rhema7 Posted February 14, 2007 Report Share Posted February 14, 2007 Given MS's habit of not completing it's products don't you think it is funny that Vista comes in a box with one rounded corner.they cut corners on everything else now it has moved into the advertising.The Box makes a true statement... "MS the king of cutting Corners"Preston Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bozodog Posted February 14, 2007 Report Share Posted February 14, 2007 Opps! I wonder how many patches will be coming and how soon... VP1-2-3...... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheTerrorist_75 Posted February 14, 2007 Report Share Posted February 14, 2007 Vista SP1 is supposedly due in the second half of 2007 around the time they release Longhorn Server. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hitest Posted February 14, 2007 Report Share Posted February 14, 2007 Given MS's habit of not completing it's products don't you think it is funny that Vista comes in a box with one rounded corner.they cut corners on everything else now it has moved into the advertising.The Box makes a true statement... "MS the king of cutting Corners"PrestonI'm a long time Linux user, but, I must say that Microsoft has its strong points. XP Pro identifies, mounts devices better than my favourite OS, Slackware. I've bashed MS in the past, but, I think it can be argued that there are good things about all OSs. MS is a favourite of many posters here at Besttechie.net. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sethook Posted February 14, 2007 Report Share Posted February 14, 2007 (edited) I would guess that had Microsoft never come along, most of the bashers would still be in their rooms with a box of Kleenex. I'm still waiting for them to write the bizillion lines of code required for an OS and launch it, problem free and hacker proof.Rant over...... Carry on. Edited February 14, 2007 by sethook Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Besttechie Posted February 14, 2007 Report Share Posted February 14, 2007 Windows Vista isn't a bad OS at all. In fact it's a great step forward for Microsoft. It offers many new features and improvements as well, not just a GUI makeover. If you're interested in reading a review; I wrote one myself on Vista: http://www.besttechie.net/2007/02/06/windo...ltimate-review/Btw Microsoft is working on their next OS as we speak which seems to be planned to come out in '09 I believe. The codename is Vienna. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
garmanma Posted February 14, 2007 Report Share Posted February 14, 2007 It's things like this, why I'm getting disappointed with M$" I tried to play Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot CD. Whoops! Not a single sound emerged from my speakers. After a little investigation, I found that Vista disables media outputs that don't incorporate DRM, when you try to play DRM protected media through them. That was a kick in the head. I have a fully legal CD in my hand. Any other version of Windows will play it, Linux will play it, Mac OS will play it, and my CD player will play it, but if you're using S/PDIF for your computer-driven audio and Vista, you're out of luck."Desktop Linux articleMark Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rhema7 Posted February 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 My comment was not to slight M$ it was just a funny observation about the box considering what usually happens when M$ releases an OS. It was ment to be funny.Preston Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jcl Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 (edited) " I tried to play Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot CD. Whoops! Not a single sound emerged from my speakers. After a little investigation, I found that Vista disables media outputs that don't incorporate DRM, when you try to play DRM protected media through them.According to MS, that's not true. Vista will disable S/PDIF if the content protection requests it, but not on its own initiative. WinME and XP are supposed to have the same feature. Edited February 16, 2007 by jcl Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JDoors Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 (edited) ... don't you think it is funny that Vista comes in a box with one rounded corner.They cut corners on everything else now it has moved into the advertising. ... Hoo-boy! It's official I guess, they cut corners. It's right there on the box!I would guess that had Microsoft never come along, most of the bashers would still be in their rooms with a box of Kleenex. I'm still waiting for them to write the bizillion lines of code required for an OS and launch it, problem free and hacker proof.Rant over...... Carry on. I happen to agree with you ... It's human nature to pick on the big guy (guess we inherited that from our ape ancestors, "testing" the dominant ape, poking at him to find the weaknesses -- not a behavior I'd be proud to display in public -- but then I'm not one to brawl in bars either).------[thumps chest] "Hoo-hoo! Ha! Ha! Vista sucks! Ree! Ree! Ree! Ree!" [/thumps chest] Edited February 16, 2007 by JDoors Quote Link to post Share on other sites
martymas Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 (edited) this discussion has been going on for yearspreston should no we had it techtvwhat puzzles me is we have these patchs from micro soft and all hell breaks loose from the windows anti lobby more so with the browsers but mozills firefox linux have the same problems and call them versionswhat are the difference ive just installed linux and ive found more bloody bugs than a bloody rose garden it wont handle 64bit from a windows platform ive just tried to install thunderbird inside the linux platform and cant were as i could do it in windowsthere is good and bad in all platforms or browsers firefox is an overated browser what can it do that i cant do in ie it isnt the application it is the applicator that is at faulttho ive had troubles with this new sys im still prepared to perservereand get it right.marty Edited February 17, 2007 by martymas Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 Its fun to pick on Microsoft :-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lefty1953 Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 Microsoft has been around how long now? Must be doing something right or I should say other OS's are just not working for the general public. Apple has what percent? Linux has what percent? Do other OS's run all the software on the shelf at the stores? Until the other OS's get with it, everyone will stick with MS. Nag nag nag and it's still the same. MS or M$ is always going to be M$. I which I had the money Gates has. And so does Apple and Linux. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubba Bob Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lefty1953 Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 Pass me some of that, it's a long movie. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JSKY Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 Just to let some of you know..Vista has a compatability wizard. You can choose to install programs under XP or older OS's. If it wont run normally under Vista, run the compatibility wizard and install under the XP compatibility mode.Fixed some things for me to get them working.See my post "Vista's Compatibility Wizard" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bearskin Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 my brother-in-law tried to install vista on his laptop....no go.seems toshiba doesn't have al the required mb drivers and/or we couldn't find them.well it worked somewhat...can't remember what the problem was.anyway he tried to go back to xp...nada...nien...nil....gonna have to format and reinstall xp. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Besttechie Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 my brother-in-law tried to install vista on his laptop....no go.seems toshiba doesn't have al the required mb drivers and/or we couldn't find them.well it worked somewhat...can't remember what the problem was.anyway he tried to go back to xp...nada...nien...nil....gonna have to format and reinstall xp.Hey bearskin,Do you know what model toshiba your brother-in-law has? I was able to install Vista on my toshiba laptop with no problems here. So I'd be curious to know. B Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 for whats it worth, i had no problems with my over one year old toshiba laptop. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JDoors Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 ... my over one year old toshiba laptop. THAT old clunker? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bearskin Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 my brother-in-law tried to install vista on his laptop....no go.seems toshiba doesn't have al the required mb drivers and/or we couldn't find them.well it worked somewhat...can't remember what the problem was.anyway he tried to go back to xp...nada...nien...nil....gonna have to format and reinstall xp.Hey bearskin,Do you know what model toshiba your brother-in-law has? I was able to install Vista on my toshiba laptop with no problems here. So I'd be curious to know. Bwhen I talk to him again I will find out all the info....he just asked me to try and find vista mb drivers...didn't tell me exactly what the problem was. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 ... my over one year old toshiba laptop. THAT old clunker? it is just a $400 Best Buy special. The only thing that sucks about it is its battery life. From day one I only got 1.5 hours. Now it is even less. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bearskin Posted February 21, 2007 Report Share Posted February 21, 2007 he has a toshiba Qosmio f25-rv205 about a year old.nvidia geforce 6 go 6600 multimedia card.everything works except for media player and sound.seems they are not quite up to date with the drivers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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