Vista is here! Download or order now!

[hyphenate]

It looks like we're finally going to be treated to the newest version of Microsoft's OS.

http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/002226.html

[Deja Q]

1. Who has the ability to download four GIGABYTES in a reasonable period?

:rofl:

[aasleka]

4. ?

who dosn't? 2.5 hours on Utorrents p2p even faster from source.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

12. Takes 2.5 hours on my machine....

*gulp*

This scares me a bit.

[Redstone]

2. Have fun. Please don't kill yourself banging your heads against

your desk because things don't work.

Redstone

[hyphenate]

10. Eh!

I ordered it on DVD. I won't see it for about a week. Then I'll only install it on a partition on the hard drive. I'm not going to let it fuck up the rest of my system.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

13. If you guys don't hear from me for a couple of days, please

call the coroner.

Microsoft can kill.

:sarcasm:

[salvorhardin]

3. Is 'treated' really the right word to use

in relation to a Microsoft OS?

[Nordic65]

5. Order now? Are you smoking something??

Get your head out of the sand. This is a BETA release - and full of nasty bugs. It won't be on sale before next summer.

[Kutjara]

6. Its only the public beta, not the final version.

Don't use it for any critical applications. The retail version will be available in January 2007.

[Nordic65]

8. January 2007 - Don't bet on it

This thing will not be available to the general public before summer 2007.

Sure, the official word from MS today is January 2007, but given the state of things nobody believes it's ready before next summer...

[Kutjara]

11. They probably will release it in Jan.

They'll just keep dropping features until they get something they can shove out the door. By the time they're finished, Vista will just be an XP Service Pack with some new graphics.

[rucky]

15. If it's anything like the IE-7 Beta...

then Microsoft officially sucks.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

16. I'm thinking though that it can't crash that much more than XP on this

machine.

[hobbit709]

7. What makes you think

it will be better than previous versions of windoze considering microshaft's track record.
The system requirements say it's an even bigger memory hog than before and now it wants a minimum of 128 megs video RAM.

[calmblueocean]

9. Look at how shamelessly they tried to copy Apple..

They even stole Apple's Aqua design theme.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

14. I have but one word to say about this:

Drivers.

Ponder it well.

[Kutjara]

17. Wise words indeed.

Existing XP drivers may work...sort of. But they may not. Crap shoot time.

[sproutster]

18. I will NEVER put a copy of that on any pc I own

Do some research about their new "communication" technologies they have bundled.

[Steven_S]

19. Not on a bet --- No thanks....

I would wait at least a year to let someone else suffer the bugs before I buy a machine with Vista. I wouldn't even think of updating. Nope. Not gonna do it.