Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 13th Nov 2006 11:18 UTC
Windows 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[2]: Question
by sbenitezb on Mon 13th Nov 2006 12:40 UTC in reply to "RE: Question"
sbenitezb
Member since:
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"
miscz Member since:
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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RE[4]: Question
by sbenitezb on Mon 13th Nov 2006 14:40 in reply to "RE[3]: Question"
sbenitezb Member since:
2005-07-22

There are other distros that may be faster than SLED. And mono apps are really slow to start. Too much hyped. It reminds me of java 5 years ago (don't know about today improvements).

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RE[4]: Question
by Headrush on Mon 13th Nov 2006 14:51 in reply to "RE[3]: Question"
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2006-01-03

miscz said: "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."

I thinks its you. I just tested this on a Via CPU @ 1000Mhz and it was incredibly snappy. (Surprised me)

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RE[3]: Question
by merkoth on Mon 13th Nov 2006 13:26 in reply to "RE[2]: Question"
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2006-09-22

"Just" the applications you run? Well, IMHO, what really matters isn't the OS itself but the apps you can run on it and how they perform.

Nice review Thom, but I'm afraid that Vista isn't doing it to my desktop anytime soon.

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