Tom's Overly Detailed Vista Review

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday June 3, 2006 @06:42AM from the have-a-few-hours-to-kill dept.

prostoalex writes "The weekend is here, and several software sites have published extensive reviews of Windows Vista for your reading enjoyment. Tom's Hardware is running a 500 hour Windows Vista review that spreads out 40 pages." From the article: "This new operating system is huge: it has more than 37,800 files, taking up a total of 10 GB. Part of this size stems from the fact that the current Beta is for the so-called "Ultimate Edition", which contains all available components, including complete versions of both Tablet PC and Media Center capabilities. In addition, many applications have been compiled in debug mode, so some space savings should occur for final versions once that debug switch is turned off. For our Windows Vista preview, we used Build 5381."

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Re:I TOLD them it was a dupe! by DanielSchuller · 2006-06-03 16:22 · Score: 0, Redundant

Let me save you some time, this is a dupe. As a "subscriber", I get the preview of articles with the blurb: See any serious problems with this story? Email our on-duty editor. at the bottom. This gives opportunity to correct errors (doesn't happen much) and more importantly help stem the tide of dupes. I replied, told them "DUPE, BIG TIME", but alas. (It's a dupe of Tom's Hardware Looks at Microsoft Vista Beta [slashdot.org].) So, since it's a dupe, and I already posted to that story, feel free to read my post [slashdot.org] again. (I don't mind the occasional dupe, I wonder why a mechanism to prevent them is offered if it isn't used. Sigh.)