Few Rush Out to Buy New Windows Vista

Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:26 PM EST

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Jessica Mintz, AP Technology Writer

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LuisF

Why would you buy this?

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7 votes

#1 - Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:52 PM EST

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Wolfanoz

Oh, there are many reasons to but it's a little premature.

Even John Carmack is saying there's no reason to buy a new GPU / install Vista until the majority of games require them.

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#1.1 - Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:54 PM EST

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LuisF

Really? Name some.

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#1.2 - Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:26 PM EST

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LuisF

OSX Tiger is the best bet in my book......Solaris aint that bad either!

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1 vote

#1.5 - Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:52 PM EST

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Pete ZaHutt

Microsoft shares fell 21 cents to $30.32 in afternoon trading Tuesday on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

Vista's a loser!

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6 votes

#2 - Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:08 PM EST

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Vicky F.

I never upgrade until a lot of people have it. XP's cool with me for now.

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2 votes

#3 - Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:12 PM EST

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rrobbins

I'm afraid some my hardware will not work with Vista. I have a Presonus Firebox and a video capture card that only work with Windows XP. However, I do have a barebones box that needs to be completed and I may put Vista on that.

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2 votes

#4 - Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:39 PM EST

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Benno Hansen

Someone should call foul play. Vista does the MS trademark trick over again.

They don't have it support many of it's new functions on a lot of somewhat recent hardware. "Sorry sir, you have to buy a new laptop" - to have your windows flying around. Then how come that same hardware will do the trick running Linux?

And then there is all the new certified website, certified software crap. They really try to act Big Brother.

I never liked them. I never liked them less.

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2 votes

#4.1 - Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:51 PM EST

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Wolfanoz

Because some people can't afford to drop $1,500+ on a brand new system to run a $400 OS.

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3 votes

#5 - Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:52 PM EST

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David Villavicencio

I like XP but I also like Linux and I'm still very happy with Linux. I hardly ever use windows unless I have to. But it's always fun to play around with the latest tools to see what they can do.

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2 votes

#6 - Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:57 PM EST

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JoulesBeef

Microsoft has admitted before that their os is broken. No more so than vista a bare shadow of what longhorn had promised to be. Main reason to get it will be hd movies and directx games, yeah i know about the drm.
But even bill gates knows they are going to have to bite the bullet on backward compatibility and quit building on a broken engine.

I played with vista for a while, there are a bunch of little cool things, that make it seem cool, the new security protection will annoy people far more than any firewall has. I had the UAE ask me 6 times if i was sure i wanted to delete something only to tell me i lacked the permission to do so. Sure i can turn it off(and lose that security) but the adverage user will not know how to do this.

also in the beginning you have to look for vista compatible drivers and security programs. Some less common components wont work right away with vista. And you will need new versions of firewall and virus scanners and such.. there are free versions but most people feel safer with something they bought.

concidering the crazy drm coming with vista, you may want to wait for them to get the bugs out before you buy a monitor that wont let you play hd movies on it.(it has laready been cracked which means it will be patched.. etc)

and if that doesnt convince you not to run out and get vista..know that they are already busy testing service pack I

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#7 - Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:29 PM EST

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JoulesBeef

I should note in my experince with the security thing, i was trying to delete the directory of vmware that had crashed during install. It did not create an entry in add/remove (which has been renamed to programs something and was fusterating when i wanted to find it only to find my program not listed)
I was logged in as a administrator of the computer and it still wouldnt let me delete the directory created. i ended up getting a more vista friendly beta version of vmware and was able to add and uninstall it.

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#7.1 - Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:32 PM EST

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gecko85

But even bill gates knows they are going to have to bite the bullet on backward compatibility and quit building on a broken engine.

Which is exactly what Apple did with OS X. At first they included a version of OS 9 bundled with OS X that could run "Classic" mode for those older OS 9 applications...but it wasn't long before they phased out ALL support for OS 9. Sure, some people kicked and screamed, but it was for the better and had to be done. Until Microsoft has the stones to do something similar, Windows will continue to have its issues...

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1 vote

#7.2 - Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:42 PM EST

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Faruk Ates

Just FYI: Classic apps were no longer supported once Apple made the switch to Intel processors. The new Intel architecture would have required Apple to create Rosetta emulation emulating the Classic environment — ergo, double emulation. That'd be silly, as well as kind of useless as most every Classic app had since (4,5 years!) been upgraded to a native OS X app anyway.

I truly feel that Microsoft should have done the same — start with a brand new codebase but create an emulation layer for old apps. Running with this ancient legacy code and building on top of it has given them nothing but problems, and that happened in the past already. You'd think they'd have learned…

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#7.3 - Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:55 AM EST

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toosday

There won't be a big number of upgrades until people start buying new computrs (around the holiday shopping season).

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#8 - Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:27 AM EST

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Faruk Ates

Win95 was a major step up from Win 3.11 — as it turns out, most of the world seems to agree that Windows Vista isn't a major step up from Windows XP. For something that took considerably longer by comparison, that's a really big issue.

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1 vote

#8.2 - Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:29 PM EST

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