doesn't help you much.Timendus wrote:That's true, but on my laptop for instance, with it's crappy SiS integrated video card (and a Pentium IV CPU) I really don't think that's going to be an improvementI mean; it's pretty relative how much this will improve things. And besides, they should've added this (as an option) 5 years ago if you ask me.
Monad does have security options, and by default will not run any scripts at all, if that is your concern. I've set mine to the second-lowest, which still prompts if I try to run a script downloaded from Outlook/MSN/IE, much like running EXEs does under Windows XP.Oh, nice, more power to the scriptkiddies...
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You can't, not yet. There is no public beta. Unless you have a MSDN subsription, of course -- but for the rest of us, we'll have to wait until they release the public beta. Hopefully, like VS2005, you'll be able to order a free DVD from MS after registration.gangsta wrote:how would you dl Windows Vista bta 5270?