The Customer Preview Program for Windows Vista has reopened. Release Candidate 1 can be ordered on DVD from Microsoft or can be downloaded directly. The site is issuing new evaluation serial numbers as well, so that new testers, who do not have previously handed-out keys, can also download this release candidate. You can obviously post your experiences in the comments.
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Member since:2005-07-06
Also keep in mind im bored with XP and vista isn't any real improvement over xp from what I've seen. At this point I have more faith in linux becoming more.. I don't want to say useable over vista so much as more enjoyable over vista.
Question if Vista is worth the 200$ upgrade is open, I agree. But really, the fact that you won't upgrade because Vista has no "real" improvements over XP is frankly groundless. Who made any REAL improvement in their desktop OS in last 10 years? No-one unless you think that cosmetic updates are real improvements. We still use the same metaphor and concepts of late 70s and that's all. Then, someone puts a button here or there but really that's not so blatant.
Still, if you look behind the hoods, you will find many improvements in Vista which makes a better XP. The bare audio improvements will make Linux developers busy for years in the attempt to emulate.
Until we have some technological shift, desktop OSes will be the same with a few improvements dued to hardware evolution (for ex, you have lots of horsepower in your CPUs today and you can have a service running in background and indexing your HD contents. Nothing revolutionary, though).
Still, the fact that MS is not lowering Windows prices means that they do not feel any threat in that space. And I think they're right.
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2005-10-01
You think you wouldn't experience usability problems, troubles with SMB, and so on under Linux? If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you...
I know theres problems under linux.. Ive been useing it off and on sence around 1996. My point was that if im going to deal with useablity problems such as that I may as well use linux insted of paying 200+$ for vista. Also keep in mind im bored with XP and vista isn't any real improvement over xp from what I've seen. At this point I have more faith in linux becoming more.. I don't want to say useable over vista so much as more enjoyable over vista.