Microsoft VISTA - Page 5

El_Phil · #41 September 14th, 2005, 11:19 AM

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Renegade 13 said:
People hate MS because people hate success. That's just how the human psyche works it seems. He's successful, and we want to be as successful as he is, but can't be, so we'll hate him instead.

I don't hate success, I just dislike seeing cheaters prosper. He's broken many laws and gotten a minor slap on the wrist, it is annoying.

However Windows is still better than the competiton, no-one has produced anything better for my gaming needs. Yes Bill has done everything in his power to stifle and stop any competition, but that's the world. If he'd done it fairly I wouldn't mind.

What I dislike is breaking the law to do so and then not getting punished for it.

parabolize · #42 September 14th, 2005, 03:46 PM

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NullAshton said:
Windows is the only operating system that runs my games. That's all I need.

Give me a list of the games you play. The ones I know you play do run on other OS (though not natively with se4).

parabolize · #43 September 14th, 2005, 03:49 PM

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NullAshton said:
Besides, it comes preinstalled on what? 95% or more of computers? Hey, it comes with the computer, it works, it's compatible with practically everything, what more could you ask for?

95% of the PCs? I don't know but that sounds about right.
95% of computers? Are you out of your mind?

bearclaw · #44 September 14th, 2005, 03:52 PM

I'm all with Thermodyne on this topic. Can't recall where the comment came from but it was said years ago that Computer are NOT ready for the general public to use, but without the general public using them, they never will be. I see this time period as the same as when you had to crank your phone to get an operator, then tell them who you wanted to call, they 'rang' the exchange with a certain coded ring (2 short, 1 long for instance) and everyone's phone would ring. Then you had to hope that the correct person you were calling picks up their phone and not their neighbor.

It's all growing pains. IMO, it will be a while yet before we've got the idiot proof computer but it took 25-30 years to get the idiot proof phone.

NullAshton · #45 September 14th, 2005, 04:01 PM

Phones can be ruined my idiots? That, I have to see for myself.

Why would I only play se4? Sure, it runs on other systems with emulators... But is that all to life? Wine would have a fit if it tried running Battlefield 2, much less all these other games I have. Star Wars Galaxies, Planetside, some other games I'm sure... Windows is simply the best OS for the job of playing games.

parabolize · #46 September 14th, 2005, 04:01 PM

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NullAshton said:
If a friend works for a software company, you can get their developer OS disks and not have to pay for the OS... My dad works at a software company, and he gets the latest stuff of anything dealing with software. Free developer studio, free microsoft office, free operating systems... And sometimes free computers!

Here you go lots of "free" software. DistroWatch.com

El_Phil · #47 September 14th, 2005, 04:03 PM

All new in Vista.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/13/gates_vista/

So we have RSS, better searching and flipping windows. And who knows how much slower. Oh and they'll be porting bits of it to XP anyway.

If your getting a new machine with an OS installed it might as well be the newest one (if you can't get a bare bones machine) but I'm not seeing any compelling reason to change. Of course I thought that about XP until multiple programmes would only run properly, or at all, under it.

NullAshton · #48 September 14th, 2005, 04:03 PM

Meh, linux? Not good if you're a windows user, like me...

Renegade 13 · #49 September 14th, 2005, 04:03 PM

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El_Phil said:

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Renegade 13 said:
People hate MS because people hate success. That's just how the human psyche works it seems. He's successful, and we want to be as successful as he is, but can't be, so we'll hate him instead.

I don't hate success, I just dislike seeing cheaters prosper. He's broken many laws and gotten a minor slap on the wrist, it is annoying.

However Windows is still better than the competiton, no-one has produced anything better for my gaming needs. Yes Bill has done everything in his power to stifle and stop any competition, but that's the world. If he'd done it fairly I wouldn't mind.

What I dislike is breaking the law to do so and then not getting punished for it.

What laws has he broken? I'm sincerely curious here, not trying to be argumentative, by the way

I don't really keep up on that kind of thing!

NullAshton · #50 September 14th, 2005, 04:06 PM

I think there was a few anti-trust lawsuits or something.