“The new OS is designed to offer a shiny new user interface, better security, improved data organization and near-instantaneous search. It will be a major gaming platform release because it includes DirectX 10, an upgraded and rebuilt collection of application programming interfaces that, according to Microsoft, will offer six to eight times the graphics performance of DirectX 9.0. We’re opening our series of Windows Vista features with a look at the most striking feature of Vista, the 3D desktop and the new Aero interface.”
all the videos and screenshots produced so far, is just pointless eye-candy put out to wet the appetite of the kool-aid boys.
what use has this in a production setup ? thought so.. none
I agree, first microsoft takes out all the major selling points, then it pushes the release date further and further back, now it is saying it has a use for my $400 graphics card ? to draw a stupid skin and put slanted windows on the screen ?
no thanks microsoft, shove it up your ass, I will stick with XP until I got enough saved to move PERMANENTLY to Mac OSX (intel)
They took out all the major selling points eh? WinFS, yes, but will still be released. Then there’s uh… well… monad probably won’t be shipped WITH Vista, but will be out by that time… but that was never a major selling point for the consumer version of Vista.
Then there is uh… erm.. what is there?
Stuff that Linux and OS X users take for granted. Security! Less restarts! Better memory and task scheduler! etc etc
You mean they *took* those things *out* of Vista?
1) Monad was never announced to be shipping with Windows Vista – it was Windows fanboys and their crack-pipe-enduced hillucination which bought about that rumour.
2) WinFS was been removed, but there is still all the fancy features of searching – WinFS is more than just searching, just like CoreData on MacOS X is more than just part of Spotlight.
3) There are many other things in Vista that Microsoft can market – if you choose to live under a rock and refuse to research and find information about Windows Vista, thats your own choice, but don’t come into forums waving your finger around thinking you’ve got some sort of ‘superior knowledge’ that no one else has, and that your opinion carries more weight than any one elses.
Yes, I know all this, thanks anyway
Sorry, nazi raver31. Linux has failed on the desktop and there is nothing you or your fascist friends can do about it.
can we get this retard barkley banned ?
where did I mention Linux anywhere in that post ?
No Nazi31, you can’t get me banned. But thanks for exposing your fascist ways.
Raver31 is correct, we should get this retard banned. He comes on here insulting people for no reason other than he feels stupid because he cannto use linux.. then he shows his ignorance even more by calling raver31 a racist and a fascist in the same line.
can we start a petition to ban him ?
say your name below this post please
captain knobjockey
raver31
I agree that the comment was less than appropriate, but starting a petition in this thread would not be appropriate either. It would be off-topic.
Mod him down. The very first reason given for modding someone down is for offensive language and personal attacks. Use it.
E-mail is the preferred way to voice other complaints to the site administrators without going off-topic.
I apologize for going off-topic myself just to make this point.
While I am looking forward to Vista because honestly I dont want to switch to OS X primarily because of a variety of video editing tools I am used to and of course games…and the fact that I am more knowledgeable than average XP users so I can keep my machine safe from viruses and so on, but yeah I have to agree the interface is not the strong point. All that time and MS came out with that? Horrible!!!
Sun Microsystems Project Looking Glass, looks familiar?
DX10 will only deliver six to eight times the performance assuming you bought the latest, most expensive, high-end video card from Nvidia or ATI.
Almost.
Yeah, and anyway the new features and performances from these new GPUs will be available in OpenGL aswell.
Vista is impressive.
– New graphics system.
– New network system.
– New user interface.
And whole lot more. It is certainly an experience one should look forward to. And for those foaming in the mouth, read the article, it’s insightful.
I think it’s sad that Mystilleef was modded down just for expressing enthusiasm about Vista.
Vista is impressive when compared directly to XP. That comparison may not seem as positive for Vista when you take into account that it has been several years since the release of XP. Vista may not seem as impressive either when compared to what the competition already has to offer and what the competition will be trying to release before or close to the time that Vista is released. Most consumers aren’t going to be thinking about those kinds of things though.
Most people will be evaluating Vista based on what it is. Vista is Windows, and for all of the smaller improvements it will be a significant improvement over XP as a whole. There are many people who will never use anything other than Windows including many corporate officers. So, a lot of things that I might think about Vista will be seen differently by many users.
What will matter is how soon Vista can be relied upon for daily use and whether or not using Vista will be enjoyable. I have to say that regardless of whatever else I think about Vista, MS seems to be trying to make it as widely tested as possible so that it will be as stable as possible when released, and whether you care about the eye candy or not, MS has improved Vista to the point that I think it will be far better in use than XP.
I’ve never tried a demo of Vista, and to be honest I can’t think where a 3d effect would be useful, but at least it’s an attempt at moving foward. In terms of user experience, Windows hasn’t really moved forwards since 95, or possibly 98, Same Start button, same shorcuts on desktop, task bar, and all that.
It might just be “useless eyecandy”, but if you check out this channel9 video, it’s pretty impressive: http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=170670.
All of this stuff is so dead easy to get working that it will totally change the way people design interfaces for software. Sure, people are going to use it for evil too, but Avalon will give designers a huge amount of direct power over the look of software.
Even though Microsoft’s OS features are rarely for users (like most of Avalon, which is a great boon for devs), Vista will have a lot of stuff users will like. Per-application volume settings, for one, will be enabled by the entirely new audio stack. Faster application launching using superfetch. Better text rendering. Better security against spyware and viruses.
This is stuff users will be able to see. Developers will see a whole lot more. The kernel has major new features, like Transaction Management to make atomic groups of file-related calls (even network requests), restart management facilities (to reboot a machine without destroying the users’ state), easier programming models for just about everything from drivers to audio, to graphics.
I, for one, am going to care about Vista much more than I cared about Win2k when I first switched to it from 9x.
My main beef against the new OS is going to be the price. In this new era of open source, I think Microsoft ought to give it away to existing Windows users and charge a nominal fee for new users.
I am not willing to pay $200-$300 for 1 copy of an OS
that will feature some new functionalities and a lot of new eye candy.
Because you are not willing to pay $200-$300 for Vista, would it be possible to give the OpenBSD project a few bucks….? They really need it and they deserve it:-)
Thanks
A xxx-BSD user