Jasper Posted June 16, 2007 Posted June 16, 2007 I switched from Mac OS X. You don't het those a lot.
McPhee Posted June 17, 2007 Posted June 17, 2007 More than you'd think Jasper. From figures i've been reading the proportion of Mac users that switch to Windows is about the same as those that switch from Windows to Mac. The difference is that there are more Windows users to begin with The only real answer is a dual Windows/Mac system or a tripple Windows/Mac/Linux for the truly hardcore!
KKOB Posted June 17, 2007 Posted June 17, 2007 More than you'd think Jasper. From figures i've been reading the proportion of Mac users that switch to Windows is about the same as those that switch from Windows to Mac. The difference is that there are more Windows users to begin with The only real answer is a dual Windows/Mac system or a tripple Windows/Mac/Linux for the truly hardcore! Yet Apple are continually gaining market share-especially in laptops-so i think the balance of 'switchers' from and to OS X is in favor of Apple. I always thought i'd get XP on my mac, but i just haven't saw a reason to for me yet. Only thing would be games, and hopefully that situations going to be a bit better soon. Anywhoo, Vista . . . WOW . . . <hic>
Letty Posted June 17, 2007 Posted June 17, 2007 Who here has played Purble Palace? Seriously, its supposedly a kids game, but its so difficult! Especially the cake one
AshMat Posted June 17, 2007 Posted June 17, 2007 Im getting the business edition when i get my new pc. (cause i get it free)
Tellyn Posted June 17, 2007 Posted June 17, 2007 If I were to look into getting Vista in the future, would all my XP files (Word, PowerPoint, images, videos etc.) work on Vista?
Marshmellow Posted June 17, 2007 Posted June 17, 2007 Im getting the business edition when i get my new pc. (cause i get it free) You should get Home Premium, unless you use businessy type apps. But Home Premium, comes with a lot more 'Media' apps then Business edition does. Comparison
Tellyn Posted June 17, 2007 Posted June 17, 2007 yes bloomin char limit!! Cool. What about games? i.e. Guild Wars, Battle for Middle-Earth, Zoo Tycoon etc.
Guest Jordan Posted June 17, 2007 Posted June 17, 2007 Cool. What about games? i.e. Guild Wars, Battle for Middle-Earth, Zoo Tycoon etc. 99.9% of programs (apps, games etc.) will run on Vista just fine. Drivers are still a little bit of a bitch mind, but you should have no problem if you have major company products.
Cube Posted June 17, 2007 Posted June 17, 2007 One question: Does Windows DVD Maker accept ANY video format?
Marshmellow Posted June 17, 2007 Posted June 17, 2007 I don't know about any. But when I first got Vista I couldn't burn XviDs with it. (Had a green bar through half the picture) But now I can. So I doubt it can do any format but it's getting better and can do a lot.
Guest Jordan Posted June 18, 2007 Posted June 18, 2007 One question: Does Windows DVD Maker accept ANY video format? Yes, afaik. All you need are the codecs and it should be able to de/encode into it.
Eddage Posted June 18, 2007 Posted June 18, 2007 Is there a way to make it so that Vista Sidebar is still showing when you press the show desktop button?
Sanchez Posted June 18, 2007 Posted June 18, 2007 My sidebar doesn't dissapear when I show desktop...
Guest Jordan Posted June 18, 2007 Posted June 18, 2007 Is there a way to make it so that Vista Sidebar is still showing when you press the show desktop button? Right click it > Properties Arranagement box: Tick the = Sidebar is always on top of other windows box.
Sanchez Posted June 18, 2007 Posted June 18, 2007 I was bored so for shits and giggles I decided to give vista my own sort of stability test. http://www.soifall.net/uploader/uploads/aero.jpg Resource usage in the top right, Vista manages to display 7 h264, fairly high res videos without slowdown (video or system or otherwise) and it doesn't even max my CPU usage. Cool.
Eddage Posted June 19, 2007 Posted June 19, 2007 Right click it >Properties Arranagement box: Tick the = Sidebar is always on top of other windows box. Mmmmmm, thanks, but is there not a way to make it so that windows will go over the top of it but then the sidebar will still be visible when you press the desktop button?
Blue_Ninja0 Posted June 20, 2007 Posted June 20, 2007 Mmmmmm, thanks, but is there not a way to make it so that windows will go over the top of it but then the sidebar will still be visible when you press the desktop button? No i think that is not possible. It's strange it disapears when we click show desktop.
=NukeBlaze= Posted June 26, 2007 Posted June 26, 2007 Vista = Xp + new shell + DRM/WGAplus + forced DX10 "feature" + No fundamental change of security. I've used it, I've installed it. I dislike vista, enough to divert all future upgrades to a flavor of Linux on XP duel boot or just using WINE. I am done fixing windows problems and BETA testing their commercial OS releases until they droll along a service pack. Work has already begun on exporting DX10 library to work on XP via third parties. It anger me to no end Microsoft would fabricate that turd of a fact to claim that "DX10 is too complex for XP implementation".
Caris Posted June 26, 2007 Posted June 26, 2007 MS have said there wont be any service packs for vista just updates.
=NukeBlaze= Posted June 26, 2007 Posted June 26, 2007 ^ When large clients, such as intel's CEO Paul Otellini, claim they are waiting for a service pack before considering implementation, I doubt whatever Microsoft wants to claim on their PR line. Implementation of SPs has been cumbersome for the IT people due to fear of items no longer working, but this is the same for updates. The XP SPs at least served as benchmarks for the 3 levels of XP, original/SP1/SP2. I do not see how they are going to go the "update route", especially because without the SP lands , I imagine it would drive admins crazy keeping track of the hundreds of combinations of upgrades without these marks of stagnation. Regardless, the official word to my knowledge is a VISTA SP later this year early 2008 more likely, with the RUMOR of no SPs at all. Below is a Vista developer blog, which again supports the mentioned SP1 for vista. SP1 is not the rumor currently, it is the lack of one which is. http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/04/03/not-a-post-on-sp1.aspx
Shino Posted June 26, 2007 Posted June 26, 2007 Jesus Christ, you must eat open source PR for launch. The fact that you only said nonsense, only makes me think that your try was less than 1 minute during boot. The fact that it has updates or SPs only indicates that they keep up, like any other OS, and no, Vista as it is isn't a beta of any sorts. Get over your bias. I don't know why people come this aggressively to EVERY windows, it doesn't make you sound more knowledgeable in front of people that have actually used it.
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