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[Lakshmipathi]

Hi all,
I guess Today MS Much awaited vista released,
Check Out,
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...00reasons.mspx

It say "100 Reasons You'll Be Speechless"
"Seeing Windows Vista for the first time may leave you searching for words. Many people just say “Wow.” Here are 100 reasons why."

i don't have time to go through all of them.
They highlighted FOUR reasons(yes just four).i'm speechless
Pour in your or your friends experience with vista....

[carlosponti]

i posted some reasons on my blog
http://fredblotnic.blogspot.com/search/label/Vista

[genesus]

haha, those are funny highlighted reasons. THanks for the goodmorning laugh. I wish I had hardware capable of running vista smoothly...not that I want vista, but that would be a fast computer.

7. Because you can freeze time...


13. Because you need to know who the bad guys are...


24. Because you don't want to worry about spyware


50. Get more out of the web: Tabbed Browsing...

57. Because you don't need a PC to watch your home movies


66. Because everyone goofs sometimes

10. Surf more safely

Dynamic Security Protection in Windows Internet Explorer 7 helps protect your PC and your personal information when you're online. Internet Explorer 7 also includes many new features designed to help protect you against malware.


Some product features are only available in certain editions of Windows Vista and may require advanced or additional hardware.

[Lakshmipathi]

i posted some reasons on my blog
http://fredblotnic.blogspot.com/search/label/Vista

wow.....

[Lakshmipathi]

Just read first 10 things...Just repeating the same stuffs again and again.
It sounds like a school boy writing his examniation...

[flipjargendy]

8. Your PC can take care of itself

Performance Self Tuning, Self-Healing

Wow, don't have to worry about frying a motherboard, Vista will heal it with a loving touch.

[techieMoe]

Wow, don't have to worry about frying a motherboard, Vista will heal it with a loving touch.

Anyone else flashing back to E.T.? "Eeeeelllliiiioooooottttt. Ooooouuuuch!"

[Vergil83]

Some many of these are funny.

44. Because you have a need for speed

Need to speed up your computer? Simply plug a USB memory stick into your desktop or notebook computer and let Windows ReadyBoost do the rest.

Is this saying it will use your flash drive as extra ram/swap? That is something new I haven't heard about (it seems really stupid). I am sure your hard drive transfer speed is faster than an usb connection could be, so you would be better off using extra virtual memory.

[jens]

Some many of these are funny.


Is this saying it will use your flash drive as extra ram/swap? That is something new I haven't heard about (it seems really stupid). I am sure your hard drive transfer speed is faster than an usb connection could be, so you would be better off using extra virtual memory.

While MS is catching up, this release is still rather pathetic.
As for that *new* "ReadyBoost" feature, using external volumes for swap is already 30 years old.

None of the Vista features I liked from the first beta made it in the final release...

MS just filled a patent on a modular operating system:
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...DN/20060282899
That makes you wonder why the hell they're doing the opposite.

CLI integration is still very bad as well.

The GUI looks less bare as the XP one and Windows finally comes with some kind of security.

I really wonder how MS will manage to sell this as a new version(500 Euro for some bug fixes is insane).

Basically they just fixed some very obvious faults from XP and added some new GUI stuff.

It's not all all bad(but still bad), but it's also not worth the extra money.

[Farmer Mike]

The part that jumps out at me is:

"Some product features are only available in certain editions of Windows Vista and may require advanced or additional hardware."

Which means that you have to shell out a lot more money to the Microsoft Empire and their hardware manufacturer vassals to have a fully functioning installation of Windows.

I believe I can get a distro of Linux that will run on pretty much any computer made - fully functional and free.

I guess thats the difference between an OS made by businessmen to make money and one made by computer enthusiasts to make the computer run better.