Tell me you've heard about it. Legions of geeks all over the world are probably drooling, waiting for the next generation of the blue screen of death Windows. Yeah, and it looks very nice, overly polished, and Applelified.
The fact that something so big is hitting stores early next year (everyone's crossing fingers for a January release) means that us mere mortals will have to make the choice to switch soon, and then start tearing our hair out as something goes wrong with the computer. It always does, especially if its not new.
Personally i don't know whether to install it or not. First off would be the reports that Microsoft has locked the core of Windows Vista in a deep vault in the com, thrown away the key and stuck its tongue out at virus writers. Unfortunately this also means antivirus software makers are locked out in the cold too, making Microsoft the sole gatekeeper for your computer's safety. And we all know how sucky Microsoft can be with patches - user reported vulneribilities in XP has gone unrepaired for as long as 6 months (compare that to Linux, with a patch time of several hours).
Microsoft is playing chess with hackers. Yes.Microsoft has listed the following requirements for what they call a Vista Premium Ready PC. A PC that meets or exceeds these requirements will be able to use the new Aero technologies, being mainly:
- a 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
- 1 gigabyte of system memory
- a DirectX 9 compatible graphics processor, with a Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) driver, and a minimum of 128 MB of Video RAM
- 40 GB hard drive with 15 GB(OMFG!) free space
- DVD-ROM Drive
- audio output and Internet access
Hmmph.
On the bright side, the all new file system makes locating pictures and music a breeze, it looks very good, wizards are more intuitive (although not all the time) and I pray the blue screen of death is forever reduced to a mere footnote in PC.
The new windows media player.Because, you know, what is Malaysia going to do without pirated Windows? Get Gates to answer that.
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I'm keen to see how the new Driver Model will fare.
It's reported that the same devices will work better under Vista when compared to XP due to the 'significantly' improved Driver Model.
Lol! Now if Vista can automatically detect and perform a silent install for all drivers for all devices (probably with internet connection, haiz) than i'll throw my hat off to microsoft. ^.^
No more google yourself to find some daft device manufacturer to find their outdated website to download a driver that crashes your system. Yay!
That's something I might not like though...
I don't like things running in the background silently, unless I tell it to do so :P
Plus certain devices may have different sets of drivers which perform differently. I wouldn't want Windows to overwrite my set of hacked drivers.
Hacked. >.<
True malaysians we are. Hehe. But i wonder whether vista is pirateable. Microsoft has been making things harder and harder for pirates lately (stupid wga logon). Sigh.
Get a Mac?
They're sort of hacked, as in non-standard drivers. They work better than standards ones though. In certain cases.
Given time and effort, any protection is breakable. It's like a law, anything that can be engineered can be reversed engineered :P
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