Beta Testers Get First Look at Windows Vista

[valerossi]

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1841029,00.asp



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[eveR1ast]

I saw that on MS's webpage the other day when I was doing updates. Now everythings gotta change again!!!http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/6641/rantyellow1mu.gif


I'd just be happy if they could design an OS that was stable. I'm tired of crap locking up all the time on me. :comperror

[rinn]

My friend works for Microsoft and Vista is a MONSTEROUS program you need 1gig ram 10gig's of free harddisk just to run it.. so hopefully they get that bullshit down :pissed

[eveR1ast]

My friend works for Microsoft and Vista is a MONSTEROUS program you need 1gig ram 10gig's of free harddisk just to run it.. so hopefully they get that bullshit down :pissed

They would have to I think. I mean, RAM is coming down in price sure, but of all PC users, the % of them with over a GB of RAM has got to be low. Shit even the big manufacturers would have to start making systems standard with 1.5GB just so they'd run half decent.

[R1Budha]

it is not even planned for release for another two years...

by then who knows?

and it's not designed to replace XP like some think, it is designed to be the latest greatest to take advantage fully of 64bit architecture and pure processing power.
so don't worry XP will be around till 2010 is my bet.

also, you have to understand, that basically the server version and client version are modelled upon linux distros, where you can do either, depending on what you choose, but both run the same basic kernal and processes.

That is really what "longhorn" has always been about. One OS that canbe used for either client side or server side applications.

XP was the first step toward this since it used the NT based architecture (albeit a very updated and very refined version of it).
This was continued with the introduction od server 2003, and will again continue with "longhorn" (or vista or whatever they wanna call it).

server type kernals are much more secure, and offer much more possibilities than the older OS's (95/98/2000/Me)

Now that people are more used to them by using XP, and in dealing with updates and the like, it is easier to move that way.

Updates for Linux are nearly as frequent as for Windows now. You don't hear about them, beccause the average idiot doesn't use Linux, but falls into the Windows norm.
Same as APple OS's, they update the shit out of em, but who cares, it doesn't affect but 1% of the users.