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Vista delayed for the umpteenth time. Jan. '07 now

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mpjesse   03-22-2006 at 06:25:54 PM

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11947922/

This is getting stupid. I know a lot of you will say "well it's better that they have a more stable OS blah blah blah..."

Why the hell can't M$ get this right? It's funny- does anyone remember back in 95-2000 we were all bitching that M$ was releasing OS's at too fast a pace? Now just the opposite is true. LOL.

By the time Vista hits stores, XP will be over 5 years old!

-mpjesse

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CHEEZball   03-22-2006 at 06:30:33 PM
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OMG you mean they could actually be working on fixing bugs before they sell it?!

:P

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mpjesse   03-22-2006 at 06:35:39 PM
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Hehehehe...

I gotta say, WinXP was incredibly stable out of the box. I don't remember ever having an issue with it when it was RTM.

WinXP (IMO) is M$'s best OS ever.

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CHEEZball   03-22-2006 at 06:37:58 PM
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I agree, I don't think I've seen a blue screen ever since I've gotten XP.

Only thing I originally disliked about it was the stupid "bubble buttons" and their color scheme..common...green and blue?

Of course now I'm used to it, took me awhile to get over it compared to the classic view.

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mpjesse   03-22-2006 at 06:46:47 PM
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I use StyleXP at home. I use the MacOS theme.

It's pruuuuurdy.

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Riser   03-22-2006 at 07:51:37 PM
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I'm glad they keep pushing it back. XP is working good. Can't really ask for too much more at this point in time.. at least from a corporate standpoint. Every time they release and OS I have to learn the damn thing and know all the changes made.

I'm sure it'll be really stable. They just need to stop the early promotion of their OSs. Market it 6 months before it hits the shelves. I don't want to keep hearing about how great it is and not have a date in mind.
Or Talk about it but don't give a release date.

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dhlucke   03-22-2006 at 07:56:51 PM
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I could care less. This whole HDCP fiasco is going to drive us all crazy when none of our monitors support it. We'll be stuck watching HD movies at 25% of the resolution.

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mpjesse   03-22-2006 at 10:17:50 PM
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We'll be stuck watching HD movies at 25% of the resolution.



I thought the HDCP issues were with video cards...

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dhlucke   03-22-2006 at 10:30:11 PM
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Well the videocards are a problem since they say they're hdcp compliant but they don't tell you that you'd need another add on card to make it so.

Monitors have to be compliant as well though from what I understand. It's kinda stupid. The new Dell LCD's like the 2407fpw will be compliant. My 2405fpw isn't.

The licensing for hdcp is $15,000 + $0.005 per hardware license. Why they couldn't have just made it all compliant before I don't know.

I'm not sure it's a real problem though since I don't really watch movies on my monitor. But I do output some to my TV. Then again I'm still on a 27" CRT so it's not a big deal now but when I buy a big screen it might be.

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mpjesse   03-22-2006 at 11:09:40 PM
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I don't see it as such a big deal. When DVD-ROM's first came out for PC's you had to have a decoder card (to watch movies).

I don't mind spending a few extra bucks for a decoder card to watch HD-DVD movies on my PC.

Or you can probably just wait for software HD-DVD/Bluray decoding to come out. It'll probably take a couple years but it'll happen. Most of today's processors can certainly handle it.... h.264 does fine on my lappy and my video card doesn't have h.264 acceleration.

Decrypting might be an issue though...

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Forlorn   03-22-2006 at 11:11:00 PM
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Yay for an OS with government backdoors.

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mrface   03-23-2006 at 03:05:05 PM
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agreed it never blue screened, but many times it has just rebooted for no reason on me. :roll:

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RichPLS   03-23-2006 at 07:01:38 PM
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o'er the years, I have had several blue screens with XP.
Yet it is the best MS has created to date.

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mpjesse   03-23-2006 at 08:36:22 PM
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I've had a few BSOD's in WinXP. However they were all related to one of the following things:

1. Overclocking
2. Bad memory
3. BETA drivers

M$ can hardly be faulted for those factors...

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