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Early Testers Say Vista RC1 Not Ready
digihome writes "A number of partners and analysts who have downloaded Vista RC1 say the code is solid but they are not convinced it will be ready for release this fall. A Directions on Microsoft analyst said, 'I would call this at best a Beta Three and not a Release Candidate One.'"
how can it be not ready? they're always keeping a tight schedule that never falls behind. Duke Nukem anyone?
(Futurama) Fry: "My folks were always on me to groom myself and wear underpants. What am I, the pope?"
Yea, I don't know why this is such a shocker. They should really not rush it.
MS calls them SP1, SP2, SP3, SP4, ...
You want anecdotal evidence? I'll give you anecdotal evidence! In my research lab we've been using Windows Vista to control the video cameras that point into the womens toilets, and we've had no end of trouble. Last week one of the female professors was about to use one of the lavatories and my assistant, curled up in a duct, pressed Alt-Windows-F10 to take a screengrab, causing Vista to *instantly* blue screen. He tried to reboot but got his beard caught in his shoelaces when he blinded himself fumbling with the optical mouse. Another assistant managed to capture a grainy, blurry image of a ragged, scholarly minge, but of course Vista corrupted the JPEG before we could all take it home! Thankfully I was able to load it into Paint and draw over the corrupted blocks, but her dithered red and yellow clitoris was not very arousing. So you can take your Vista and shove it, we never have this trouble with Linux.
All microsoft operating systems are crap. /* until near their end of life. */
There. Fixed that for ya.
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Yes, if everything would be a-Ok when it comes to Windows it would be the story of the century. :-P
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You didn't happen to get your Divx codec from zcodec.com, did you?
No wonder you cant run it. Your video card is slower than most by a factor of ten. If only you had bought the 6600 you cheap bastard. Not only that, your Athlon is missing a bit. I'm surprised you can boot XP.........
What made you think it was a good resource for all thing Microsoft in the first place? All the rave reviews of Windows?
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#include "frickin_lasers.h"
I think the 2:3 rule comes into play.
In this case; Stable, Easy to Use, and Cheap; pick any two.
If you want Stable and Cheap, Linux/BSD - and a steep learning curve.
If you want Stable and Easy, Macintosh - and a lighter wallet.
If you want Cheap and Easy...
Aug 1996 NT4
Dec 1999 NT5.0
Oct 2001 NT5.1
Dec 2006 NT5.5
Well, the Windows $400 price tag is reasonable when you consider the simple and friendly $400 Bittorrent Rebate for home users.
Sony and the $600 PS3, however, require a lot more red-tape, requiring me to steal a wallet and use an out-of-town WalMart for my purchase. You can bet I'm not happy about that.
Take out half your RAM. Put in a hard drive 75% the size of your old drive. Remove your processor's clock crystal and replace it with one of half the frequency. Done.
-b.
I'm sure the three links directly from MS are completely objective on how awesome they are.
I'm not not licking toads.