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- inactive, on 10/31/2007, -10/+139We will have Windows XP around for quite a while...
- Alegis, on 10/10/2007, -2/+60This is meant as a final service pack, and is standard practice for windows releases nearing the end of their sales period.
Use XP as long as you wish, but you could consider this a final cleaning of the house. - estvir, on 10/10/2007, -3/+58It's amazing how you try to call me an idiot yet:
- You said "your" instead of "you're"
- You claim it's the most buggy version of Windows, ever.. forgetting ME?
- You claim it needs dual core technology; seriously, how dumb are you?
- You claim it's a hardware hog; go to codinghorror.com, look up the memory article, for starters
You'll believe anything the magical interwebs tells you, don't you? Oh, and PROVE THE MANY BUGS, thanks.. and since this is [apparently] the buggiest version ever it should be oh-so-easy for your intelligent self.
I guess I'm not surprised people like Phocion55 are Digging you up. - Axim, on 10/10/2007, -9/+58basically if you're constantly crashing xp with the latest updates and virus protection you should probably start training for the special olympics bro
- fkr3, on 10/17/2007, -2/+41We will have Gizmodo around for a while while we continue to play this stupid game where those lame ***** regurgitate a bit of content and we read their summary and make them money from advertisers.
Why are we looking at Gizmodo when even the description on digg attributes it to someone else?
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2192557,00.as ... - benitojuarez, on 10/17/2007, -5/+42When sp2 came out for xp, microsoft shipped it to me on a cd for free after i requested it from their website.
- mentol, on 10/13/2007, -10/+46Too many people don't like Vista so I guess XP is going to be on the market for some time.
- SlyProfanity, on 10/17/2007, -12/+39been using Vista Ultimate since launch no problems here
- Kamujin, on 10/17/2007, -7/+34No, I also agree. XP was the biggest pile of crap at release. It only got marginally tollerable at SP2.
Vista was stable, performant, and a pleasure to use at release. These nay sayers have clearly never used it on a modern PC. I am sorry, your 5 year old pentium with 256mb RAM isn't going to cut it for Vista. You were warned so stop crying already. - p0tent1al, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23Original Article
http://www.pcmag.com/
article2/0,1895,2192557,00.asp
Combine without any spaces, had to do that because Digg is being ***** stupid and shortening all links and making them invalid.
Furthermore, I think this is really getting out of hand, whenever a blog does a good story, another blog picks it up on their site, and then other sides pick up on that secondary source and it just keeps going, I think we have had a couple of links here on digg that you had to click 3 or 4 times to get to the original story.... - inactive, on 10/13/2007, -2/+23The first service pack for Windows Vista is on its way, and PC Magazine has a preview of an early private beta version. The good news is that reviewer Neil Randall found the service pack to be faster overall than the shipping version of Windows Vista
- estvir, on 10/10/2007, -16/+36Like with every other Windows version in the past?
Amazing. - PJBovoNox, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20Wrong. Techies went from 2000 to XP, not from 98 to XP.
- netdroid9, on 10/10/2007, -4/+22I had a few initial issues with the Vista installation, but after that it's turned out to be remarkably stable. I've yet to have any major issues with compatibility either, surprisingly.
- benitojuarez, on 10/10/2007, -3/+20ive only had two problems with vista so far, empire at war forces of corruption wont work, lucas arts helpdesk says they dont support vista, and my wifix max dongle for my ds doesnt work because they havent written 64bit drivers for vista. other than that ive had absolutely no problems.
- hrak, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18wtf is a shout spammer?
- ZippyV, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17Nobody want secure wireless networks?
- Murdats, on 10/10/2007, -10/+26too many poeple don't like XP so I guess windows 98 is going to on the market for some time.
this is similar to what was said when xp was new, see any copies of 98 being sold (or even looked for?) - steelclash84, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18Going from 98 to XP was a much much bigger (and more important) jump then from XP to Vista. Windows 98 had a very unstable kernal, whereas XP has a very stable kernal (in terms of NT). Vista is a gimmick OS that has artificially inflated features. DX10 CAN run on XP, they just need it to be Vista only to entice people to switch.
- Agret, on 10/10/2007, -8/+23You realise 98 to XP was a huge leap in terms of going from an unstable kernel to the NT kernel. Vista doesn't really offer much over XP in terms of stabilitiy or features. I used it for a month and didn't really find anything impressive in it, it's pretty much the same but slower. Also they decided to ruin Sound Recorder.
- jon26l, on 10/10/2007, -5/+18i've been really enjoying vista although the performance problems have seriously made me consider going back to XP.
- cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -0/+13This URL truncation is *****, who ever asked for truncated URLs? Not me, that's for sure. So many URLs don't work and it's a feature I never heard anyone ask for! What good does it do? God, I miss Digg v2.0
- mascot4hire, on 10/10/2007, -5/+18me too and i had a pirate copy.
- digitalarcanum, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14I know I'll get dugg down for this, but vista's file copy is atrocious. I have a friend that built a direct X 10 gaming rig and had a bunch of files he wanted to move from his old system to his vista box via external hard drive. roughly 30 gigs worth of data. I know it's a rather large amount, but XP could handle it without coming close to choking. So to the vista fanboys: tell me the last OS that's failed to copy files from one point to another (barring failed hardware).
- grumpyrain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12I doubt it contains anything 'new'. There are about 100MB of patches on top of a shrink wrapped SP2. This is just a nice way to slipstream all those upgrades. It won't be a SP1 -> SP2 level difference.
- fatadamblog, on 10/26/2007, -49/+61Am I the only one that Thinks Vista is a great operating system? XP crashed is buggy and ***** and when I boot my Vista up it hasn't crashed ONCE!
- nonymous666, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13Those same fixes in the SP that speed up Vista are already available as hotfixes via WIndows Update.
- shavenlunatic, on 10/10/2007, -7/+19no, XP didn't get the negative response that vista has... ME got a similar response (infact, not as globally negative).. and look what happened to that...
- Hayaemsay, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14The irony of it is you are spamming too.
- benitojuarez, on 10/10/2007, -5/+16since when is speeding up an os and improving application compatibility against a doj ruling you *****?
- cuoops, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=21665 ...
- Braingoo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12I completely agree with some new drivers out now and some good ol fashioned tweaking my Vista looks great and runs like a top. I must admit it was rocky there for a while but now Its really starting to grow on me. have not had one crash in many months.
- Murdats, on 10/10/2007, -5/+16since microsoft is involved, look at the people crying monopoly over WMP, if microsoft adds any new software to windows, they are abusing their monopoly, if the linux community or apple do it they are progressive and original.
- Nerfdude, on 10/26/2007, -2/+12XP is rock solid. Vista is getting there. Apple fans are far louder than your Joe Everyman Windows User, and of course they don't like Vista. Vista is a great OS, it's not getting as much negative press as the apple-run "blogosphere" (i hate that word, i really do) would have you believe.
Fox News covers up right wing shortcomings. the internet blows up tiny issues with anything that wasn't designed to run on a computer made of white lucite. so is life. - Kindjal, on 10/13/2007, -9/+19- Disk Defragmenter has been updated so you can choose which drive you'd like to defrag. "Nothing huge," Zipkin added. - (from an interview with the SP1 manager at microsoft)
That has to be the best comment i have read from Microsoft in years. Just shows how incompetent they are. Best to stop now before they embarrass themselves even more. - cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -4/+14This is exactly right. I don't know why people are waiting for an "official" roll out, just slipstream the updates into your Vista ISO and start getting used to it. This whole SP1 thing is a joke, even Microsoft are telling people a lot of updates are already in Windows Update. Been using Vista for close to a year now, have 3 boxes at home using it and I never once thought about turning back. Each to their own I guess.
- nazadus, on 10/11/2007, -6/+16Honestly, if it's crashing as much as you seem to claim -- you probably have a hardware problem.
Either that or you've installed something horrible.
Or you are exaggerating. - warped, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11That is not accurate. There is many performance and hardware driver fixes in the SP that are not availible in Windows Update now. I'm in the beta and can say it is much improved with speed.
- warped, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11Actually I recall many companies staying Windows 2000 when XP came for quite some time. I was one who preferred 2k for a long time.
- Alegis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Meant final for XP indeed.
As for vista the most notable feature seems to be speed improvement for copying files over disks/network. - Alegis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9DX 10 is vista only.
As grumpy said it most likely contains a lot of the already released updates. The other extra features are more dev/operator oriented. I'm afraid the user shouldn't expect any real new features that apply to them. That's what Vista is for. - Murdats, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10its also the first service pack.
that is the first for vista and the last for XP. - nocode, on 10/10/2007, -9/+17have you actually used vista yet? what is crappy about it? you don't hold a really good case if all you say is "vista is crap"
- taphagreg, on 10/26/2007, -11/+19Meh, Windows.... so yesterday
- gfnw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Or http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=21665 ... for the single page, easier to read print friendly version.
- Optimaximal, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Use one yourself and turn off the Caps Lock :)
- estvir, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11So, there's one 'bug' you've listed so far - where are the rest? Some of you make it sound as if there are millions, so why is it so hard to list them?
And what is it non-compatible with? Or rather, what is not compatible with Vista? And once again you say buggy, LIST THE BUGS. - armo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Perhaps they need to be less worried about people stealing it and more worried about making people want to buy it
- Kindjal, on 10/10/2007, -4/+11It is very good, you can finally choose which drive to defragment...wait a minute...you still have to defragment?
- kurtwinter, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8For the record - Windows 98 was always a piece of *****, and the OS that people didn't want to get rid of was Windows 2000. I don't know whether everyone here is like 12 or if everyone has really bad memories, but the DOS based Windows, such as 3.1, 95, 98, ME were pieces of crap. Only 98SE had reasonable stability. Then came 2000, which integrated DirectX into a NT framework. Anyone who still used 98 when 2000 was available was an idiot. XP was buggy, unusable and unstable when released, leaving many people on the Windows 2000 platform. In fact, until SP2 came out for XP, many corporations continued using 2000. Not dissimilar here, Vista will go through another service pack, and people will move away from XP, just as they did with 2000.
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