Windows Vista

[stevossaxo]

installed vista this weekend, just wanted to let you guys know how amazing it is.

it is such a better o/s than xp and sooooooooooooooo much more pleasing to the eye! 10/10

:)

[DarylVTR]

or download the transformation pack for free and you have an exact look alike of vista haha..... whats so good about it then bud? I havnt used it before, quite interested whats new!

[stevossaxo]

there is this new thing called aero - which makes all the pages 3d, so you can easily switch between programs..... endless amounts of improvements buddy

[DarylVTR]

I cant see a use for that function myself but cool.... can you show us some screen shots?

[furiomike]

yeah the aero interface looks pretty cool. the only problem is that its gonna rape yer games performance unless you got a very top end pc. even then its gonna take a hit. not the end of the world though.

[MTR]

Also full of bugs, unsupported hardware and huge performance issues, 'cept that it's cool! :)

[Viper]

IT section.....

[stevossaxo]

will get some screens up tommorw guys.....

[Scott]

if some special graphics makes a great operating system then carry on...

[jk47]

theyve gone more mac style from what ive seen so it should be good ;P

[Mystic]

From what iv seen of vistain the preview before Linux XGL hit beta & after the microsoft developers had seen XGL. I think its obvious where their 'inspiration' came from.
Although the XGL team produced theres in a fraction of the time microsoft did & XGL is so much more effecient in how it utilises your hardware that you can run it on the same spec machine as windows 98 :err:

[b0t13]

vista is full of bugs and loads of crap, not secure at all and is the #1 target for hackers now.
hardware issues are all over the place and loads of performance issues

other than that it looks pretty, tho mac does and doesnt have microshit issues to come with it ;)

ill stick with xp for now, until vista is more useable.

[stevossaxo]

vista is full of bugs and loads of crap, not secure at all and is the #1 target for hackers now.
hardware issues are all over the place and loads of performance issues

other than that it looks pretty, tho mac does and doesnt have microshit issues to come with it ;)

ill stick with xp for now, until vista is more useable.

they can try, every time someone tryes to attempt an attack my symantec products let me know and block them.......

at the end of the day im pretty much the only member with vista (maybe alongside of a few others) so none of you guys can really comment untill you have tryed it......

[Scott]

Lol i bet i have used it more than you and for far longer than you have

[stevossaxo]

Lol i bet i have used it more than you and for far longer than you have

maybe, but then why didnt you state that, kinda makes a differnce to your opionion buddy, as blatently people on here have never even used it... so they cannot really comment

[Trice]

Not after offending anyone.. But Vista is a piece of crap. Microsoft Operating systems have been getting worse and worse the more stuff and functions they're putting on there. After XP Becomes completely obsolete.. I'm going to just completely move to Linux rather than what i'm doing now, hopping on XP for when i need to use certain programs. For ease rather than any real need.

[MTR]

at the end of the day im pretty much the only member with vista (maybe alongside of a few others) so none of you guys can really comment untill you have tryed it....
LOL I'm part of the m$ beta programme and deploy products for BT. I'd used Vista before you even knew it's code name. Now we are done defending ourselves ;) I will still maintain it's less than great right now, no company i know of has plans to 'upgrade' [read: sidestep] for at least 18 months, that should tell you enough. :n:

[Trice]

Oh, Added to that.. XP alone is a complete process and memory hog. From what i've heard of a mate who tested Vista out.. Vista is even worse.

[MTR]

Oh, Added to that.. XP alone is a complete process and memory hog. From what i've heard of a mate who tested Vista out.. Vista is even worse.

Vista in time will be a nice OS. It's modular approach to implementation is being adopted in many different areas. It's just not ready for a full time OS IMHO.
'Stay on the bleeding edge and get cut' might be one way to describe it. ;)

[Trice]

Microsoft will need to pay alot more attention to Vista than they did with XP IMO

[Barry123]

im going back to Win 95.

[Scott]

maybe, but then why didnt you state that, kinda makes a differnce to your opionion buddy, as blatently people on here have never even used it... so they cannot really comment

I have said a few times that i have used in since before it was even a beta:P

[Scott]

im going back to Win 95.

Not a bad shout that by the way or 98se wasnt to shabby either

[stevossaxo]

LOL I'm part of the m$ beta programme and deploy products for BT. I'd used Vista before you even knew it's code name. Now we are done defending ourselves ;) I will still maintain it's less than great right now, no company i know of has plans to 'upgrade' [read: sidestep] for at least 18 months, that should tell you enough. :n:

barely any companys upgrade windows, its because half the time there old systems wont work, no other reason, i still know mates that work for companys that are on 98, not beacause xp or vista is "crap" but they cant afford it amongst other reasons

[MTR]

barely any companys upgrade windows, its because half the time there old systems wont work, no other reason, i still know mates that work for companys that are on 98, not beacause xp or vista is "crap" but they cant afford it amongst other reasons

I was thinking 'big' corps. BT, Councils, BA etc etc :p

[Scott]

Review of vista
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/14/pricey_beta_bugger/

[Scott]

Also Microsoft are now uber cunts(if they werent already), we are paying higher prices to subsidise the american market, nice one gates

[barrett]

Lol, just get yourselves onto Mac OSX and wait for Leopard to come out. Far better than all this windows bollocks!

[rushy_23]

It probably does look amazing and have some really good features but I couldnt
buy a new Operating System until Ive read endless reviews and know the ins
and outs if you know what I mean.

XP only just meets my needs, plenty of games that dont work on it I used to
play and there are little things that really really piss me off.

I can imagine Vista would just make things worse for myself and my needs.

Nothing beats simplicity, applies to car modding and IT :p Win 98 SE!!!

http://www.winsupersite.com/images/reviews/win98se-2.gif

[Scott]

98se was good.

Read that review on vista, its frankly brilliant. I also look forward to the security review thats going to be written though i fear it may be like a phone book

[rushy_23]

:omg:
That review hasnt done anything for me Scott!

[MTR]

While 98SE worked, think back to how many times it crashed and there was no way to restart explorer half the time! XP was worlds apart for stability. That's the main problem i think, after SP1 m$ got XP so right there isn't much need for users to upgrade right now. All that Vista offers is DX10 if you are into gaming, apart from that the looks can be achieved easily with XP or Linux.

[DarylVTR]

All that Vista offers is DX10 if you are into gaming, apart from that the looks can be achieved easily with XP or Linux.

And how many graphics cards yet support DirectX 10..... hardly any unless you spend stupid amounts of cash.


Still waiting to hear more on this topic including screen shots of the real vista......

[MTR]

And how many graphics cards yet support DirectX 10..... hardly any unless you spend stupid amounts of cash.


Still waiting to hear more on this topic including screen shots of the real vista......


Hence why i said if you're into gaming.:P Enthusiasts always have the latest and greatest. The 8800 GTS with 320MB has just been released meaning DX10 is becoming more affordable already! Just need some games now! :panic:

You can get tons of screenshots from any Vista review on the web. You must have seen most of it by now??!
I'll get you started:
Tom's Hardware Guide (http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/05/31/windows_vista_uk/)
OS News (http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=16620)
WinSuperSite (http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winvista_5308_05.asp)
Bit-tech (http://www.bit-tech.net/bits/2007/01/30/Windows_Vista_review/1.html)

http://www.bit-tech.net/content_images/Windows_Vista_review/flip1.jpg

[Scott]

im sure theres a vid of it on ms site as well

[thoms04]

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[gartrell]

sorry for bringing up an old thread.

but, is it just me or is Vista the biggest bag of wank ever?



must find out my old xp disc :)

[Karl]

alot of people revert to the good old XP.

Ive just bought a machine with Vista, whether ill keep it like that forever I dont know....

[Ste]

There is only one problem with Vista.

Drivers.

That is all.

[lyndon]

Using Vista Ultimate 32bit atm, No problems, other than Teamspeak and Ventrillo don't work right due to drivers, as Ste said

EDIT : uploading some screenies for anyone who's interested


http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s305/lyndonfurio/flipthing.jpg
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s305/lyndonfurio/system.jpg
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s305/lyndonfurio/performance.jpg
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s305/lyndonfurio/start.jpg

[dannyjay]

Yes it is shit, I work in a school and everytime one gets delivered with it on it gets reverted back to XP as we all hate it. It has no extra features to XP, it just rapes your memory and thats about it.

[DarylVTR]

i still run a dual boot with vista but it is pritty crap i hardly ever use it. Sure it looks much better but it runs so much slower than xp. All those annoying security messages do my head in, tried to deactivate them and they still come up. Eats your RAM and constantly reads your HDD making your computer very slow indeed. I have 3GB of DDR2 800 Corsair RAM and it uses atleast 1GB just to run idle.

[lyndon]

Lol mine uses hardly any, And I'm using ultimate, Must be something wrong with yours

[Predator_R32]

vista is absolutely fine for me, just keep updating it and it gets better :y:

[DarylVTR]

Lol mine uses hardly any, And I'm using ultimate, Must be something wrong with yours

How do you know its using hardly any? how much is it using?

[lyndon]

Ok fair point, Just opened task manager and its using 1.5gb idle...

but CPU usage is 2% or less. Bah

It's properly quick though, never have a minutes trouble really

[gartrell]

constantly reads your HDD making your computer very slow indeed

the noise pisses me off more than anything!

when it wants to, it runs fast and good! but for no apparent reason, it'l be slow as fook... cant see how people can rave on about it!?

[B+B]

Had no probs with Ultimate (Home was useless on mine) slapped in 2gig of "readyboost" to speed it up and all was ok. couldn't get used to the sidebar so took it off.
Got xp on other 3 computers and 98se on laptop, prefer Vista.

[lyndon]

Yeah I removed the sidebar too, It hogs resources and internet :)

[DarylVTR]

So essentually all your doing is disabling vistas features to make it the same as Windows XP lol