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lizbyrd for details ;), I installed Windows Vista Pre-RC1 on my work AMD box. Let me just say, it's very very pretty. Aero is so tremendously cool.
However, like Bliss in XP, it's just fruit. If you so desire, you can turn that off, and set a bunch of things back to classic mode, so it ends up looking just like Windows 2000 with a different start menu icon. Awesome to the maxx! I'll pay AU$500 for that! It comes with a beta of IE7, which is frankly ugly as hell. It has some nice features (straight into VESA install mode, USB memory key support during install for loading drivers, and a few other things), but over all, nothing special. Except for when I tried installing Nvidia Vista x86 drivers and bricked the thing.. thankfully safe mode worked, then at reboot it detected the graphics card properly, or the "select your timezone" box which wouldn't actually let me click (had to use arrows) but aside from that, all went ok.
But see, this is the rub. As Microsoft rolls out this latest and greatest behemoth to enslave the masses, we're already heading inexorably to a point where the OS doesn't matter for most applications. It's all about the web now. AJAX is king, even if Microsoft have tried to implement it (poorly). Sure, you'll have things like Photoshop (available for Mac, Windows and Linux), and video editing suites, but in the end, Vista is just the same tired poop from redmond, but wearing a VERY nice suit.
lizbyrd for details ;), I installed Windows Vista Pre-RC1 on my work AMD box. Let me just say, it's very very pretty. Aero is so tremendously cool. However, like Bliss in XP, it's just fruit. If you so desire, you can turn that off, and set a bunch of things back to classic mode, so it ends up looking just like Windows 2000 with a different start menu icon. Awesome to the maxx! I'll pay AU$500 for that! It comes with a beta of IE7, which is frankly ugly as hell. It has some nice features (straight into VESA install mode, USB memory key support during install for loading drivers, and a few other things), but over all, nothing special. Except for when I tried installing Nvidia Vista x86 drivers and bricked the thing.. thankfully safe mode worked, then at reboot it detected the graphics card properly, or the "select your timezone" box which wouldn't actually let me click (had to use arrows) but aside from that, all went ok.
But see, this is the rub. As Microsoft rolls out this latest and greatest behemoth to enslave the masses, we're already heading inexorably to a point where the OS doesn't matter for most applications. It's all about the web now. AJAX is king, even if Microsoft have tried to implement it (poorly). Sure, you'll have things like Photoshop (available for Mac, Windows and Linux), and video editing suites, but in the end, Vista is just the same tired poop from redmond, but wearing a VERY nice suit.
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Date: 2006-08-30 10:14 pm (UTC)Hubby recently had to upgrade due to his motherboard carking it. So naturally he gets a board with SATA and a nice spankin' SATA hard drive. No problems installing windows because the BIOS of the board reports it as IDE to windows xp installation.
Needing to load drivers for SATA (and other devices) from a usb key or optical drive is soooooooooo 2004. As usual, microsoft caught up too late. The motherboard manufacturers have already made allowances for their incompetence.
I paid for a copy of xp home for my desktop and got one 'free' with my laptop. I don't need or want Vista. Once xp is no longer supported I'll be going linux and so will every other machine in my house. I guess linux has until then to become usable for the desktop.
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Date: 2006-08-31 02:27 am (UTC)so from what i found on the web, vista kinda looks like OS X. all aqua-ish. do you have any screenshots?