Bartboy919 Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Vista gets a release date, Nov 30 for business and Jan 30 for consumer. Though I expect through black market means you could get it around the time business gets it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSkywalker Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Do you think it is serious now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Yeah its serious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Microsoft, serious? NO WAY!! Nah im goign to wait for 0-day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgg71 Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Microsoft, serious? NO WAY!! Nah im goign to wait for 0-day What's the fuss about this vista? It looks nice but it's too harware demanding. My latitude D600 has same problem in vista like in osX. No decent video driver for radeon mobility 9000. Microsoft installs one by default with 2D acceleration, still better than none, I guess. ATi has no plans to support this video card for vista. It seems you gotta have some newer card like 9600 or somethin. So i would need a new laptop. Well, I guess i'd rather run osx and xp on my old one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolishOX Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 Well almost any new OS is demanding and quite honestly, they are written poorly to implement the beautiful GUIs that are so hardware demanding... Seems in programming there is a trend... Languages get more sophisticated so you expect SOME growth... However, programmers get more lazy and don't tweak code enough. The end result is a positive while the journey to get there took 2x as long. As for support, ultimately I don't a {censored} who makes the baddest ass hardware...if they don't give support for products that are 2-3 years old, their company is {censored} in my mind. People in general only go for the most pro leet hardware and never stop to think what will that hardware do for you in the future. What will that company do to support you and your purchased product in the future. This trend will never change with uneducated consumers dropping their infinite amounts of cash down for the "gotta have it now" cutting edge. Even if you are really wealthy you should avoid this type of consumerism. Yes, it's great to stimulate the economy and further the advancement of technology but most times these incrimental increases in performance are NOT properly planned or thought out. Example: intel core duo, core 2 duo, core 2 duo 2 (quad core). Within a few months time (maybe 3-5 months tops) they have jumped. Each time they do this new waves of machines are sold and people get screwed by the companies they write their checks to. Just food for thought... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 vista for business? who wants vista on their office's crappy pc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flexuser Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 vista for business? who wants vista on their office's crappy pc? I'm sure, lord, noone. And why do we all care about this? Vista for office's sounds like an ordinary commercial project. I like Xp and i'm not going to change it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 but i'm also sure that clueless bosses will be happy to upgrade just because it's a new flashy/eyecandy/goodlooking/expensive/well presented by resellers/etc.. microsoft release. but then system administrators will cry.. garanted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiefWiggum Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 Wonder how long will it take to crack it this time.. Thought the x64 version might be harder, due to its "security lockdown" architecture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandmanfvrga Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 Good point lord_muad_dib. I am a System Administrator and my manager and I don't want to mess with Vista at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 who wants vista on their office's crappy pc? Thats all part of the M$ monopoly that extends to the bigbox PC companies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 ill be watching msdn for this hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollcage Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 vista isn't really more demanding than xp was. i compared my ram/cpu use from xp to vista, and it's REALLY close, vista uses just slightly more (but sometimes a lot less, i've attributed this to superfetch). granted aero uses a little more ram than i would think necessart, it's not completely done yet, they still need to remove the debugging code. i'm sure that will provide a boost, and the way they've been making fixes, it should be even better. i started out thinking vista was gonna be horrible, but after seeing 5840, i think they're gonna do alright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panda200x Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 Good, just enough time to save for Home Premium, I'm still waiting for the Free DVD i was promised though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
someguy22 Posted November 7, 2006 Share Posted November 7, 2006 Is that the release date for the US though??? I wanna know when it comes out in Australia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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