Vista to be Downloadable (Legally)

ubermiester writes "InfoWorld reports that Windows Vista will be available for legal download as of January 30th — the same day it will be available in retail stores. MS-NBC Online notes that, 'a relatively low number of computer users are likely to get Vista by downloading it from the Internet, but the mere availability indicates that Microsoft is fiddling with distribution methods for the extremely profitable franchise at the core of its business.' It will be available via the MS Marketplace site in conjunction with a Circuit City offering. Additionally, users who decide to 'upgrade' to a more expensive version of the OS can simply activate the features they want by unlocking them via online activation."

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Legally downloadable OS WOW

[SuseLover]

Thats a surprise. I've been downloading Linux/Solaris/Unix for how long now?

Yeah you can add the features you want online, but at what cost? Will it be like the $2.99 songs/ringtones for phones, nickel & diming us for each overpriced one?

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[darthgnu]

Hey, nice username, x2A is 42 in hexadecimal, it is also my blog's url: http://x2a.org/, nice to see it in the wild. Cheers.

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[x2A]

I was originally 2A, a shortened more discreet version of the name I used for writing music, AcidAlex, that I moved to after I moved away from writing acidy music, but keeping my roots. Funnily, one of the tracks I wrote under AcidAlex was called "I have 42". I think I started writing under 2A before I realised it was actually hex for 42, had quite a nice "NO WAY!!!" moment there like there was some deeper meaning to it (if I believed in that kinda thing) *lol*

Nobody's spotted it's double meaning before, but then I don't know many people that have any reason to use hex (maybe if I used &h42, the people who've dabbled in VB might spot it), and the people on here wouldn't know of my AcidAlex roots.

After my karma plummeted on my 2A account, something I could never figure out why (got modded up more often than down) - seemed like a good time to add the hint of hex to my name.

"nice to see it in the wild"

Totally! And take good care of that domain :-)