Not really a question but an instruction, you may want to get a new source for your information.
That thing about Vista invalidating your XP key is wrong.
"READ the EULA, it doesn't state that your existing XP Key invalidated, it states that once you upgrade to Vista - you are not allowed to use the software you "upgraded".
From Vista EULA - "13. UPGRADES. To use upgrade software, you must first be licensed for the software that is eligible for the upgrade. Upon upgrade, this agreement takes the place of the agreement for the software you upgraded from. After you upgrade, you may no longer use the software you upgraded from."
No, you won't be losing many more with Aero, in fact, you'll be losing less CPU cycles with Aero than you did with the pervious desktop manager (Or whatever the hell you want to call it) then XP.
IIRC ExtremeTech had some benchmarks and it was over %50 LESS usage than XP, mostly because they had optimised it and because the GPU was taking some of the work.
Nobody ever asked for Vista. Nobody wants it. I'm tired of MS trying to ram it down our throats.
Microsoft is damned if they do and damned if they don't. Microsoft finally fixed a hell of a lot of things in Windows and added a lot of things which were sorely missing and guess what ? Some small group of kids on a website complain about how Microsoft is 'forcing' it down their throat. If you don't want to use Windows, don't, go play with Linux.
There's no technical reason for this.
Oh, but there is. DX10 relies on the new driver model among other things which are only present in Vista. Sure, you could bring everything to XP but the amount of work required is just stupid and silly.
You know what I'm sick of having rammed down my throat (I don't really mean it, just showing how silly you are and how guility the other side is) ? FOSS. I don't have this silly inherent belief that all software should be free and I'm personally okay for paying for software someone like me worked hard to create. Sure, open source is wonderful (I use a lot of it, daily) but what many anti-Microsoft people want to admit (Or they're just to self-obsessed and ignorant to realise) is that Windows is basically perfectly fine for most consumers.
I could install Ubuntu or another distro on my family's/grandma's computer but how would they benefit ? They would have to relearn (To these people the computer is like a toaser), they'd have problems (Content, apps, compatibility, etc) but in the end, there aren't enough benefits (They haven't had any security problems in a long time, since around SP2).
- This post was written in haste (Dinneerrr) and I know there are many, many benefits of open source software but you get the gist of what I'm saying.
Out of curiosity, where do you get your information ? Does the site have Apple or Mac in its name ?
Why do I ask ? Because you're going on some rubbish about DRM.
Zune is a failure vs Ipod because consumers don't want to deal with DRM everytime they want to listen to something, especially when there are hundreds if not thousands of music players that will play non DRM files. Including the Ipod.
The consumer doesn't have to deal with DRM every time they want to listen to something. The Zune doesn't apply DRM to every file and files do not require DRM to be played. If you want to use your Zune like an iPod or any other PMP and just copy across your illegally acquired (Or even legally acquired as in, ripped from CDs) you can, there's nothing special or different about the Zune.
- I have a feeling you or some other enlightened fellow will bring up the 3 day/play limit on songs sent from 1 Zune to another. That restriction is not per file but rather is in the software so the actual file sent is not modified.
Also, how can you say the Zune has failed ? It hasn't even been out 2 months yet your claiming it is a failure and the reason you're claiming it is a failure is for something you made up. I believe you, really.
Vista will fail for similar reasons.
Now, you say this but in your paragraph there is basically nothing to do with your imaginary DRM restrictions aside from "if Apple starts opening their mouth about vista DRM screwing their music experience" which is more things you've imagined. There is no DRM in Vista which will ruin a customers music experience. Now, onto the other part about Vista failing, you claim that Vista will fail because of reasons basically every previous version of Windows faced, that being businesses slow to upgrade, etc. Oh wait, I saw a story about how this year is 'Year of desktop linux' - surely Microsoft is doomed !
By the way, there was a 'buy a Mac and get an iPod free' deal before. That did wonders just like all those people buying iPods has done wonders for Mac sales (Hint: I'm being sarcastic).
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Not really a question but an instruction, you may want to get a new source for your information.
That thing about Vista invalidating your XP key is wrong.
"READ the EULA, it doesn't state that your existing XP Key invalidated, it states that once you upgrade to Vista - you are not allowed to use the software you "upgraded".
From Vista EULA - "13. UPGRADES. To use upgrade software, you must first be licensed for the software that is eligible for the upgrade. Upon upgrade, this agreement takes the place of the agreement for the software you upgraded from. After you upgrade, you may no longer use the software you upgraded from."
No, you won't be losing many more with Aero, in fact, you'll be losing less CPU cycles with Aero than you did with the pervious desktop manager (Or whatever the hell you want to call it) then XP. IIRC ExtremeTech had some benchmarks and it was over %50 LESS usage than XP, mostly because they had optimised it and because the GPU was taking some of the work.
Microsoft is damned if they do and damned if they don't. Microsoft finally fixed a hell of a lot of things in Windows and added a lot of things which were sorely missing and guess what ? Some small group of kids on a website complain about how Microsoft is 'forcing' it down their throat. If you don't want to use Windows, don't, go play with Linux.
There's no technical reason for this.Oh, but there is. DX10 relies on the new driver model among other things which are only present in Vista. Sure, you could bring everything to XP but the amount of work required is just stupid and silly.
You know what I'm sick of having rammed down my throat (I don't really mean it, just showing how silly you are and how guility the other side is) ? FOSS. I don't have this silly inherent belief that all software should be free and I'm personally okay for paying for software someone like me worked hard to create. Sure, open source is wonderful (I use a lot of it, daily) but what many anti-Microsoft people want to admit (Or they're just to self-obsessed and ignorant to realise) is that Windows is basically perfectly fine for most consumers.
I could install Ubuntu or another distro on my family's/grandma's computer but how would they benefit ? They would have to relearn (To these people the computer is like a toaser), they'd have problems (Content, apps, compatibility, etc) but in the end, there aren't enough benefits (They haven't had any security problems in a long time, since around SP2).
- This post was written in haste (Dinneerrr) and I know there are many, many benefits of open source software but you get the gist of what I'm saying.
Out of curiosity, where do you get your information ? Does the site have Apple or Mac in its name ?
Why do I ask ? Because you're going on some rubbish about DRM.
Zune is a failure vs Ipod because consumers don't want to deal with DRM everytime they want to listen to something, especially when there are hundreds if not thousands of music players that will play non DRM files. Including the Ipod.The consumer doesn't have to deal with DRM every time they want to listen to something. The Zune doesn't apply DRM to every file and files do not require DRM to be played. If you want to use your Zune like an iPod or any other PMP and just copy across your illegally acquired (Or even legally acquired as in, ripped from CDs) you can, there's nothing special or different about the Zune.
- I have a feeling you or some other enlightened fellow will bring up the 3 day/play limit on songs sent from 1 Zune to another. That restriction is not per file but rather is in the software so the actual file sent is not modified.
Also, how can you say the Zune has failed ? It hasn't even been out 2 months yet your claiming it is a failure and the reason you're claiming it is a failure is for something you made up. I believe you, really.
Vista will fail for similar reasons.Now, you say this but in your paragraph there is basically nothing to do with your imaginary DRM restrictions aside from "if Apple starts opening their mouth about vista DRM screwing their music experience" which is more things you've imagined. There is no DRM in Vista which will ruin a customers music experience. Now, onto the other part about Vista failing, you claim that Vista will fail because of reasons basically every previous version of Windows faced, that being businesses slow to upgrade, etc. Oh wait, I saw a story about how this year is 'Year of desktop linux' - surely Microsoft is doomed !
By the way, there was a 'buy a Mac and get an iPod free' deal before. That did wonders just like all those people buying iPods has done wonders for Mac sales (Hint: I'm being sarcastic).