Well as many of you we were not at the Vista Launch Party (school ugggghhh), and this is what they gave away there. This seems like it would be worth a lot to sell but other than that it isn't worth that much. The Office 2007 and the 360 Controller would be the only valuable things to me as my Vista Experience has been terrible (I am the colleague of the latest Vista article). Well it all adds up to probably around 500-600 dollars which is quite a bit of money if you were to sell all of it. Anyways the contest has already ended on Gizmodo.com to see who gets the bag eau Vista. Hopefully in the near future we are lucky enough to attend events such as these. Not much else to say about it. There are more pictures over at Gizmodo.
Original at Gizmodo.
Alrighty so this is our first Vista article where we actually have the Vista software. Before it was just the beta or some thing we heard. Ok well, my own experiences with Vista go a little something like this:
It was a nice sunny Wednesday and there was a small collaboration around the lunch table. I casually walked up to sit down and eat some pizza. But, with astonishment I saw one of my collegues using is computer. As fast as a bird after a worm, I dashed over and saw he was using iTunes, and he was using it very laggily. He then told me with glee that he was running Vista on his Dell XPS 1210. I decided to do a product test on his version of Vista, because I am such a good friend. So I proceeded with the product test and hit the backspace key twice with two swift motions. Suddenly, out of the blue, he got a BSoD (Blue Screen of Death ( a blue screen that tells u something has gone horribly borribly wrong)). However, this was no normal BSoD. Instead of saying "An Error has Occured," like the normal ones, his said "Error has occured." It also made a wierd WEEE WEEE WEEE WEEE sound like twice a second. Promptly, he force shut it down and tried to restart it. He waited like four minutes while the curser and a black background were the only things visible. After countless force shutdowns, he just decided to leave it and it started working. As luck would have it, this was Vista's way of turning on."
So the moral of this story is that Vista laggs, has wierd BSoD's, and takes a long time to turn on. Also it takes 15 GBs of storage on ur HD, whereas Windows XP takes up around 1 GB. As we have professed in our previous Vista posts, we don't think that this is a payment worth paying for cool effects, but as the saying goes, to each his own.
On a more Microsoft friendly note, I absolutely love the Office 2007 package. I only had the Beta so it stopped working Feb 1st, but now that im using Office 2003 I can see the differance. Office 2007 has a whole bucket load of extra features than 2003. It is just unexplainably wonderful. So go buy Office 2007 and don't buy Vista.
Published by Alex at January 21, 2007
in Vista.
Yeah, the wow isnt in the title, but it should be. If Microsoft thinks that slapping on Bill Gates' signature, a special case and a $259 price tag is going to make it sell a bunch of more vistas, I'm pretty sure they're wrong. I personally doubt they'll sell the 19,999 units of memorable microsoft software. Yeah I'm really sure.
Original at Engadget.
New start menu and program file layout. Transparent windows.
New window switching (windows are animated)
I downloaded windows vista RC1 a few weeks ago to see what it is like. It took me a couple days to download (3 gb file). I installed it and my sound stopped working because the driver for my sound card isn’t “signed” by the company who provides it. I stayed up until two in the morning to fix it, and now I have to press f8 every time I start it up. It worked fine for a week or two. Then suddenly printers stop working, P2P networks start dropping me. Also it took up approximately 11 gb of my hard drive. Windows vista is basically an annoying version of XP with some GUI upgrades. The windows are transparent. And there is an alternate to alt tab which shows you an animated window and is in 3D. I would not buy vista when it comes out. It would be better to keep XP. The best idea is to get Linux or a Mac.
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