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First Superficial Look: Windows Vista RTM

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 13th Nov 2006 11:18 UTC

Last week, Microsoft announced that Windows Vista went gold, and was released to manufacturing. The release has been long coming (five years of work) and was surrounded by controversies, rumours of rewrites, and legal threats by Microsoft's competitors. We got our hands on the RTM build (Microsoft Windows 6.0 (Build 6000)), so read on for the first superficial look at Windows Vista Ultimate.

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RE: Question

by Thom_Holwerda on Mon 13th Nov 2006 11:47 UTC in reply to "Question"

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2005-06-29

Hey, good question.

Well, I think they are on par, mostly. Simply put, SLED 10 has all the advantages and disadvantages of being Linux �nd has a pretty interface, while Vista has all advantages and disadvantages of being Windows �nd has a pretty interface.

They both failed miserably in the touchpad department, in any case.

Edited 2006-11-13 11:47

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RE[2]: Question

by sbenitezb on Mon 13th Nov 2006 12:40 in reply to "RE: Question"

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2005-07-22

But still Vista needs more hardware to run. And Linux mostly runs better than Windows given the same hardware. Right now, the only thing that gives Windows any advantage is the applications that run on it.

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RE[3]: Question

by miscz on Mon 13th Nov 2006 12:58 in reply to "RE[2]: Question"

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2005-07-17

Maybe it's just me but on two computers I tried SLED it's really slow, don't even get me started on YaST or this auto-updater thing using Mono. It's just as slow or maybe slower than Vista.

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