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Re: It isn't Vista that needs polishing... |
Jul 23, 2008, 14:41 |
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meh, I use Vista HP 64bit and it's perfectly fine, not had any trouble with it.
I wouldn't say it's sufficiently better than XP to warrant an upgrade, but I'm somewhat bemused by all the haters. I can only assume many of them haven't used it, or not recently anyway.
It makes quite a big HDD footprint (Windows folder currently 15gb), but it's a drop in the HDD ocean. Memory is very cheap, and while Vista looks like a memory hog, much of it is basically preloading and can be dumped as required.
UAC is a nuisance but you can turn it off and revert to the XP Admin/User account method instead.
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Re: It isn't Vista that needs polishing... |
Jul 23, 2008, 10:42 |
Umbragen |
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I don't find the Vista bashers as confounding as the Microsoft cheerleaders. Why bother? Vista is, at best, a lateral progression from XP. Aside from some visual gimmicks it has nothing new to offer. And, it does what it does only with considerably more resources. Yeah, some say it's more secure - so what. If you didn't find XP to be unsecure that means nothing. Personally, I'm still pissed about limiting DX10 to Vista. I'd be more upset though, if developers were actually using it. I suppose when MS releases the next version XBox, featuring a DX11 architecture, I'll be forced to re-install Vista. Until that happens, there is no reason to upgrade.
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It isn't Vista that needs polishing... |
Jul 23, 2008, 08:46 |
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...it's the ignoramuses who keep writing the same old bilge about Vista, which is especially poignant right after Microsoft announced the other day that it has sold 180,000,000 *licenses* for Vista in the 18 months or so that Vista has been shipping. I'd say any company who could sell on average TEN MILLION licenses PER MONTH (not copies shipped to resellers, but *licenses,* which means that many copies in the hands of end users) would by any other yardstick have been considered a smash success.
I think that without a doubt Vista bashers have hidden agendas and prejudices against Microsoft that warp their psyches so badly that even when Microsoft is selling Vista like crazy, these numskulls are writing "blogs" that seem utterly impervious to fact.
Without a doubt, each year as more of the general public takes up personal computing as a daily activity, the blogs they often write get dumber and dumber. This particular blog was so incredibly stupid, dimwitted, and ignorant that it's very difficult for me to accept the fact that epapers are publishing such low-brow rot. I mean, this kind of stupidity is usually reserved for rags like the National Enquirer alongside the "President Bush Meets with Aliens" stories.
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Cant Polish |
Jul 23, 2008, 04:42 |
Kahanamoku |
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I guess we have a new catch phrase now...
You cant polish a vista
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Re: Polishing Vista |
Jul 23, 2008, 01:00 |
GreatWurm |
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I've heard of Swedeing a movie, but Polishing? People from Poland are probably up in arms...
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Polishing Vista |
Jul 22, 2008, 23:08 |
Nameless |
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Ya can't polish a TURD. (I know you knew Blue.  )
While somewhat related, when I first read the title, I thought it said "Polishing Vista" as in Poland or pollacks. So I thought, "Well, they did a fine job of it so far..."
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Re: No subject |
Jul 22, 2008, 23:05 |
Halo |
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"Where failure is not an option... it's bundled in"
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No subject |
Jul 22, 2008, 21:35 |
JaguarUSF |
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I think the expression you are looking for is:
"You can lead a horse to water, but Microsoft can't make a good operating system."
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