Its got Quake IV Demo and Cold War Demo on the DVD... ;)
See how the window look like liquid/jelly? hehe
Posted on 12/13/2006 8:22:40 PM PST by Zakeet
After five years of starts, stops, executive shuffling, feature rethinks and delays, Windows Vista is finally complete. It’s available to corporations already, and starting Jan. 30, it’s what you’ll get on any new PC. Its programmers, who probably haven’t seen their families in months, will have an especially merry Christmas this year.
So after five years, how is Windows Vista? Microsoft’s description, which you’ll soon be seeing in millions of dollars’ worth of advertising, is “Clear, Confident, Connected.” But a more truthful motto would be “Looks, Locks, Lacks.”
Looks
Windows Vista is beautiful. Microsoft has never taken elegance so seriously before.
Discreet eye candy is partly responsible. Windows and menus cast subtle shadows. A new typeface gives the whole affair a fresh, modern feeling. Subtle animations liven up the proceedings.
If the description so far makes Vista sound a lot like the Macintosh, well, you’re right. You get the feeling that Microsoft’s managers put Mac OS X on an easel and told the programmers, “Copy that.”
Here are some of the grace notes that will remind you of similar ones on the Mac: A list of favorite PC locations appears at the left side of every Explorer window, which you can customize just by dragging folders in or out. You now expand or collapse lists of folders by clicking little flippy triangles. When you’re dragging icons to copy them, a cursor “badge” appears that indicates how many you’re moving. The Minimize, Maximize and Close buttons glow when your cursor passes over them. There’s now a keystroke (Alt+up arrow) to open the current folder’s parent window, the one that contains it.
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I think "pool" should be "poll."
I am a Norwegian native living in Chicago. I moved to the US in 2004 after I graduated from the University of Olso (UiO) with a focus in mathematics. When I am not writing I work part time as an actuary for law firms in Chicago.
You can email me at sven at dailytech.com.
Contact Sven... Actually he sounds like me, I was better in math than I was in English(my worst subject).
MS may well have a terrible implementation. But whether the eye candy takes a little overhead or a lot, it's still an unnecessary distraction that interferes with getting things done.
Again, a Microsoft problem. Unix (of which OS X is a variant) lets you do pretty much everything you need without having root ("Administrator" in Windows).
It's true that XP doesn't make it as easy to run as root, although my understanding is that this is one of the areas Vista has improved. But "pretty much everything [I] need" isn't available in a non-Microsoft OS, so relative ease of root access in other operating systems is moot.
My definition of "productivity" in an OS isn't how easy it is to install programs, or how many open-source free apps are available, or how "smooth" the interface is. It's whether my business data is presented to me in a clear, universal format. It's whether I can have a detailed list of every one of my customers, with a list of all our previous interactions, that gets every email and every document sent or received automatically linked to that client for easy browsing. It's whether I can get a file in one vendor's format, cut and paste objects into my own preferred editing format, and then send the compiled info out in a third format, and have all of that data at my fingertips when and how I want it. MS, for whatever technical faults its software may have, understands that despite my tech background I measure computers and OSs in terms of what they do for me and my business, not how flashy their technical specs are.
you use Jarte.... its free... and better than wordpad...
That's not Vista. That's a 3rd party ap.
well.. how about "word viewer"?(its free) thats the app that MS asks you to use...
You're best bet would be openoffice.org(free) I just downloaded/installed and tested it and it works fine.
You're best bet would be openoffice.org(free) I just downloaded/installed and tested it and it works fine.
I really like the new office 2007 but don't have $ right now....
With the exception of the concept of the Dock, which was put in to woo Windows users, the effects generally help your experience and aid productivity. For example, Expose is a far better visual way to switch between a multitude of open Windows than the task bar or Alt-Tab. We may be used to Alt-Tab and are therefore quick with it, but it's an unnatural trained way of switching. Having all of your windows laid out in front of you for the picking is much better.
If you count advertising as encouragement, or stating the date OS 9 will no longer be supported as encouragement, then quite often.
I've usually found that multifunction phone/mp3/camera devices do not do all of the functions well, except for maybe a phone being a voice recorder since it's designed to talk into anyway. For example, I like small mp3 players, but I do not want a phone the size of my nano unless somebody made a modern shrunk Nokia 8110 (the Matrix phone, my second cell phone). Or worse a Shuffle, unless it's reliably voice controlled, which would be cool. I prefer phones to be a bit larger and ergonomic, but not the size it would take to fit in a video player screen or a quality camera lens and CCD (lens size matters, and smaller CCDs introduce more noise at the same resolution of larger ones).
I once bought one of these high-end multi-function devices (including PDA), and it really didn't do any one thing well. I ditched it in favor of the actual devices. I also had one of the first mp3-playing phones five years ago -- rarely used the mp3 bit.
Wait, I have an idea. Take an 8110, make it skinnier and a touch wider with modern technology, and make most of the curved front one big flexible wide aspect ratio PLED screen, keypad available when you slide it. I'd buy that with a video/mp3 player in it if it had at least 16 GB capacity.
we are getting there, I believe the smart phone/all-in-one will be the future.
I worked at a major electronic and appliance store for a few months earlier this year in the computer department, and the feedback I got from a couple guys beta-testing: one hated it completely, the other liked it, as long as you have four gigs of RAM.
My advice to anybody thinking of buying a new lap or desktop: Buy it now!!!
Well, Apple's coming out with their "iPhone," so let's see what they can do. Ive's attention to detail and close relation with the engineers and manufacturers, and Jobs' anal retentiveness should produce a pretty good product, but I'm still skeptical.
they really should add in a camera(even if its only 2mp it comes in handy)
This XBOX 360 HD-DVD Drive works on Wondows And Mac... ;)
Its got Quake IV Demo and Cold War Demo on the DVD... ;)
See how the window look like liquid/jelly? hehe
Nobody knows the specs, so it might be in there. However, I would prefer a 1mp camera for the sensor sizes you find in cameras. Think of it this way: Remember the quality of 35mm film? The sensor on even pocket digital cameras can be only a couple hundredths the size of 35mm. The only way to get both quality and pixels (not even counting the lens) is to make a larger sensor, which you will never find in small phone with it's tiny battery.
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