Microsoft: Set your systems for Vista

ZDnet ^ | May 18, 2006 | Ina Fried

[mkjessup]

Hostile Le Vista Baby.

[balrog666]

I must be missing something here.

Why would anyone want VISTA? What advantages does it bring to the table, if any? Are all my past software purchases compatible with it and, if not, why not?

[Revolting cat!]

ouch, my eyes !

Which ones?!

[zeugma]

That's not always true. sometimes the hardware will go caput on you...like if your CPU overheats. It will just turn off without even telling the OS.

You're right. In those circumstances, it is beyond any OS's control. Kinda like just pulling the plug. No OS can help you if there ain't no power.

  I like the way 2003 handles that though. It at least tells you your computer was shutdown unexpectantly when you reboot.

Yup. Some more recent versions of MS-windows ask you to type in a reason for a reboot when it either shuts down or restarts. Pretty good housekeeping idea, if the information is accessible.

[Revolting cat!]

It's FICTION, people! Geez!

[Radix]

"Will Vista ship with paragraphs pre-installed?

I knew that was coming about 2 seconds after checking in here.

[Echo Talon]

YOu already can get a state of the art OS. Just buy a MAC with OS X. The next version will allow you to load Vista as bootcamp will be part of it. You'll have the best of both worlds.

No thanks, I like the options with a PC better.

[RadioAstronomer]

I build my own. They pretty much smoke any "store-bought" brand (except possibly the very top end Alienware stuff)

[RadioAstronomer]

Just buy a MAC with OS X

My PC will do more of what I need.

Also Nvidia SLI will smoke any Mac ever built.

[Echo Talon]

Why would anyone want VISTA? What advantages does it bring to the table, if any?

dual physical processor support, and support for 128 GB of memory.

doesn't sound to shabby.

[Echo Talon]

I build my own. They pretty much smoke any "store-bought" brand (except possibly the very top end Alienware stuff)

Alienware stinks, Falcon NW is the king.

www.falcon-nw.com

[js1138]

W2k and XP support multiple processors. I don't know if the consumer versions support two dual core CPUs, but I have seen screen prints of Task manager on a dual core hyperthreaded CPU systing displaying four processors.

[MD_Willington_1976]

There is nothing superior about apple hardware... they use the same components.

[Revolting cat!]

According to my independently verified calculations Vista will actually be MS-DOS v13.0.

[Syntyr]

"I haven't seen a Windows BSOD since 1998 on any of my six computers that I've owned since 1998. They have all run with one form of windows or another."

I have a Windox XP Media Center box at home and XP Pro desktop at work as well as a Compaq (not HP) Laptop.

The Home PC is logged in to my Citrix serevr at work and all of my PC's have gotomypc.com on them. I can access all three boxes from anywhere. They all have MS Office 2003 Pro as well as Macromedia, Visio, Flash and a ton of other software on them. The home box has all of my games everyting from Flight Sim 2004 to Splinter Cell.

My uptime counters according to Citrix or Goto My PC are:

Home PC at 143 days, 16 hours
Work PC at 89 days 4 hours
Laptop at 17 days 2 hours

I haven't had a BSOD or forced restart since I can remember with these boxes.
Work PC is a Dell optiplex.
Laptop Compaq 3015US
Home PC Built myself but only use premium components - Soyo Motherboard, 2 gig Mushkin RAM, Boxed Intel CPU, Western DIgital Raptor Harddrives.

Build them right and they are like tanks. Just my experience.

I like Linux too the only problem I have is it takes too freaking long to install... :)

[Syntyr]

"except possibly the very top end Alienware stuff"

You mean Dell :)

[blowfish]

Why would anyone want VISTA? What advantages does it bring to the table, if any?

It brings your money to Mr. Gates table.It also provide a predictable platform for microsoft to attempt to impose it's flavor of DRM on the world. You decide if that's advantageous.

[Echo Talon]

I have seen blue screens with WinXP, but that was my fault NOT a problem with XP... I was going for extreme overclocking and exceeded the hardware(processor, memory) capabilities.

[RadioAstronomer]

I bet my machine still smokes em (or comes close)

I875, 965 processor, SLI 7900gtx cards, etc. :-)

[Echo Talon]

W2k and XP support multiple processors. I don't know if the consumer versions support two dual core CPUs, but I have seen screen prints of Task manager on a dual core hyperthreaded CPU systing displaying four processors.

WinXP Pro will support 2 processors(not XP Home) also WinXP only supports 4GB of ram.