what do you think of it (so far)?

Agree with you Colin, but actually the 'protect you from yourself mode' with
Vista makes me think that the federal government wrote the code. When the
administrator has no administrator rights, its time to stand up and 'yell'.

On the whole Vista is pretty and has some neat maintenance features,
but I wonder how MS plans on selling this to all of us who do not go throwing
money around. (see, US gov't again). Am running Vista in dual boot with
XPx64, and XPx64 may not be pretty, but it hums along and is easily as quick
as Vista.

"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

> Too early for me. The screen dimming stuff with UAC irritates me beyond
> words. It's too Halloweenish. It'll wind up being another joking point for
> Mac and Linux users. I can see the "I'm a Mac...I'm a PC" commercial now
> where the PC guy just goes dark for ten seconds.
>
> "T5" <noanswer@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:O0vQ2PEpGHA.1440@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

> > It is growing on me, what do you all think?
> >
> > Or os it too early to tell?

>
>
>

It's definitely an improvement and much better poised to take advantage of
current and future hardware. I'll be building a machine just for Vista to
use as my main work platform soon after the product releases.

I don't think they'll sell many upgrades on this one though (not that they
ever do). It'll become mainstream by being pre-installed on new machines.



"T5" <noanswer@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:O0vQ2PEpGHA.1440@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

> It is growing on me, what do you all think?
>
> Or os it too early to tell?

XP x64 is the solidest Windows yet. 95% of Vista installations will be
preinstalled on new computers as is the case with XP now. As for the other
5% (folks like us), we tend to buy the latest OS anyway.

"JackM" <JackM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:655C5462-4145-4973-8E47-981BCD963393@microsoft.com...

> Agree with you Colin, but actually the 'protect you from yourself mode'
> with
> Vista makes me think that the federal government wrote the code. When the
> administrator has no administrator rights, its time to stand up and
> 'yell'.
>
> On the whole Vista is pretty and has some neat maintenance features,
> but I wonder how MS plans on selling this to all of us who do not go
> throwing
> money around. (see, US gov't again). Am running Vista in dual boot with
> XPx64, and XPx64 may not be pretty, but it hums along and is easily as
> quick
> as Vista.
>
> "Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
>

>> Too early for me. The screen dimming stuff with UAC irritates me beyond
>> words. It's too Halloweenish. It'll wind up being another joking point
>> for
>> Mac and Linux users. I can see the "I'm a Mac...I'm a PC" commercial now
>> where the PC guy just goes dark for ten seconds.
>>
>> "T5" <noanswer@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:O0vQ2PEpGHA.1440@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>> > It is growing on me, what do you all think?
>> >
>> > Or os it too early to tell?

>>
>>
>>

I love the slickness of movement between progs and windows, I also love the
new high def, easy view icons, texts etc (for someone with failing eyesight
, due to years of looking into a monitor)

Media player 11 is awesome, I positioned a 7.1 surround sound system and
then configured Nvidia mixer and then let rip with Freebird (full version)
at near on full volume and it was amazing, (even the folks round here
enjoyed it) ............... I am still waiting for the anti social behaviour
notice to arrive from the folks in the next village though


"Alan Simpson" <alan@coolnerds.com> wrote in message
news:627C9E29-EBBB-45DA-89AD-D4D9482D3753@microsoft.com...

> It's definitely an improvement and much better poised to take advantage of
> current and future hardware. I'll be building a machine just for Vista to
> use as my main work platform soon after the product releases.
>
> I don't think they'll sell many upgrades on this one though (not that they
> ever do). It'll become mainstream by being pre-installed on new machines.
>
>
>
> "T5" <noanswer@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:O0vQ2PEpGHA.1440@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>> It is growing on me, what do you all think?
>>
>> Or os it too early to tell?

>

> XP x64 is the solidest Windows yet.

Seeking an opinion on this...how would you compare it with Server 2003 x64?
Last time I rebuilt my dev machine I was hesitating between the two (I have
both through MSDN), and XP x64 won out, purely out of my familiarity with XP
x86 over 2003...

No difference. They are the very same codebase. XP Pro x64 is based on
Windows Server 2003 SP1 (not XP SP2).

"Homer J. Simpson" <root@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
news:%235GOPuFpGHA.756@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

>> XP x64 is the solidest Windows yet.

>
> Seeking an opinion on this...how would you compare it with Server 2003
> x64? Last time I rebuilt my dev machine I was hesitating between the two
> (I have both through MSDN), and XP x64 won out, purely out of my
> familiarity with XP x86 over 2003...
>

The darking the screen also irritates me for UAC. Why don't just bring up
the UAC instead of darking the screen? It also slows the computer down (as
I see a delay before the UAC window appears) when it has to dark the screen.
I know it's doing that to probably get your attention, but it's overkill.
Why don't they just make the UAC window bright colors to get your attention
as opposed to darking out your screen?
"JackM" <JackM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:655C5462-4145-4973-8E47-981BCD963393@microsoft.com...

> Agree with you Colin, but actually the 'protect you from yourself mode'
> with
> Vista makes me think that the federal government wrote the code. When the
> administrator has no administrator rights, its time to stand up and
> 'yell'.
>
> On the whole Vista is pretty and has some neat maintenance features,
> but I wonder how MS plans on selling this to all of us who do not go
> throwing
> money around. (see, US gov't again). Am running Vista in dual boot with
> XPx64, and XPx64 may not be pretty, but it hums along and is easily as
> quick
> as Vista.
>
> "Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
>

>> Too early for me. The screen dimming stuff with UAC irritates me beyond
>> words. It's too Halloweenish. It'll wind up being another joking point
>> for
>> Mac and Linux users. I can see the "I'm a Mac...I'm a PC" commercial now
>> where the PC guy just goes dark for ten seconds.
>>
>> "T5" <noanswer@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:O0vQ2PEpGHA.1440@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>> > It is growing on me, what do you all think?
>> >
>> > Or os it too early to tell?

>>
>>
>>

In article <O0vQ2PEpGHA.1440@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>, noanswer@hotmail.com
says...

> It is growing on me, what do you all think?
>
> Or os it too early to tell?
>

Yeah, I agree with that. It's growing on me too. The more time I spend
with Vista Beta 2 exploring the features, etc. the better I like it. Also,
contrary to what I expected it runs very well.