Windows Vista - Page 3

techeros · 07-27-2005, 01:07 PM

good lord don't remind me

xBrady · 07-27-2005, 03:22 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Dudes99

Anyone remember the hardware upgrades required for 95????????

rofl!
Good point.

RoyN · 07-27-2005, 03:52 PM

Damn, I hope I dont need to update my Centrino 2.0/1gb ram/gforcefx anytime too soon....

although wait, summer 2006? nah, I hope to have a new computer by then!

My carpc though will probably not see this until at least end of 2006 or 2007 sometime when all our frontends catch up and stuff... I am already foreseeing a bunch of "xxx frontend doest work on vista" threads... I wonder how well the Winamp/WMP/XP dlls stuff will work in Vista...

MobiTekLink · 07-30-2005, 07:20 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by camsgs3

Update 6: ICONS
In Vista icons will be completely changed. Documents don't have a icon anymore that shows the file-type, but it shows the first page of the document. Folder-icons will show you the inside files by using 3D technology. You'll see the files coming forward in a slideshow while you're watching the folder.

Update 7: STABILITY
Vista will be the most stable OS ever. Microsoft admitted that it had problems with stability with Windows ME and XP (without SP), but they really are making work of making Vista unbelievably stable. Microsoft even has made three special tea
Hopefully this clears up some questions you guys have....

What are you MS marketing guy??? Vista will probably suck and be overbloated just like everything Microsux does,,
They don't even admit Apple exists http://virtualearth.msn.com/default....e=h&lvl=17&v=1
Like always MS rules because of sheer size.

zaid175 · 07-30-2005, 07:42 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by rushnrockt

Windows 95 was released in 95 actually.

August 95. I was in the USA for a vaccation and my last stop was NY. Win 95 was stacked everywhere, bought my copy from there.

techeros · 07-30-2005, 10:17 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by MobiTekLink.com

What are you MS marketing guy??? Vista will probably suck and be overbloated just like everything Microsux does,,
They don't even admit Apple exists http://virtualearth.msn.com/default....e=h&lvl=17&v=1
Like always MS rules because of sheer size.

YEAH!! What he said!

While I don't remember the 95 upgrade, does anybody remember goin to your friensd place trying to look at some pic of a naked chick usin a cga 16 color display... trippin

FunkDaMonkMan · 07-30-2005, 10:21 AM

lol , all this talk of "I"ll never upgrade past XP" reminds me of 5 years ago

RoyN · 07-31-2005, 04:35 PM

I honestly think the OS will be better than XP, but will require the appropriate hardware (to this moment this isnt of course known and wont be known until people start running the thing's final version)...

quirks will exist in the first versions, but I think it will ultimately be a natural upgrade from XP for ALL users.

seanz0rz · 07-31-2005, 07:53 PM

unless i have a damn good reason... never. i refuse to update unless they give me a reason to.

and when they do ill be runing fedora or another distro. so no big deal.

Bj · 07-31-2005, 08:08 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Dudes99

Anyone remember the hardware upgrades required for 95????????

486DX2 33mhz with 8MB of RAM and a maths-co-processor minimum hard disk space of 200MB to install.

techeros · 07-31-2005, 09:14 PM

I just remember the days when software and hardware settings were a BEEEOTCH. We didn't have plug n pray, automatic this and that, soft IRQ's. Man we had to jumper the right pins, and rocker switches in the right combination, RESEARCH which IRQ was open then pray the IO base was good too. Then IF and WHEN you managed that, you hoped and prayed that the software would recognize the hardware, and it all had to be done when the moon and stars aligned.... ahh the crappy days. No wonder geeks got paid so good

RoyN · 07-31-2005, 09:16 PM

I've heard all this "by the time X windows is out I'll be running linux x flavor" but in the end we are all bill gates' whores.... sorry but true

RoyN · 07-31-2005, 09:17 PM

Yeah! I remember... openning up your computer to play with jumpers/dispswitches on modems, and other hardware....

techeros · 07-31-2005, 09:35 PM

Yall are guuna laugh... My first was a Tandy 1000 cga16 with 640 expanded ram card, dual high density 5 1/4 drives, and ah 20 MEG hdd.

This is the funny part. My drive was soo gemp'ed-up, I had to physically roll the heads back to sector 0 just so it would boot. The harddrive (mfm/rll cant remember which)had a controller card attached, next to the controller was the dial connected to the hdd.

I felt like I was crankin up a model T for cryin out loud!!

shizzle · 07-31-2005, 09:44 PM

Im sure it will be really stable. NOT!
I just upgraded to service pack 1 on my machine for the first time, and today that computer saw its first blue screen of death. No lie, I couldnt believe it. Luckily, no problems have arisen from it. MS just talks out of their *** about stability... they have no control over many of the issues that cause instablilty anyway.