I actually think some of this sounds pretty cool.....
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The dream come true. Another windoze with even more superfluous content to suck up hardware specs. Can't wait to see that hit the streets.
Oh well. At least they are trying. Lets hope they steal a better Linux layout than IceWM this time. I seriously hope the guy who made that blunder on XP has been sacked. |
I suspect that games will still get to gobble all the GPU horsepower when they're running full screen... in which case maybe we'll just get more capable graphics cards, because it won't just be power games pushing the envelope.
They're way behind the power curve on the hard drive front though... REAL hardcore hardware freaks run network storage. I've got 2TB, 1 on a 2003AS box, one on this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833329005 With the gigabit network, both shares are faster than local storage... and with Raid5 they're safer too. |
Forget that s**t, just use Linux and a command line interface :D
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Holy crap, that ALL sounds expensive. There is NO WAY a comp with that capability is going to cost less than a thousand dollars.
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I've been constantly amazed at the ability of computer hardware to get cheap fast. It's been happening for decades now... starts out crazy expensive and before a year is out it's in the bargin bin a Wally world.
I betcha by the time Vista hits the shelves the hardware to run it will cost under a grand. I also betcha it'll make that hardware (which will be very fast by today's standards) run slower than molasses in january. I use command line interfaces daily for LOTS of things... even the venerable windows command line. Generally I find it's faster to command line for certain tasks than threading through 50 layers of menu's and dialog boxes (seems mostly networking tasks). |
They must have gone completely nuts. I just read the thing again. Are they totally insane!? This isn't the mid 90'es anymore. People are generally hard to impress and demand a working solution rather than eye-candy. Looks like one last feeble attempt from Microsoft to set the pace.
Also they seem overly naive thinking anyone is using their product for any other reason than familiarity. They should indulge piracy (as they also have in internal communications). If people couldn't steal a free copy of windows at home they'd never ever use it at work. This DRM mania isn't thought through. It bears all the marks of panic. |
Hehe... feeble attempt to set the pace?
M$ has been setting the pace on the desktop for 15 years. They drive hardware sales with their horsepower hungry operating systems, they drive sales and upgrades with their incremental improvement releases... and they basically OWN the desktop market, and that has helped their server market too (where Linux is a serious competitor these days and other Unix variants have been pushed back somewhat) The other thing to remember is that bright shiney blinking lights and buttons catch the attention of the average consumer... some of the visual changes in Vista are simply to catch up with Apple in 'curb appeal', which as always has a MUCH slicker looking package than XP can muster. [ 09-09-2005, 08:53 AM: Message edited by: Thoran ] |
Anyone want to guess as to how large the footprint of this OS is going to be?
My guess is 5-10 GB...but I'm a n00b. Oh, and did I read right? Are laptop users going to have to get a DIFFERENT OS? One that probably won't be capable of half the things the standard OS is? That's an awful way of doing things. In all seriousness, I appreciate that Microsoft has standardized a lot of the computer industry, but it seems to be spreading chaos nowadays. |
Blimey though! Are they trying to write off all of their potential customers who have a computer that works "very nicely thank-you" at the moment and don't have the cash to upgrade just for an OS?
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