Windows Vista

[Fit of Rage]

My roommate, the computer engineer he is, was describing this to me (the 3-d feature) and it sounded like a pretty cool upgrade.

So far, looking at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/ it's not exactly what I anticipated. Anyone think it will be worth it to upgrade?

Sarien, you can keep your OSX comments to yourself.

[Reclusion]

The only thing that webpage really hit on were the graphical elements.

I want to know that if they changed something about how well Windows works.

[Dameon Angell]

Yeah, personally, I'm not so into the 3D windows idea. I'd rather them work on streamlining and refining the current XP-style than jumping into a whole new look, again.

[Subjugation]

Agree with what Dameon said and would add that I hope they give you more options for customization without having to use 3rd party programs like StyleXP. More themes, icons, more sounds (although it's easy enough to dl'd movie clips, convert to wav then add them)...etc.

[Dameon Angell]

Lol... good point. Customization would be a great thing to add to the new Windows. If they get that done, with the 3D, I won't be mad.

[Miku19]

I rofled when Peter Moore talked at E3, what he said was something like: "Now, in Windows Vista, games and programs are even more easily accessible, because they can be launched straight from the Start Menu."

...lol

[Mulkero]

They can??

[Miku19]

Yeah liek omgz it's teh biggest thing since the start menu in w95!

[tugs]

microsoft is in it to make money. not to make a bigger better interface, and not to make a stable OS. Which means that they generally steal their interface ideas from Mac, and their stability ideas from unix. (stupid generalization :P)

my real question, though: when you turn on your machine, do you do it to use windows?
no, the OS is there to get you to the good stuff: subspace.

It'll be worth the upgrade in my mind if there's an app i want to run that requires it.

[Kolar]

It'll be worth the upgrade in my mind if there's an app i want to run that requires it.

That's pretty silly. It will be worth the upgrade (and I dont mean actually buying their software) if it is more stable and has more/better security. If not Linux is the way to go for workstations.

[DoTheFandango]

When Apple and M$ merge in 2059 we'll see who remains on top.

[Doc Flabby]

I rofled when Peter Moore talked at E3, what he said was something like: "Now, in Windows Vista, games and programs are even more easily accessible, because they can be launched straight from the Start Menu."

...lol

Thats why i use the windows 98 theme in xp

98 > xp for UI

microsoft intentially broke 98 to get people to upgrade. Don't be surprised when they do the same thing to XP.

http://www.frankprovo.com/win98ie6filesproblem.htm

A 60-second or greater delay in web page transitions
60-second delay or more before you can use Windows Explorer after moving, deleting, or copying one or more files within Windows Explorer
A 60-second or greater delay in being able to click on icons or opening programs after emptying the Recycle Bin
The windows for programs that you close remaining visible or partially visible for upwards of 60-seconds at a time.
System locking up altogether
Any combination of the above

any of the above sound familier....All of these problems fixed by installing the old ie5 dlls. IE6 breaks windows 98. Having used this fix personally i can say windows 98 hasnt crashed once after installing it. So many problems disappear with this fix its scary.

I think ie7 will break XP to get everyone to upgrade.

[WuTang420]

id be happy to just see some updated drivers and compatibility. i dont know about the whole 3d thing due to the overhead it would put on older machines, not even necessarily older, just with 64Mb or less video mem.

by the way a good place for drivers: www.driverguide.com
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[Jason]

as soon as i can possibly afford it i'm getting a new macbook or maybe a desktop unit with the new intel duo core. i'm just completely and utterly burnt out on windows OS'es

[Edify]

Apparently the Windows Firewall for Vista won't suck as much?
..anything's better than the current version of it, imo.
They had a convention at my uni and my friends went.