behind the scenes of windows vista

[Red Squirrel]

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9590_22-6133491.html?tag=nl.e589

Interesting stuff in there. Comes to show the big process making an OS really is.

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[MikeDB]

Thats quite cool.

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[tw2]

yup ,oh its making it alright ,lol
but you might just want to take a good read at this
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
its long but worth the read if your thinking about getting Vista
i did the beta test on it well now they have gone behind and changed a few things



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[syb]

Okay, I read like half of that article and was like WTF!!! I had stoped beliveing that Microsoft was evil and everything but now I just think they are evil agian. I must say i don't think i'll ever want to upgrade.

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[richardj]

I installed a program that gives you all the Vista icons, wallpaper, sounds bootscreens & such.

You can install only what you want.

The Vista bootscreen is crap. A black screen with a little globe that says VISTA_-woopie

I changed my bootscreen to the Enterprise shooting phasers & the progress bar says "ENGAGE"--LOL

The "sidebar" is widgets, which wouldn't work right.

I can get widgets anywhere.

The sounds are very subdued. You can barely hear them.

I like the icons though.

Also, I read that it won't support certain older hardware.

And it costs like a gazzillion dollars for the system.

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[Red Squirrel]

Yeah I have no plans to upgrade to it, at least not before I build a quantum computer or buy out Cray.

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