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Windows Vista RC2 Available
GarstMan writes to mention that Microsoft has released what it hopes will be the last version of Windows Vista to go through the testing process. From the article: "This new build of Windows Vista offers users a higher level of performance and stability - improving what was established in Windows Vista RC1. We were able to also fix many of your bugs reported from RC1 and implement them for RC2. Thank you to our beta testers for the bugs and feedback you submitted for RC1. The improvement shows as we raised our quality bar even higher! Platforms and Services Co-President Jim Allchin has just posted a special announcement letter of RC2 to Microsoft Connect for the Windows Vista Technical Beta Testers."
So what do I need for this one, a quad processor? :)
Higher than what?
"This new build of Windows Vista (insert last minute name change here) offers users a higher level of performance (depending on hardware) and stability (depending on use) - improving what was established in Windows Vista RC1 (did I see this?). We were able to also fix (obscure) many of your bugs (rat-farts) reported from RC1 (what?) and implement them for RC2 (oh, ofcourse). Thank you to our beta testers (the general pubic) for the bugs (features) and feedback (bullshit) you submitted for RC1. The improvement shows as we raised our quality bar (price) even higher! Platforms and Services Co-President Jim Allchin has just posted a (vacation) special announcement letter of RC2 to Microsoft Connect for the Windows Vista Technical Beta Testers."
Nobody likes DRM but it's neceassary evil.
Look at textbooks and technical books and such. They typeset it electronically, do everything electronically until they print the damn book and never make the electronic version available anywhere for anyone (except for some exceptions because there is no DRM). Now, if there was standard DRM then books would be released electroically that you could search through or have search engines search through. So much knowledge is just locked away in paper version of books that's hard to access.
Music and movies are already digital so they're fighting the visible battle. But, a lot of content is out there locked away by their owners because there is no DRM to protect it and choose to get it out in hard to copy methods.
See how many people go to Wikipedia for a theorem or a law that is replicated in almost 1000 textbooks but none available online.
From what I hear, it will be even harder than it was for XP, to reuse the same copy of Windows, legally on computers that you own. I consider using the single copy of Windows that I bought on all of my computers to be Fair Use. I think technological impairments of free use are wrong, and really should not be permitted.
Maybe someone will figure out a way to circumvent whatever nasty restrictions it has regarding this.
Saw this bit:-
and I wonder if you're understanding one another. Has the time taken to format a Windows partition changed so much with Vista ?Then I got to this bit :-
and I had two thoughts,Just my thoughts -excuse them, please
How many beans make five, anyhow ?
Yes, it is necessary, or else everything would be pirated to hell and back. And using goofy, loaded words like "evil" just illustrates how juvenile Slashdot becomes when tackling the issue of creators' rights. Basically, you guys want to stack everything in favor of the pirates and against the creators.
Besides, the GPL is essentially a form of DRM (digital rights management).
"Sufferin' succotash."
And to install new versions just apt-get'em!
Gotta be one BIG ASSED patch...
I saw a co-worker using it. I wasn't very impressed. I told him about KDE (in generalizations) having up to 16 virtual desktops, the ability to Ctrl+Alt+Tab out to a console, the ability to do other things, and told another co-worker how one can double-click on Konqueror's title bar and how she could shade/scroll up, Alt+Right+Click mouse-drag to resize an app in the event one has shaky hands....
My team mate's main comment about vista was, "Man, I bet Apple's gonna be piss about this..." (the Apple-like widgets and dials on the screen). To which I responded, "And this from the company that claims it INNOVATES. Hell, they copy what they cannot think up and buy what they cannot create. That's innovation for you..."
Now, he's looking forward to us spending time outside of IT-related tasks to installing various Linux distros on systems so he can broaden his scope outside of windoze...
Nothing like viral marketing. I even showed a Dell tech rep today my Linux Format and Linux User mags, and HE was surprised to see Compiz and other 3D GUI features LINUX is alREADY deploying ahead of vista... It seems he, too, is going to spend time checking out Linux.... Nothing like viral marketing...
DS
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
Trouble is there are a lot of people out there that worship Micro$oft. You are right about the marketing hype being just that, hype to get everyone to buy it like minion sheep. Maybe an effort to pump and dump an otherwise stagnant (MSFT) stock as it really hasn't done much in the last 5 years. I would have rather owned RHAT. I might even buy Vista it if I can get a legal copy with office for $19 like those in Taiwan or China. But I am not going to hold my breath.
For me, I have maybe 6-7 years left in the I/T business to retirement, then I will be free of Windoze. Windoze will go down in history as the operating system that made white collar America unproductive but entertained.
Now it is time for the Micro$oft trolls to mod this troll down. But remember a troll is also about an individual's perspective.