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Windows Vista To Come In 7 Flavors
Dionne writes "Microsoft is really milking it with this one: According to an Ars Technica report, there will be 7 versions of Windows Vista: Starter Edition, Home Basic Edition, Home Premium Edition, Professional Edition, Small
Business Edition, Enterprise Edition, and Ultimate Edition." From the article: "Windows Vista Ultimate Edition is a superset of both Vista Home Premium and Vista Pro Edition, so it includes all of the features of both of those product versions, plus adds Game Performance Tweaker with integrated gaming experiences, a Podcast creation utility (under consideration, may be cut from product), and online "Club" services (exclusive access to music, movies, services and preferred customer care) and other offerings (also under consideration, may be cut from product)."
Two of these three is ALWAYS missing:
Secure
Clean
Workable
Good Pricing
Value for money
Buddy? That's FIVE... count 'em... 5 (five)
Show this to your friends and family that don't know what a real hacker is
Unstable & Stable.
Although Stable will probably be realised sometime after, around 2017.
I don't think that Windows Fanboys exist. Everyone I've ever known that uses Windows seemed to barely tolerate it because THEY HAVE NO CHOICE in the matter. They either have to use it because that's what's available at work... can't justify spending money on a Mac right now (even a Mini)... or don't know about / or REFUSE to use Linux.
I think these pro-Windows comments are written by MS employees.
Seriously. Isn't it possible that MS might be encouraging its worker-bees to spend some of that hour or two that's lost to websurfing... to post pro-windows comments in prominent forums on the web?
It's free advertising AND it pisses off the Linux zealots.
And just to stay on-topic... 7 version of Vista? What are they smoking? When you provide someone with that many versions, they're always going to think that they got the "wrong" one and resent you.
My first post was marked Troll by a thoughtless mod. Instant Bad Karma.
True, you won't get a BSOD on XP, ever, because it reboots automatically on failure. But that's *not* an improvement over 95/98, it's a step backwards because you eliminate some evidence that could be used to improve the situation. It took me a while to find out that there was an option in my game machine to make it stop dead on BSOD, instead of rebooting. When I finally got to see that screen, I found that I had to update a driver.
Don't like the OS? Fine, but don't use every chance you get to level it; it's becoming old, tiresome, and annoying.
What I find most annoying is the fact that I have to use an OS that sucks in order to play some games. At work I use Linux only, but I still need some MS OS to play most 3d games. Until the time when I can choose freely the best OS according to my experience, I will complain about the shortcomings of an OS that I'm forced to use against my will.
an easy-to-install, easy-to-use desktop OS
XP is certainly not an easy-to-install OS, it's usually a pre-installed OS, which is an entirely different thing. These days, if you do an install from scratch, Linux is easier to install. I found that when I upgraded my disk to a SATA 200Gb. With Linux everything is on a couple of CDs, with XP you have to go looking for those installation disks that you misplaced long ago. I still have a scanner that doesn't work under XP, about six months after I installed the OS. Not to mention those equipment, like a JVC camcorder that I had, where the only driver I could find raised a pop-up complaining that the hardware driver wasn't kosher in some way.
Funny, both my GF and I have (brand new, pre-loaded with/made for XP) Dell machines and BOTH have BSOD'd at times. At least they finally put in a feature to roll back the registry when it, inevitably, gets fsckd up.
Ergo I can conclude that you ARE a SHILL, if not an actual M$ employee...
If a giant oil company wanted an abortion, would W's head explode?