Vista Sales

[Gurm]

I never had any problems with it, then again you shouldn't be using a PC to watch a damn movie

On a SMALL screen it's pixelated and splotchy. I can't imagine how it would look on a BIG screen. Then again it might be video-driver dependent. All I know is that on my laptop, the difference between it and PowerDVD is night and day, which is sad.

[Gurm]

microsoft BOB

Internet Explorer 1

Windows ME

Pretty sure nobody ever really saw IE1.

[Gurm]

I think the point Jammrock was making - and that I tried and failed to make - is that Vista's TCP/IP stack redesign seems to work really well on corporate-level switches and really poorly on anything else.

It's ok on Linksys and Cisco. Sadly, that's NOT what's in the majority of homes. Linksys is currently competitive with Netgear and Belkin and D-Link, but that's a recent development, they've always been a few bucks more - and hence not as popular on the homefront!

The fact is that Vista was, like every other MS product, rushed to market. Where's the journaling database-driven filesystem? Oh wait, it wasn't ready! Where's the ... oh wait, that wasn't ready either! Half the OS has been cut due to time constraints, because they wanted to release RIGHT NOW!

[Umfriend]

So...what are other 3?

In ascending order:
3. MS Sequel Server Management Studio (and well, MS Sql Server 2005 is doing fine as well)

And way more impressive:
2. Excel. Just by far the best spreadsheet around especially given VBA that comes with it.

1. MS Sidewinder Precision Pro Force-Feedback joysticks.

[DGhost]

But desktops today would run/work much better under XP than Vista.

I'm really not so sure. Pretty much all desktops being sold today are running hardware that was designed with Vista in mind. the current mid range experience is about as good as it was on XP.

low end... dunno. I have yet to play with Vista Basic but there is no reason it should not perform as good as XP since it has most of the new features disabled...


Gurm - You mean WinFS - the database file system that has been cancelled entirely? Or .NET 3.0 - which has been released?

No, I think they just realized that to build these tools and then build the OS on top of it was going to take way way way too much time and not benefit them any.

[Chucky Cheese]

...uh...i bought 2 copies of vista ultimate...i don't think i was snookered?

my linksys rvs4000 router has builtin support for the "dual stack"(ip6/ip4) no problems so far...as far as mapping network drives(..my NAS) this is all i had to do to fix that...

Admin Tools >> Local Security Policy >> Local Policies >> Security Options...find the Policy Key named Network Security : LAN Manager Authentication Level....set the value to Send LM and NTLM responces.

for me...vista is windows done right!

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[Jammrock]

for me...vista is windows done right!

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...says the person with the devil as his avatar.

[Chucky Cheese]

...i thoght the same thing after i posted it! and i just changed it too!

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[Chucky Cheese]

...that was a bad avatar...changed!

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