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Post by Gifford on Aug 7, 2005 17:36:31 GMT -5
I'm almost done downloading the beta of windows vista here. has anybody used it yet?
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Post by globe on Aug 7, 2005 17:52:38 GMT -5
I'm almost done downloading the beta of windows vista here. has anybody used it yet? a boy i work with has. i wasnt listening to a word he was saying when he was telling me about it though, was to busy reading the football pages in the paper ;D let is know what you think of it gifford 8- |
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Post by Gifford on Aug 8, 2005 18:49:43 GMT -5
i got it running now. the setup is definetly alot easier than other versions of windows, all you do is put in the product key and what drive you want it loaded onto then it just installs, instead of asking you every five minutes for some setting.
now it is a beta program, so i understand that its not gonna be as robust and reliable as xp. the new graphics system is pretty good and does a good job of scaling to your system. I have a ati radeon card, and the drivers supplied by ati wouldnt work, so i had to use the integrated video on my motherboard. the start menu is better. and you now have a my games folder along with the my music and pictures. theres now the much improved search function. however, i didnt find my file i was looking for. internet explorer is much much better and has all kinds of cool graphics and animations in it, it also provides support for rss and xml feeds.
the problems with it are that it feels like an update to windows xp, when its supposed to be a completely new os (many of the same graphics and programs from xp are still here). also very few programs will run on it. i uninstalled it cause i need to use programs (itunes, tv tuner, games) which wouldnt run on vista.
its an interesting new windows, but not the complete overhaul and revolution that i expected. looks like i may have to move to a mac
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Post by globe on Aug 8, 2005 18:53:30 GMT -5
i got it running now. the setup is definetly alot easier than other versions of windows, all you do is put in the product key and what drive you want it loaded onto then it just installs, instead of asking you every five minutes for some setting. now it is a beta program, so i understand that its not gonna be as robust and reliable as xp. the new graphics system is pretty good and does a good job of scaling to your system. I have a ati radeon card, and the drivers supplied by ati wouldnt work, so i had to use the integrated video on my motherboard. the start menu is better. and you now have a my games folder along with the my music and pictures. theres now the much improved search function. however, i didnt find my file i was looking for. internet explorer is much much better and has all kinds of cool graphics and animations in it, it also provides support for rss and xml feeds. the problems with it are that it feels like an update to windows xp, when its supposed to be a completely new os (many of the same graphics and programs from xp are still here). also very few programs will run on it. i uninstalled it cause i need to use programs (itunes, tv tuner, games) which wouldnt run on vista. its an interesting new windows, but not the complete overhaul and revolution that i expected. looks like i may have to move to a mac have you had to update it yet? ;D seriously, next machine i get, i think its gonna be a mac too. |
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Post by Gifford on Aug 9, 2005 10:20:25 GMT -5
i got it running now. the setup is definetly alot easier than other versions of windows, all you do is put in the product key and what drive you want it loaded onto then it just installs, instead of asking you every five minutes for some setting. now it is a beta program, so i understand that its not gonna be as robust and reliable as xp. the new graphics system is pretty good and does a good job of scaling to your system. I have a ati radeon card, and the drivers supplied by ati wouldnt work, so i had to use the integrated video on my motherboard. the start menu is better. and you now have a my games folder along with the my music and pictures. theres now the much improved search function. however, i didnt find my file i was looking for. internet explorer is much much better and has all kinds of cool graphics and animations in it, it also provides support for rss and xml feeds. the problems with it are that it feels like an update to windows xp, when its supposed to be a completely new os (many of the same graphics and programs from xp are still here). also very few programs will run on it. i uninstalled it cause i need to use programs (itunes, tv tuner, games) which wouldnt run on vista. its an interesting new windows, but not the complete overhaul and revolution that i expected. looks like i may have to move to a mac have you had to update it yet? ;D seriously, next machine i get, i think its gonna be a mac too. it actually wont let you update yet. it sucks because when i install a new version of windows xp, i do the update on windows site and it installs all the drivers for you hardware |
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Post by thebluesgnr on Aug 9, 2005 18:15:58 GMT -5
i got it running now. the setup is definetly alot easier than other versions of windows, all you do is put in the product key and what drive you want it loaded onto then it just installs, instead of asking you every five minutes for some setting. now it is a beta program, so i understand that its not gonna be as robust and reliable as xp. the new graphics system is pretty good and does a good job of scaling to your system. I have a ati radeon card, and the drivers supplied by ati wouldnt work, so i had to use the integrated video on my motherboard. the start menu is better. and you now have a my games folder along with the my music and pictures. theres now the much improved search function. however, i didnt find my file i was looking for. internet explorer is much much better and has all kinds of cool graphics and animations in it, it also provides support for rss and xml feeds. the problems with it are that it feels like an update to windows xp, when its supposed to be a completely new os (many of the same graphics and programs from xp are still here). also very few programs will run on it. i uninstalled it cause i need to use programs (itunes, tv tuner, games) which wouldnt run on vista. its an interesting new windows, but not the complete overhaul and revolution that i expected. looks like i may have to move to a mac have you had to update it yet? ;D seriously, next machine i get, i think its gonna be a mac too. have you tried ubuntu linux yet? ;D |
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Post by Gifford on Aug 9, 2005 18:48:30 GMT -5
have you had to update it yet? ;D seriously, next machine i get, i think its gonna be a mac too. have you tried ubuntu linux yet? ;D i have a dual boot set up on my laptop with red hat and windows xp on a dual boot. i'm hoping that when this new x86 OSX tiger comes out, that it'll run on any processor, cause then i'll just ditch windows alltoghter |
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Post by koeman4 on Aug 19, 2005 21:29:30 GMT -5
i heard a few folk that couldnt even get vista too boot up
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