windows vista [Archive] - Saxperience

Matt_e

1st February 2007, 21:33

has anyone got it, is it anygood, theres someone selling it on ebay for £63 for the home premium, do you reckon its legit, other shops are selling it for £150, also can you only use it on 1 pc

James

1st February 2007, 21:34

Going to get it tommorow probally... I'll let you know. :)

smartgavin

1st February 2007, 21:36

For £63 I very much doubt it would be legit, I think is 150 for an xp upgrade to vista. the actual package is £200 and something I think

furiomike

1st February 2007, 21:40

i seen it for about £62 from home premium, home basic is about £5 less. thats completely legit too.

Matt_e

1st February 2007, 21:40

For £63 I very much doubt it would be legit, I think is 150 for an xp upgrade to vista. the actual package is £200 and something I think

depends which package you go for, you can get it as little as £99

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1380219860.117036601 5@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccecaddkdffdgmlcflgceggdhhmdgmk.0&page=ProductList&category_oid=-31567&show_all=true

Barry123

1st February 2007, 21:41

getting it for £20 geniune copy.

bow down.

Matt_e

1st February 2007, 21:42

getting it for £20 geniune copy.

bow down.

where from? get me one:hug:

Barry123

1st February 2007, 21:46

no. :)

Barry123

1st February 2007, 21:47

basically my friend works for MS.

so any software they want is £20 a piece.

I got pro xp and office pro for £40 :y:

furiomike

1st February 2007, 21:48

dont uni's give it away free?

anyway, dont get it from pcworld. ebuyer have it for under 70 quid, and i think i got an email from komplett saying they did it for about 62

James

1st February 2007, 21:48

basically my friend works for MS.

so any software they want is £20 a piece.

I got pro xp and office pro for £40 :y:

I got it for free :clapping:

Barry123

1st February 2007, 21:51

legit though???

Matt_e

1st February 2007, 21:52

basically my friend works for MS.

so any software they want is £20 a piece.

I got pro xp and office pro for £40 :y:

so ultimate vista is 20

Steve

1st February 2007, 22:14

looks good, got hacked within a few hours of its release!.... so i read :homme:

Robbo

1st February 2007, 22:23

soon though arnt they going to stop support for XP so basically your going to have to upgrade to vista??

fredjudd

1st February 2007, 22:24

the cheap versions are vista with differen font....

proper vista is the shit

Barry123

1st February 2007, 22:26

soon though arnt they going to stop support for XP so basically your going to have to upgrade to vista??

judging by previous versions.... yeah they probably will.

furiomike

1st February 2007, 22:29

soon though arnt they going to stop support for XP so basically your going to have to upgrade to vista??
MS say they support an operating system for about 5 years after release. XP is already 6 years. so yes, within a few months. just means no more updates or new versions of IE or WMP etc. the only big thing as far as im concerned is they might not update direct X for xp anymore. so im not sure you can use DX10, which vista comes with. games will use DX10 features to make them look nice, and the later most games will require DX10 to run at all...

marv

1st February 2007, 22:31

recently bought a New pc with the Vista Upgrade chucked in. Jus gotta pay £11 for postage

furiomike

1st February 2007, 22:33

recently bought a New pc with the Vista Upgrade chucked in. Jus gotta pay £11 for postage
thats a heavy DVD. or a large box.

Andy

1st February 2007, 22:46

what are actually the new feauture on vista

furiomike

1st February 2007, 22:53

what are actually the new feauture on vista
makes yer computer slower.

its hard to describe. best to just go to the vista website and have a look. looks nice and should be very user friendly.

Scott

1st February 2007, 23:46

Vista does have some rahter nifty features like the extra system memory dongles etc...

However I wont be touching it with a very large pole for the next year until the most major security loop holes and bugs are "maybe" fixed by MS.

Also a good measure of how unimportant it is to upgrade at the moment is the lack of real big businesses that are taking it up. Infact none of the enterprise or corporate companies i manage have any plans at all the have a major vista roll out, all are sticking with XP

MTR

1st February 2007, 23:49

As above.
Install any new OS in under six months of release and you'll get burned; for anything you name...speed, compatibility, security etc etc.

stevossaxo

1st February 2007, 23:52

i will be buying it the weekend, i cant wait for it... looks brill,

stevossaxo

1st February 2007, 23:53

has anyone got it, is it anygood, theres someone selling it on ebay for £63 for the home premium, do you reckon its legit, other shops are selling it for £150, also can you only use it on 1 pc

thats for the academic version upgrade mate

Mark

2nd February 2007, 00:26

Vista does have some rahter nifty featuresIf you get pulled into the MS media machine you'll know that IE7 brought us pioneering features like "tabbed browsing", integrated search bar and better standards support. Hooray!
(Hang on, didn't all the other browsers do that already?)

It looks a lot better than XP (Vista has more eye candy that's for sure), although Mac users have had most of this stuff for years. Where are the cool features that we were promised? Oh yeah, they were pulled out because it was taking too long (otherwise it would have been released in 2009 probably).

Read between the lines. Vista is the most secure version of Windows yet! (That's not the most secure operating system, just the most secure version of Windows).

The licensing terms are a sobering read too. :(

Personally, I don't mind much what my operating system looks like, I judge it on it's performance. Unless I'm forced to, I won't be touching Vista.

Predator_R32

2nd February 2007, 00:28

im waiting about 6 weeks then getting a copy of one :y:

all of the glitches and problems will have been sorted by then

Viper

2nd February 2007, 00:29

you can get it fairly cheaply from:

http://overclockers.co.uk/

Scott

2nd February 2007, 00:36

If you get pulled into the MS media machine you'll know that IE7 brought us pioneering features like "tabbed browsing", integrated search bar and better standards support. Hooray!
(Hang on, didn't all the other browsers do that already?)

It looks a lot better than XP (Vista has more eye candy that's for sure), although Mac users have had most of this stuff for years. Where are the cool features that we were promised? Oh yeah, they were pulled out because it was taking too long (otherwise it would have been released in 2009 probably).

Read between the lines. Vista is the most secure version of Windows yet! (That's not the most secure operating system, just the most secure version of Windows).

The licensing terms are a sobering read too. :(

Personally, I don't mind much what my operating system looks like, I judge it on it's performance. Unless I'm forced to, I won't be touching Vista.

Very very true as always Mark

Baz

2nd February 2007, 00:37

free from college when i cba to get the disk

Scott

2nd February 2007, 00:37

im waiting about 6 weeks then getting a copy of one :y:

all of the glitches and problems will have been sorted by then

i seriously hope your kidding, have the past 5 years not taught you anything on MS software!?!?

Viper

2nd February 2007, 00:38

ive got a mac :A: :A: :hug: :hug: :y: :y: ;) ;) :panic: :panic: :clapping: :clapping: :drink: :drink: :afro: :afro:

Predator_R32

2nd February 2007, 00:39

hehehe, well thats what i was told to do, :y:

think i need a MAC too :)

Barry123

2nd February 2007, 00:42

The camera on the Mac and the associated software is the only reason I could find to switch to a Mac, So im getting one at summer.

http://photos-440.ak.facebook.com/ip002/v61/111/4/223802508/n223802508_378440_2583.jpg

Predator_R32

2nd February 2007, 00:43

good man ads might follow you on that one :)

steveo21

2nd February 2007, 00:51

When XP was released was alot of problems with viruses etc at the start, wasn't really sorted until SP1 was released, Vista im sure will be much the same but only with have alot of problems with software compatibility...

srcnix

2nd February 2007, 08:59

I think Vista will be a break through for MS and will be the only MS OS I may run ;)

mattsteR11

2nd February 2007, 10:37

got it for free on my other pc, but i dont like it one bit!

srcnix

2nd February 2007, 10:38

saxodan

2nd February 2007, 12:06

Will get it when I buy my laptop for uni, should be less buggy by then and pc specs will be a little better for it

Predator_R32

2nd February 2007, 12:12

looks like predator (not me lol)

http://photos-440.ak.facebook.com/ip002/v61/111/4/223802508/n223802508_378440_2583.jpg

Delboy75

2nd February 2007, 12:21

Well im sticking with xp.
Maybe switch to vista in a year or two, but at the mo im more than happy with xp, i don't see the point in changing it as it does exactly what i want.

Anyway vista will be full of problems, like xp was when that first came out.

Bri_vtr

2nd February 2007, 14:31

Bill gates said XP will be supported till 2011 so no worries there

I will be getting vista as soon as its available via torrent ;)

Store

2nd February 2007, 15:16

been available via torrent since october 2006

AdamVTRUK

2nd February 2007, 19:36

Why don't people try a user friendly linux like winlinux, its a Linux based operating system with all the windows goodies and the best thing yet its legally free! and another good thing its near enough security tight apart from the od virus or 2

furiomike

3rd February 2007, 14:44

Bill gates said XP will be supported till 2011 so no worries there
lol no i dont think so. but it might not be far off that. i think maybe for the next 2 years. but then again i have windows xp mce 2005 so they should keep supporting that for a few years if what they are goin on about is right.

holland7047

3rd February 2007, 16:47

i got a laptop with a free vista upgrade anyone know how i go about it

stevossaxo

8th February 2007, 14:28

Clouds_mate

8th February 2007, 14:41

temped for Vista now might give it a go

Bri_vtr

8th February 2007, 15:22

lol no i dont think so. but it might not be far off that. i think maybe for the next 2 years. but then again i have windows xp mce 2005 so they should keep supporting that for a few years if what they are goin on about is right.

Well thats what he said to the bbc mate :)

Scott

8th February 2007, 16:01

everyone is saying its full of bugs / security threats etc etc - how do you know this? just because previous vesions have had doesnt mean this one will, think about it - im sure they will have put all the xp updates security etc into vista, so unless you have vista you cant really comment.

however i will be installing it this weekend on mine so ill let you know what i think

How do i know this? I have used it and the huge number of reports from ALL the major security companies all around the world highlighting the huge glaring holes in it.

Even if they have looked at the current holes in XP and thought about them its a whole new OS with those holes and new holes in it. XP is full of holes as it is.

Also heres just one of the huge holes vista is already know to have http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6320865.stm

DarylVTR

8th February 2007, 18:32

The first thing you need to realise is its a microsoft product which means its going to have error's / bugs!

I would go for MAC as i know they are very decent machines but they arnt much good for gaming but excellent for media so i have heard.

DarylVTR

8th February 2007, 18:50

also if you want to make it look tarty like windows vista

jus download Windows Vista Tranformation Pack 6 for Windows XP

most visuals are included in the package and its a free download thats what i have done!! It looks abit like this..... but you can choose and change loads of settings!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v707/darylrese/vistatranspack.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v707/darylrese/vistatranspack2.jpg

you can download it HERE (http://www.download.com/Vista-Transformation-Pack/3000-2086_4-10631174.html?tag=lst-0-1)

JackoSaxAppeal

9th February 2007, 17:38

Deleted account

Clouds_mate

9th February 2007, 21:10

good work Daryl, just gaven it a go ....

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a336/DannyBoyLeckie/09%20PC%20Related/Screen%20Shots/untitled.jpg

Matt_e

9th February 2007, 21:19

how did you get the place you live for the weather every time i put my post code in, it said it couldnt find it

Clouds_mate

9th February 2007, 21:20

i typed..

Wakefield, England...

Close down the searchbox and start again...

saxodan

10th February 2007, 17:26

vista theme looks niiice

does it affect performance?

Matt_e

10th February 2007, 17:39

not really

DarylVTR

11th February 2007, 11:11

No problem guys...nah i havnt noticed a performance decrease! I think it looks much better! The sidebar is quite handy, shows news, weather, time, calendar, CPU and RAM usage, Wireless network signal, System running time, A built in media player.... all sorts!

And best part is the transformation pack is free :) - Not a huge point in getting Vista yet.... it doesnt support alot of software drivers yet, so you may have problems with your hardware like i did with RC1