Window Vista - The "Wow" starts now

Wow is right:
"Wow, this takes forever to boot."
"Wow, this interface is slow."
"Wow, this OS takes up a lot of space."

I'm on a 2.53 Ghz machine with 1GB of RAM and it's slooooooow. Anyone else have this piece of shit loaded yet?

Sure, give all the MAC Geeks more to make fun of. Thanks.

Why the fuck did you buy a new OS before it had been out for at least a year?

That's what I was thinking. I have a free upgrade on it's way to me, but I have no plans to install it any time soon. XP works perfectly for me 99.9% of the time. Someone is going to have to give me a damned good reason to go through the hassle of installing a new OS.

It's not a huge ordeal or anything. But it's more effort than I am willing to put in for little return, and the chance of having problems. But I understand what you're saying. And I can't afford a mac. I couldn't afford this laptop when I bought it.

Who said I bought it?
I'm a programmer in a company with an MSDN subscription and they needed someone to make sure one of our apps works in Vista. I'm also the systems guy here, so I got to be the Guinea Pig.

I sure as fuck was not going to pay money for it, especially before SP1 is released. At least I was smart enough to install it on a separate partition so I can just blow it away and not have fucked up my workspace.

Eventually all new games will use DirectX 10.

Microsoft has insured that DirectX 10 will only work with Vista.

Resistance is futile, all serious users will eventually upgrade to Vista, like it or not. It is just a matter of time.

I'm kind of worried for the guys at Microsoft, eventually with enough market saturation your product will be used by some really crazy people.
When those crazy people find out that a bunch of the files they owned got DRM baleeted out of existence by Vista, (an operating system that thinks it has more rights to what you do on your computer than you do) they might just go nuts and start killing Microsoft employees.

"Wow, this is annoying."

Operating systems don't need features. They're there to - suprise, suprise - operate the fucking system. All those added features are other goddamn programs that are bundled with your operating system - AND NOT PART OF THE OPERATING SYSTEM ITSELF. The big hastle of updating windows for me is spending that hour searching around for all the new added features so I can turn the damn things off.

*whistles*

my dad's one of the gotta-be-the-first-one-to-have-something people, and he tried to install it and he has to uninstall vista the same day. it fucked up his internets connection. sounds like a headache to me. xp works fine for me.

yeah, its sucks so far since i tried it at work...more fuel for Macholes. although, i just ordered an imac, so im going to the darkside.

note: if you upgrade, it will hide the Administrator user. ...so you cant login as Administrator after the install.

Who, the fuck, gets a faster processor and new video card in order to upgrade the OS - that's called buying a new computer. I hate how all of those mac vs PC commercials are blatant lies.

The last time I upgraded my PC (RIP), the aftermath was such that I actually DID have to buy a new computer!

Vista has some pretty high requirements.

How well does it run WoW though? Eh? Eh?.... wow that was BAD

They're not all blatant lies, and in fact the one I posted has been mentioned by many, even die-hard Windows users as painfully true.

Also, the majority of computers in use today (all but those released in the last couple years, less for budget machines) will need video card and memory upgrades to take full advantage of Vista, i.e. the Aero Glass interface. The same thing happened when XP came out.

Granted, you could also argue that the 6 major releases Apple has produced between XP and Vista requires the same amount of upgrades to run properly. That is, when you're provided with an update path at all.

Yeah, I also wish these damn kids would GET OFF MY LAWN!!

Random deletions? Authoritarian OSs? DRM who?


Please to explain what it means?

Basically (and I have no idea if this is actually true, I'm just translating geekspeak) SPS is saying that Vista will nuke the files on your hard drive that it deems to be in violation of some kind of digital rights management (DRM) belonging to god knows who.

Savvy?

Do you have a source for that? I've heard that it takes over your hardware if it decides that you are in the process of pirating something, but I haven't heard anything like what you're saying, which sounds like a whole lot of suck.

drm? aerowhatsit? the first thing I did when I got xp was find the setting that made it look exactly like '98. xp works beautifully (after a few service packs and security patches, of course), and I can't figure out exactly what microsoft is selling me in vista that I don't already have.

I heard if it thinks you're pirating something, it ass rapes a family member.