I've also been running Vista at work for well over a year, and at home on my newly built machine for the past month with zero problems. Again, I believe that most of the haters out there either don't have the hardware to run Vista, or they install all kinds of crap software and allow their machines to get infected with spyware, and then blame the OS.
Semantics... but ok, tell you what... Show me where they say when it will "RTM" and I'll bet you it doesn't make it on time. Release Candidate? Is that an official term? I'm talking OUT, which I guess you're equating with "RTM". You are right, though, Pizza did say out of beta. I'd bet about that too, but keeping it simple and free of subjectivity, I think RTM would be the best measure. No problem emulating features if they're good ones and they don't break laws to do it. Of course, emulating OS features has been a staple for them... but you're right, everyone does it. GPU acceleration was needed for sure. That sounds good, as far making what they have run and look better... definitely good news. My winmachine isn't a laptop, so don't know that power is a huge issue for me, but that's still a good thing. I do wonder if it's got the juice to run the beta... how do you get it? I put XP back on mine and it's back to running nicely, so I'd hesitate to mess with that, but... it does pique my interest if it's as good as you say. I guess my other concern would be compatibility with hardware and software, but those things are usually just hit or miss, trial and error.
Want to know what I have installed on my PC other than the basic XP Pro? Steam Left 4 Dead Team Fortress Firefox iTunes Adobe McAfee Spybot That's it. Period. I clean up my files regularly (defrag, virus check, spyware, etc), run a pretty tidy ship... not a user problem. Add this with the absolute mountain of headaches my previous PCs have given me, and well, I'm peaceing up out of the windows game.
I run Vista on a couple of laptops and on a machine at work and have had NO PROBLEMS at all. What I see plenty of times is that a person with a SLOW ASS machine will try to "upgrade to Vista" only to find out their machine can't handle it, and they end up hating Vista. A friend of mine who is an avid Winders and a Web Developer just posted this on her FaceBook for us to read: The Bumper List of WIndows 7 secrets Good shhhhhtuff...
can you tell me exactly what the error says.. i think you are confusing registry errors with a corrupted hard drive or memory. i say that because the other day i fixed a computer that said a certain file is missing right before the xp logo screen. i reinstalled windows etc..on the first boot..same thing. i knew it had to be the hard drive or another hardware. reinstalled on a new drive..same thing. then i took out 1 module of memory (out of 2) and bam started up without any problems. i been running xp since it's beta days and it is a very stable OS. now i am running windows 7 beta. things NEVER just get messed up for no reason. theres always something wrong. and dont be so quick to blame xp. hardware errors can easily manifest as "missing files"
Sorry people I just bought a Mac Book Air last week and loving it right now. OS X Leopard is so much better than Vista. MBA loads up in half the time it took my Sony Vaio with Vista. Plus I love spaces, stacks and time machine. There is no crappy clutter of files or documents and everything is organized easily. Plus the programs load up really fast without any crashes. Honestly, I've been PC guy for 15 years now and wonder why didn't I switch to Mac long ago. Windows is a terrible system with too many design flaws. OS Leopord really shows that a system should be designed with the user in mind and everything should be to your accomodation not the other way around.
I cant wait to see the next Macbook Air.... Not only does the drive not come attached, you carry the hard drive and a keyboard in your pocket! So THIN!!!
I have every single one of those apps installed. You're doing something wrong, or you have bad hardware.
Itunes is a doozy, it does end up causing a lot of driver/hardware errors in post. I noticed as crazy as it sounds the order of install is important. If Itunes is the first item you install, most of the time it minimizes error. One time I formatted, reinstalled windows, and then installed all my software and then Itunes last and my USB ports suddenly didn't work in Windows. Apparently Itunes overwrote a crucial update, just for a damn iPhone driver. I noticed the best means of installing was Itunes>Nero>The Rest of Software> Windows Updates. A slipstreamed OS can sometimes avoid this, but not really. Also, SP1 is a pretty strong fix for Vista (as well as SP3 for XP), installing that tends to make all well. Registry errors aren't as crippling as people think.
Ah... finally got my TechNet ID.... downloading all kindsa Microsoft goodies as we speak : windows 7, windows 2008 datacenter, office 2007, sql server 2008, project, exchange server, etc, etc.... God bless big ol' NAS's. I'll probably try to install Windows 7 on a VMWare image today or tomorrow to see what it's like.
It's a small annoyance but the gadgets are now part of the desktop but I like to hide the desktop icons but the only way to keep the gadgets visible is to show the desktop icons. This feature replaced the sidebar .
Windows 7 build 7000 rocks. The only thing is it's a little buggy in explorer and it didn't find all my drivers, but it's already faster and more enjoyable than vista.
Getting new desktops for the office, all with Vista. We haven't had any of these problems that we've heard people talking about with Vista on our laptops. I don't find it all that different...and where I do find it different, I generally like it.
^ Since I replaced the Norton AV that came with the computer with AVG my Vista has been very solid -- now if I could just figure out where all my downloads are going I'd be golden.
