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| Thread ID: 72158 | 2006-09-02 00:18:00 | Vista for the Rich | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 482048 | 2006-09-02 13:27:00 | Vista wont flop or miss out on sales cause of a higher price, thats not saying vista wont be a pile of crap though, personally I'm going to give it a whirl as soon as it hits the shelves. Only when computer builders give the option of linux as an operating system, will you see MS flop. So come on every body give linux a go, Mepis :thumbs: |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 482049 | 2006-09-02 14:13:00 | it will be interesting to see if there is such a huge price difference in the OEM versions - Will a new Dell that comes with vista preinstalled be $200 more expensive than the same computer with XP preinstalled? lol, like dell would sell anything capable of running vista! well, they probably would, but only just and for a ridiculus sum i hate dell:annoyed: Vista wont flop or miss out on sales cause of a higher price, thats not saying vista wont be a pile of crap though, personally I'm going to give it a whirl as soon as it hits the shelves. i'll give it untill sp1 atleast, I'd rather not be MS's crash test dummy |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 482050 | 2006-09-02 22:16:00 | if its that expensive then noone will buy it, simple. They will learn from this mistake and eventually cut the price Nice idea but how do you think Bill Gates got to be so rich? Look how much Office costs, he's sold trillions... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 482051 | 2006-09-02 23:52:00 | An easy way for microsoft to stop a LOT of their piracy is to do what valve has done on steam (the game thingy) You can only use a cd key once and and after that it cannot be registered anymore, why doesn't microsoft do that and then they won't get people using the same key 57896378652 times. |
Fishy (10540) | ||
| 482052 | 2006-09-03 01:02:00 | An easy way for microsoft to stop a LOT of their piracy is to do what valve has done on steam (the game thingy) You can only use a cd key once and and after that it cannot be registered anymore, why doesn't microsoft do that and then they won't get people using the same key 57896378652 times. What if you want/need to reinstall it? |
sambaird (47) | ||
| 482053 | 2006-09-03 02:52:00 | Upgrade to make windows transparent? I can do that now, It's really nothing amazing. Screenshot (www.imagef1.net.nz) |
pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 482054 | 2006-09-03 03:38:00 | When I first got involved with PC's around 1991, what intrigued me, was that you had to buy DOS separately. Well thats fine but a pc was pretty useless without DOS (and from memory there was little alternative until DR-DOS and the like). Bill knows when he is on to a winner. | dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 482055 | 2006-09-03 04:19:00 | An easy way for microsoft to stop a LOT of their piracy is to do what valve has done on steam (the game thingy) You can only use a cd key once and and after that it cannot be registered anymore, why doesn't microsoft do that and then they won't get people using the same key 57896378652 times. Steam didn't stop piracy, Not only was HL2 cracked and destributed with no more greif then any other game but the online components were also cracked and destributed. The only aspect that had any effect were updates for the online games, and while I don't know if its still happening but the steam destributed updates that removed access for cracked copies were also cracked and destributed within a couple of hours of official release. The most interesting part of this is that in nearly every other case the game crackers usually ignore the online components of games entirely (obviously because its so easy for the game devs to bounce out the pirated copies and the pirates don't intend to offer updates for a cracked release) So, Steam/HL2 poor example. On the other hand MS could quite easily drop a little bit of code into Vista that would disable the vast majority of pirated copies, Personally I think they should, Then thoush looking for a free alternative would be forced onto Linux..... |
Metla (12) | ||
| 482056 | 2006-09-03 04:36:00 | An easy way for microsoft to stop a LOT of their piracy is to do what valve has done on steam (the game thingy) You can only use a cd key once and and after that it cannot be registered anymore, why doesn't microsoft do that and then they won't get people using the same key 57896378652 times . :lol: I have seen both versions that run without Steam and versions that you could access via Steam . So much for the Steam idea . All that sort of thing does, is cause headaches for the legit users - go read the forums on Steam hassles . Been chatting to an admin at a Uni friend - she was at the Vista TechEd thing the other week . She likes Visat . She likes (her words): Aero (very Mac like) Lockdown capabilities -well she would wworking at a uni Parental control No reboots after updating stuff like Adobe None of which excites me in the slighest |
pctek (84) | ||
| 482057 | 2006-09-03 04:45:00 | What if you want/need to reinstall it?Why would you ever need to do that? Like all the versions of Windows so far, Vista will be perfectly designed and coded, with no bugs, memory leaks, or security holes. Won't it? :cool: | Graham L (2) | ||
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