#SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele 5110 Posts 3/03
Posted - Feb 7 2009 : 3:12AM
Anybody trying out the Windows 7 beta? I've been playing around with it for about a week. It's pretty slick. It's only done one minor, slightly buggy thing; other than that, it has looked and worked like a finished product.
Did anyone ever own a PC up to standards enough to run the "Aero" Vista? I know I don't/haven't. Who builds a computer around the operating system? That seems backwards to me.
The idea of yet another Windows incarnation makes my blood run cold. There was a time when I thought MS was a good company and successive versions were actually advances; but now I just pray to don't fuck things up even worse than they already are. Good case in point: OFFICE. I thought they hit the high water mark with the 2000 version. After that, it seems like they're just dragging me down with their new "features" that I have to work-around or disable.
#SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele 5110 Posts 3/03
Posted - Feb 7 2009 : 2:28PM
I just put it on a spare hard drive and swap it and the drive that has my XP installation as needed. I think you can also leave both drives connected and use your BIOS to decide which drive to try to boot first, but I haven't tried that.
I can only speak for myself but the biggest problem I've had with Vista is compatibility on some hardware. Other than that, it's been really smooth. I can't remember the last time it crashed. I've only installed it 4 times in a couple of years. I would have reinstalled XP a bunch of times in that time. This last time, I didn't have to reinstall it. I just did because things were all cluttered up.
#SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele 5110 Posts 3/03
Posted - Feb 7 2009 : 8:50PM
It's not as if there are going to be six different boxes on the shelf at the store. Basically there's one version for home, and one for business. Either of those can be upgraded to Ultimate as an add-on. Other than that, there's a cheapie version for those $300 toy laptops, an Enterprise version that's only going to be available through volume licensing, and a Third World version. Article. So, for an average user, it isn't really that different from XP, which came in Home and Professional, and had an add-on package of doo-dads that you could buy.Where do you see that?
Stacked 14 - review by Captain Jack
Posted - Feb 7 2009 : 3:12AM
