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Microsoft Releases Vista Hardware Requirements
Digital Inspiration writes "CNet reports that Microsoft has kicked off a 'Get Ready' campaign aimed at helping customers prepare for Windows Vista. The site also includes an Upgrade Advisor tool to help people determine just how Vista-ready an existing PC is." From the article: "The marketing programs and upgrade tool are designed to ease some of the uncertainty around Vista well ahead of the back-to-school and holiday shopping seasons, the two biggest PC selling times of the year. Vista had long been expected to arrive by the 2006 holidays, but Microsoft said in March that it would not arrive on store shelves until January."
As computers advance it only makes sense to use the power that is becoming available.
You miss the point... Yes, we want to make full use of the power of our PCs... But we want that use to go to the programs we run, whether that means games or multimedia editing or whatever. If the OS itself requires those specs, that doesn't speak well for how well other things will run under that OS.
"Sure I used to run Cool3dShooter2005 at 115fps and under Vista I only get 20fps... But look at that cool transparent window title with multiple internal reflections! And it means a lot to me that Microsoft has thoughtfully reserved 400MB of RAM to make sure I get my once-or-twice-a-month local file searches back ASAP."
Hell with the attitude you have why would we have ever wanted more than text based graphics?
I'll admit I've gotten used to the convenience of using a GUI for managing a filesystem... Drag-and-drop takes soooo much less effort than manually typing out paths. But beyond that, I don't care what the OS looks like - Win95 already had every significant feature of the Windows GUI I find valuable. But the OS merely serves a purpose, it acts as a tool. Would you go out and buy a new house just so you can use a spiffy new chrome-plated swiss-army hammer with racing fins and a limited edition bottle-opener, but doesn't work on "legacy" nails?
How are they going to download an extra-large bottle of aspirin over the 'net? Surely that would be the most important component of any "Get ready for Vista!" kit, wouldn't it?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
"Premium Ready" is this and this:
Oh yeah, and you paid a freaking Premium for what's going to be XP + 128MB RAM performance. 15 GB for the OS, 25 GB for Office, there's no room on this system for Linux now is there, chuckles Bill Gates to himself. Meanwhile, Mepis gives you all the same programs and features for a mere 2GB disk space and 128 MB of RAM, and not a lot of computer. I've run with a lot less.
Hot Air Graphics are here compared to KDE :
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
What, is someone going to be afraid or uncertain about the quality of Vista? What with M$'s stellar reputation for innovation, how could I? Everyone remembers how much worth the money XP was, right? Piffft, more of the same.
I'm not sure why anyone would listen to someone with a troll name like "RzUpAnmsCwrds," but your BS is easy enough to refute.
All of the claims of supposed improvement I made came from M$'s own site.
Windows 2000 & XP have full transparency support, and it's hardware accelerated if your GPU supports the feature (NVIDIA and ATI GPUs do)
Don't confuse nvidia and ati work with M$'s crappy GUI and don't tell me they worked well until very recently. I've seen them then and now. People with those specific cards usually turn those features off because they suck performance. Meanwhile X delivers without cost. Microsoft is pretending this is something new and that they are responsible. It would not be surprising if they are simply touting other people's work as their own again.
Windows 95 had a search item in the Start Menu, years before KDE even existed.
And it called their crappy file finder. The new one is doing what KDE's did, which is to find menu items in the program menu. The funny thing is that M$ needs it much more than KDE does, thanks to the insane vendor name organization forced on Windoze users. The average gnu/linux distro has more programs but organizes the program menu by function, so the menu is easy to browse.
a more integrated browser ... Explorer has supported HTTP since 1997 (IE4's Active Desktop). Windows 98 and later support WebDAV and FTP in the browser. SMB/CIFS has been supported since Windows 95.
Once again, the claim is Microsoft's, and they sorely need it. Don't confuse the Active Desktop abortion with a truly integrated browser. Microsoft has continued to draw a bullshit distinction between local area network files and internet files, which is a continuation of their artificial asymmetric (master and slave) computing model. Windoze users have always had to get third party applications to drag and drop files from ftp and sftp sites because M$ has only cared about NetBIOS. Indeed, M$ has done everything in their power to thwart standards based file transfer and I don't really expect them to live up to the new and improved claims.
Vista is approx. 6.8GB on my system. Office 2003 is ~2-3GB. That's less than 10GB total.
Do you realize how pathetic that is? Open Office, including artwork and fonts, takes up 200MB and I consider that a pig. Mepis, which includes the latest and greatest Open Office, KDE's excellent music player, PIM and contact management system, real databases, web servers etc, takes up less than Office 2003 alone. That's a factor of 10 for Office and a factor three or four for the OS. Your system must take forever to start up and load applications. My computer will load faster than yours, even if your disks work ten times faster than mine and they are not. I'm using nice old 80MB/s scsi drives, for my 1.7 GB of system files, which have transfer rates SATA is finally catching up to.
If what you say is true, Vista is a pig that no CPU or disk subsystem will be able to save. It will need gigs of RAM to use as swap space and even then, it will take all sorts of time to start so it better have excellent uptime. Code so crappy that it sucks up 10 GB of disk space, is going to be anything but stable or secure. This is indeed a Train Wreck.
Some people walk on coals. Others sleep on nails. Still others eat glass. They at least amuse themselves and their friends. Watching people use Vista is going to be a lot like watching people do other silly things.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.