sparhawk 17 Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 I know it's old news, but I just found this by accident, so I repost it here for anybody who is interested. http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=34586 I consider this good news, even though I certainly wont use Vista any time soon. I haven't even "upgraded" to XP and there is even less incentive to use Vista, with all the overloaded crap it comes with. Quote Gerhard Link to post Share on other sites
OrbWeaver 587 Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 Looks from the article like Khronos are providing the native support, not Microsoft. Still, this is good news. Hopefully the use of OpenGL on Linux will grow enough that manufacturers don't even think about abandoning support for it, irrespective of what Microsoft does. Quote DarkRadiant homepage ⋄ DarkRadiant user guide ⋄ OrbWeaver's Dark Ambients ⋄ Blender export scripts Link to post Share on other sites
Macsen 5 Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 Another version of Windows? I'm still using DOS Shell! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
New Horizon 496 Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 Vista...gah...it looks like a bloated sack of crap. Oooh, pretty windows. Man, it would have been great if they actually did something truly revolutionary and ..oh..I don't know, stripped the thing down to the absolute graphical essentials. Sure, I want my programs to do pretty things...but please, just give me an OS that runs the programs...k mikeysoft? Leave system resources for my programs. Rant = over Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crispy 8 Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 To be fair, there are some worthwhile improvements in Vista. However, the new GUI crap is definitely not one of them. Quote My games | Public Service Announcement: TDM is not set in the Thief universe. The city in which it takes place is not the City from Thief. The player character is not called Garrett. Any person who contradicts these facts will be subjected to disapproving stares. Link to post Share on other sites
sparhawk 17 Posted December 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 Which features would that be? Quote Gerhard Link to post Share on other sites
Huckeye 0 Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 Which features would that be? -Constant and random product activation-Genuine advantage (for the consumer, of course)-Direct X10 monopoly by signing producers to exclude DX9 support in their products-Purty desktop theme-Bug fixes that should have been free downloads 5 years ago-Enormous system overhead-More old software won't work-You get the privilege of transfering the license 2-5 times (can't remember what's most recent)-If you want to go off line you get the privilege of talking to the support staff and explain to them why your system wasn't connected to the internet. And here is the feature: They might decide to allow you to continue using their OS that you will never own. I'm sure there are more, but I am actually in a good mood on Fridays so I can't remember most of them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Komag 20 Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 I heard many of the same sort of horror stories before XP came out Quote Link to post Share on other sites
OrbWeaver 587 Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 I heard many of the same sort of horror stories before XP came out And many of them are true. Windows Activation is a real pain if you have to reinstall, and plenty of people have reported having perfectly-legit copies of Windows arbitrarily disabled by WGA. Quote DarkRadiant homepage ⋄ DarkRadiant user guide ⋄ OrbWeaver's Dark Ambients ⋄ Blender export scripts Link to post Share on other sites
Huckeye 0 Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 I heard many of the same sort of horror stories before XP came outBut did MS actually promise them? I understand the broken apps problem will occur with all OSes, but never ending, mandatory product activation? (That's MS's promise, not media speculation). Companies making exclusive DX10 games when there are others who have no problem supporting both DX10, and DX9? (Never mind that the Xbox can run games that 'only Vista' can support, or that Windows XP is supposed to have like 5 years of support left in it so it should get its own DX10) That's not speculation either. I seem to remember reading something about content protection as well. That there is very little you can do with certain DVD's, Cd's, etc. on a vista machine. I can't remember the specs on that though. I agree that some will blow things out of proportion (I may be one of them), but Vista looks like a $400 desktop theme that has about 4 GBs of spyware included with it. (IMHO). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Komag 20 Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 I've had about a dozen different pcs/laptops since XP and it's always been a snap for me. I don't know how many people had problems. I think Microsoft knows the market pretty well and won't screw it up for the next version. I won't be getting Vista right at the start but I'll probably get it after about a year. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crispy 8 Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 Which features would that be?Improved security, mostly (including a sandbox environment for web browsers - yes it's about time). Also user-mode drivers: Driver crashes will no longer cause blue-screens. The OS is capable of handling the error and restarting the driver without adverse affects on the system. It also means you can upgrade drivers without having to restart Windows. There are also some minor niceties like scalable icons (which Linux has of course had for AGES), improved speech recognition and speech synthesis capabilities, a better task scheduler, and the list goes on... I've never had a problem with XP, but I did wait and watch from the sidelines for a long time. I suspect I'll probably do the same with Vista: Drag my feet for as long as possible (until most new applications require Vista, like most new applications won't work with Windows 98 today) and only then take the plunge. Quote My games | Public Service Announcement: TDM is not set in the Thief universe. The city in which it takes place is not the City from Thief. The player character is not called Garrett. Any person who contradicts these facts will be subjected to disapproving stares. Link to post Share on other sites
ascottk 0 Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 If only registration was as easy as mac os x. I have no site license but I installed my copy onto my mom's & dad's computers. The activation thing ms came up with is total crap. Quote Scott's AI models progress list Scott's SoundClick Page Scott's MySpace Page Link to post Share on other sites
Domarius 2 Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 You know that "disk image" backup process I came up with? Vista has something like that embedded in it. So rather than just install Vista, you can create your own install disc with all your apps already installed, and you just install one disc and you're back to normal. I've never had a problem with XP, but I did wait and watch from the sidelines for a long time. I suspect I'll probably do the same with Vista: Drag my feet for as long as possible (until most new applications require Vista, like most new applications won't work with Windows 98 today) and only then take the plunge.Ditto to all of that. Quote Domarius' To Do listDomarius' videos of completed anims Link to post Share on other sites
woah 64 Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 Not going to even ponder buying it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sparhawk 17 Posted December 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 Improved security, mostly (including a sandbox environment for web browsers - yes it's about time). Also user-mode drivers: Driver crashes will no longer cause blue-screens. The OS is capable of handling the error and restarting the driver without adverse affects on the system. It also means you can upgrade drivers without having to restart Windows. WOW! I'm impressed that MS managed to implement such stuff after seeing it for more then ten years on all kind of other operating systems. There are also some minor niceties like scalable icons (which Linux has of course had for AGES), improved speech recognition and speech synthesis capabilities, a better task scheduler, and the list goes on... Not to forget the fingeprint "security". I've never had a problem with XP, but I did wait and watch from the sidelines for a long time. I suspect I'll probably do the same with Vista: Drag my feet for as long as possible (until most new applications require Vista, like most new applications won't work with Windows 98 today) and only then take the plunge. I still don't use XP as W2K serves quite fine. But I guess in a few years I will have to consider downgrading to XP. Would be nice if Linux would be strong enough by then, that I could get away without Windows, but somehow I doubt it. Quote Gerhard Link to post Share on other sites
Crispy 8 Posted December 10, 2006 Report Share Posted December 10, 2006 WOW! I'm impressed that MS managed to implement such stuff after seeing it for more then ten years on all kind of other operating systems.Quite. Still, for those of us still using Windows, they are improvements. I still don't use XP as W2K serves quite fine. But I guess in a few years I will have to consider downgrading to XP. Would be nice if Linux would be strong enough by then, that I could get away without Windows, but somehow I doubt it.Windows XP is fine if you spend some time beating it into shape. Quote My games | Public Service Announcement: TDM is not set in the Thief universe. The city in which it takes place is not the City from Thief. The player character is not called Garrett. Any person who contradicts these facts will be subjected to disapproving stares. Link to post Share on other sites
SneaksieDave 40 Posted October 25, 2008 Report Share Posted October 25, 2008 @admins: delete user PrormVotoNode I edited the post to remove the spam, but there was more spam in the sig, so I deleted the post completely. edit by greebo: done. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HappyCheeze 1 Posted October 25, 2008 Report Share Posted October 25, 2008 I've heard vista 64 is amazing, I will eventually updgrade to that when I go past 4 gigs of ram, or maybe windows 7 will be released by than. Also if you get OEM editions, theres no preloaded bullshit programs that slow you down and clog up space. Quote |=-=------=-=|happycheeze.deviantart.com Moddb Gamers Outreach, a nonprofit that uses videogames to raise money for chairty.|=-=------=-=| Link to post Share on other sites
jdude 18 Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 I've been really happy with XP, I have the XP key and I had lost the cd for install, so I downloaded XP install with SP2 off bittorent and installed it and it ACTUALLY activated! I had to do it over the phone, but the fact remains it still worked I'm also so used to where everything in xp is that I don't wanna have it changed at all, ESPECIALLY their retarded new start menu and how the computer always goes into standby rather than shuts off. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jdude 18 Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 By the way.... What's this Windows 7 thing? Is it the successor to Vista? If so WHY so soon? I sure hope they will provide way more customization to make it basic like xp. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crispy 8 Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 By the way.... What's this Windows 7 thing? Is it the successor to Vista?Yes. If so WHY so soon?Have you seen those Vista reviews? Seriously though - Vista was released in late 2006, and According To Wikipedia* the best estimates of Windows 7's release are around late 2009, or possibly mid-2009. That's three years. Windows 95 and 98 were released three years apart. Windows ME (blech) was two years after 98. Windows XP was one year after that (three years after 98, and XP was the biggest upgrade since 95). The five-year gap between XP and Vista was not the norm; it was an oddity caused by a development process full of direction changes and plagued with issues. * I use this exact phrase every single time I quote Wikipedia as a source, so much so that it feels like it should be Capitalised In Italics. And possibly TrademarkedTM. Quote My games | Public Service Announcement: TDM is not set in the Thief universe. The city in which it takes place is not the City from Thief. The player character is not called Garrett. Any person who contradicts these facts will be subjected to disapproving stares. Link to post Share on other sites
Tels 278 Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 * I use this exact phrase every single time I quote Wikipedia as a source, so much so that it feels like it should be Capitalised In Italics. And possibly TrademarkedTM.[citation needed] Quote "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) "Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax Link to post Share on other sites
Crispy 8 Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 Don't get me started on those stupid citation needed tags. Quote My games | Public Service Announcement: TDM is not set in the Thief universe. The city in which it takes place is not the City from Thief. The player character is not called Garrett. Any person who contradicts these facts will be subjected to disapproving stares. Link to post Share on other sites
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