Save XP Petition.

Microsoft is the company you love to hate.
I / we will move to vista ultimately.
Windows 7 sucks sign the save vista petition!
I have a cat and I love MG.
That about wraps it up I think.

 

I think Halo is the only one who agrees with me about Vista being a good O/S.

I've already said about how everyone hated XP when it was first released. It's just the same thing happening with Vista.

Everyone will grow to love Vista, just like they did with XP.

Halo, what base score do you get? 5.6 here.

Regards Jason

 

I never said it wasn't. I just disagree how microsoft is handling its "phasing in"

 

Sorry ACE 256 I haven't looked at every post lol.

One thing I've seen many people saying is driver compatibility. However, I've had a no problems whatsoever and a simple google search goes a long way.

It just really annoys me when many people say Vista is a rubbish O/S when they haven't even tried it.

Regards Jason

 

I agree mate. I'm building a new computer this year, going to be putting an Intel 45nm processor in, which one I don't know yet, but we'll see.

I see many people spending a lot of money on video cards, well not here. I'd prefer a decent video card (not a lot of cash) than a very expensive video card. What's the expensive video card going to do, get better than the next person in a benchmark test, for it only to be an average card six months down the line? No thank you!

I think my ATI HD3870 will do me fine

Regards Jason

 

5.8. I win.

 

That's good mate, but as Halo said, your score will change in time, due to new hardware being released ect.

My system is fine, I couldn't really ask for more.

Regards Jason

 

Never let a girl join a "who's got the biggest toy?"-contest.

But for a year old, 5.5 is very good... you win on a relative time scale?

 

Mine was also built over a year a go

Regards Jason

 

Hmmm… I wish Microsoft would make their next OS basic looking and then create downloadable Mods that could be grafted to the OS.

That way the operating system could fit on virtually any machine and still achieve optimal functionality and the user would have the option/ choice to make it pretty.

My biggest quarrel with vista is it doesn’t seem like they improved on the “limitations” of XP, hence less reason to upgrade.

Also, though it does seem like Microsoft is forcing Vista down peoples throats, it’s essentially still XP so people are still going to find ways to make their Halo 2 work on XP- I found ways on youtube

I'm sure some day when it's convenient for me I'll upgrade to the latest windows OS which will probably be Windows 7 because the change will be so radical that I’ll have to upgrade.

 

i just read the petition, and it wants to have microsoft keep windows xp available and supported forever? isn't that a little long?

 

I guess the question I would ask, how hard is it to use older drivers? Even a conversion would be better than the current setup. As is, some hardware works only with Vista, some other hardware only works with XP (or older). Other than bleeding edge game machines this strikes me as pretty stupid. Nowdays I see a lot of games that won't work with older hardware (especially video cards) that look considerably worse than their older counterparts, which (to me) says it was basic laziness on the programmers part.

My impression about Direct X was it's ability to overcome this to some extent. Even with the admittedly large variation in hardware the games (and other stuff) could use a standard set of commands to communicate with all the AV accessories.

 

Sure, I wasn't going to get into It because I didn't want my first message to be too long. I think you can only have about 200 windows open at any given time and then it won't let you open any more... Also, I don’t think it is possible to open multiple applications at once, which would be really useful…

Here’s an example: Lets pretend you’re an engineer and you keep the programs you use most frequently in a cluster on your desktop like AutoCAD, SketchUp, etc… To open them you have to click on one, and then go back to your desktop then click on another. You don’t have the power to just highlight what you want to run and right-click open them do you?
Anyway the limitations are kind of minute but they’re still limitations. I can’t really think of a lot of stuff at the moment. I'm sure if you put your mind to it you can find things to gripe about.

Yeah I've actually seen that video before, and it seems interesting. What I'd really like to see is Windows start and run functionality with Linux customizability/ verity. I'm sure Microsoft will get it right with W7.

 

OK, a couple of real big huh's here!:confused You're griping about not having more than 200 Windows open, yet you're saying that you can't open multiple applications in Vista? I need a couple of more pots of coffee.http://bestsmileys.com/coffee/1.gif

 

Batch files are your friend.

 

I hate friends

I'd rather reprogram the OS to let me do what I want it to... That is if I knew jack about ANY computer languages

 

There is always Linux.

 

I didn't know Charlie Brown's friend was a programmer! roflmao

I don't think it is really all Vista's fault. I haven't done any programming since Microsoft Basic was on my TRS-80. I would always find fault with the apps I used and re-write them to work MY way.
Today, it's the same way. No matter how well I like an app, there is something that could have been written in to make easier or more versatile, or was completely omitted. That's why there are so many revised versions of apps. Feedback is the key! If the writers don't know what we think, they can't improve on it.

 

I did the upgrade from XP Pro to Vista Home Premium last week. It took about 1 hour to complete. It was even nice enough to save all my program files in a windows.old folder so I could just copy them back - which worked for most of my apps without needing a reinstall first.

I went in with full expectation of never-ending problems and I came out very impressed with Vista. It was a flawless transition and to add to my happiness, DX10 games look incredible. I'm very happy with my upgrade to Vista and this is coming from an IT professional that has heard all the horror stories so I was prepared for a mess. I'm wondering what all the fuss is about now. Perhaps more time is needed to find all the flaws?

 

Im a nobody but I have had 95 98 xp used vista, Im stuck on xp but still willing to try new if I didnt, I wouldnt get anywhere....:wave Im actually having a little fun trying to figure some of this out on my own Im sure I will be trying vista in future so be waiting for my questions everyone..