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Upgrade Trick Still Present In Vista SP1
Chris Blanc writes "The new Service Pack 1 version of Windows Vista allows end users to purchase the 'upgrade edition' and install it on any PC — with no need to purchase the more expensive 'full edition.' The same behavior was present when Vista was originally released, but the fact that the trick wasn't removed from SP1 suggests that Microsoft executives approved the back door as a way to make the price of Vista more appealing to sophisticated buyers."
Gee, where have I heard the word "paytard" before? Oh, yeah!
When you used it to describe an 11-year-old boy!
I take it when you were 5, your family was poor and using outdated hand me downs with older operating systems that couldn't support the games you wanted to play.
That's cool and all, I have been poor too. But I highly doubt that a saying to passify a kid that you can't provide for is a perfectly universal message. It was only his way of attempting to not look like a useless loser in front of you.
You were listening to a salesman. What the hell did you expect?
2g is MORE than enough for Vista- WAY more.
If you look at Vista's internals, it DOES offer features to blow people away. Superfetch (which takes advantage of the extra RAM you may put in, assuming you decide to go to 64bit OS obviously) is a wonderful feature. Give it enough time to learn what to grab and you'll be very pleased with the results.
Sorry, but if your dad is "totally lost" because window boards now display differently, I can only think he's extraordinarly retarded. If all he needs is a browser, he's unlikely to need to find where some things have moved.. say Network Connections.
As far as new features go, there are plenty, but not all are drawn on the screen. It is more secure, printing is much more reliable, the search integrated into the start menu actually works really well, just to name a few. I've been using Vista for a while now, and its not any slower than XP was (although I never settle for that crap onboard video).
As for the salesman.. they're going to lie to you to sell you something. Wow, shocker. I hate to tell you, that kind of thing isn't limited to the computer world.