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Getting A Handle On Vista

Posted by Zonk on from the coming-soon-to-a-pc-near-you dept.

visination.com wrote to mention a news.com article which runs down some of the basics on MS's new Operating System. From the article: "Among the key features of Vista as it currently stands are: security enhancements, a new searching mechanism, lots of new laptop features, parental controls and better home networking. There will also be visual changes, thanks to Avalon, ranging from shiny translucent windows to icons that are tiny representations of a document itself. On the business side, Microsoft said Vista will be easier for businesses to deploy on multiple PCs and will also save costs by reducing the number of times computers will have to be rebooted."

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  1. Re:i am hoping, but will it happen by kicken18 · · Score: 1, Troll

    I agree, MS is comming out with some fantastic products and innovations recently from media centres, phones camras, to office products like Viso and project, but its harberd by security problems of its most basic softwear, operating systems. If MS can improve secutiry in this release then it would certently gain a bit more respect from the limux and mac fan boys as this is one of the main (although granted not only) causes of concern of the IT sector

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  2. Re:Is There Anyone Actually Looking Forward To Thi by DaHat · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do you really still want to be running Windows in 2006?

    Yes.

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  3. Re:Darn! by Cutting_Crew · · Score: 0, Troll

    it wasnt an error, i did that on purpose hoping someone might get it...i was just making fun at windows always having to reboot but of course i was being sarcastic. some people like to drink coffee on break..some people like to take dumps.. to each his own.

  4. Re:Will my PC run Vista? by visualight · · Score: 0, Troll

    People who defend Windows aren't really defending Windows. They are people who have a "I'm the computer guy" self image but don't actually know much beyond the locations of the wizard dialogues. If everyone around them moved to Linux they would be forced to admit to themselves how incapable they are of learning. *And* they'd no longer be "the computer guy".

    To them Linux is a personal attack.

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