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Windows Vista RC1 Impresses Critics

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the critics-aren't-always-critical dept.

bradley fellows writes "Early feedback from testers already using Windows Vista RC1 (Release Candidate 1) report that the OS is more stable than expected, which bodes well for Microsoft's plan to have Vista out according to its current schedule." Mind you, "expected" is relative given how many users regard their frequent crashes as normal operation for a PC.

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  1. Slashdot Beta Testing? by Dareth · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seemed to be bit of trouble logging in to Slashdot this morning...?

    Taco, please tell us you are not testing Vista RC1 for Microsoft!

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  2. Re:Interesting spin by jspectre · · Score: 3, Funny

    add 'em up and you got "not ready for stable prime time".. in other words, it's windows!

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  3. Correction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Mind you, "expected" is relative given how many users regard their frequent crashes as normal operation for Windows.


    Backhanded compliment: I'm sure Vista is already more usable than Gnome.

  4. yay by cwebb1977 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Even smaller applications such as Solitaire and Minesweeper games have a next-generation look and feel in Windows Vista RC1, Brust said. "It's a trivial example, but it shows a certain attention to detail [on the part of Microsoft]," he said.
    Just what I f*cking wanted. New-look minesweeper. Thanks!
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  5. I'm sold! by 10Ghz · · Score: 4, Funny
    Even smaller applications such as Solitaire and Minesweeper games have a next-generation look and feel in Windows Vista RC1


    That settles it! Come on Vista, my credit-card is ready!
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  6. Re:The Emperor's Clothes by Esion+Modnar · · Score: 3, Funny
    a place where every big, corporate business wants to be

    Every big corporate business with aspirations to be evil sees Microsoft as a comrade. Of course they want to do business with them.

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  7. Re:Huh? by Alphager · · Score: 3, Funny
    I only use Commercial software (MS Office, MS Visual Studio, Dreamweaver, Norton's AntiVirus).
    You Sir are a Troll. As if being "commercial" does magically increase the stability of software. Ged rid of that Norton-abomination and report back.
  8. Re:Huh? by RemovableBait · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not only are you a troll, but you're a troll that needs to defrag...

  9. Re:Holy Crap! by rbochan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh wait, there's hearts and spider too! Never mind.

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  10. Re:I run computers from the trash. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    M$ is teh \/\/0r$7! Only losers use any software from Money$oft! They bluescreen constantly d00d! M$ sucks!

    Everyone I know who uses M$ products has to reboot at least 5 times an hour. 5 times an hour! My main system is a 386 with 8 meg ram running Gentoo, which I use to tell time. It has NEVER crashed or bluescreened on me.

    BTW, you have totally l337 uptime!

  11. Vista CPU utilization by GodWasAnAlien · · Score: 2, Funny

    20% - Windows Bug updates
    20% - Media DRM
    20% - Virus Scanner
    10% - WGA verfification
    10% - MS Paperclip
    20% - Other

    This post has been updated with new security enhancements. It is recommended that you reboot.

    Yes - Reboot Now
    No - Reboot Later

  12. Re:Huh? by Lars+T. · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's a nega-dupe!

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  13. Re:Huh? by Tweekster · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let me know when you find that one guy that likes clippy, he needs the crap beaten out of him
    No matter how inexperienced the user i have never EVER heard of anything but curses when it comes to clippy.

    It was an idiotic idea then, it is an idiotic idea now, the developers should be banned from the industry and the managers should be all fired.

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  14. Re:Huh? by liloldme · · Score: 2, Funny

    XP blue screens pretty regularly on my Dell laptop. Don't know how faulty their hardware is but I'd expect less frequent crashes no matter what.