[aldo_14]

Overreach.  It's not an OS any more, it'll be called something like an 'Acessibility Platform' or similar.  IMO it'll be making decisions that should be left to client applications, purely for the sake of marketability.

[pyro-manic]

Trying to make computers idiot-proof, by not letting you actually do anything with them....

[CP5670]

Then you know it must be by Microsoft.

EDIT; it's definately a real person, and a real scheduled speech; http://www.microsoft.com/australia/.../solutions.aspx

I know, but this mostly has to do with system requirements rather any actual Vista features, which aren't very predictable when you are talking that far into the future. Some things like the DDR3 recommendation (which from what I'm hearing will perform about the same as DDR2 until some months after its release) and the thing about SATA2 drives being as fast as SCSI drives because of NCQ sound very far out or outright wrong.

With the upcoming new nanotech based LCDs with insanely high resolutions, the current way of rendering the GUIs (using bitmap chunks) isn't going to scale well.

Are you talking about the SEDs? I think that tech is actually closer to CRTs, but with fixed pixels.

[WMCoolmon]

*Waves from Gentoo*

And hopefully with my USB floppy drive, I'll be able to get Win2k on here.

[Martinus]

Originally posted by WMCoolmon
*Waves from Gentoo*

And hopefully with my USB floppy drive, I'll be able to get Win2k on here.

[color=66ff00]I dumped my 2K install on my lappy and now run only Gentoo. There's a few things I need to get working; bluetooth and gammu spring to mind offhand as do cd/dvd copying but it's running very well.

Given more and more governmentl/education interest in linux and the widespread acceptance of Ubuntu I think the future of linux on the desktop is quite bright.
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[Grey Wolf]

I will continue to use XP SP2 until Gates gets his head on straight.

Honestly, if I upgraded, I'd probably strip it back to 2k for the most part like I did with my XP install.

[Martinus]

Originally posted by Grey Wolf
I will continue to use XP SP2 until Gates gets his head on straight.

Honestly, if I upgraded, I'd probably strip it back to 2k for the most part like I did with my XP install.

[color=66ff00]Did you do it manually or did you use WinXP lite or something similar GW?
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[Grey Wolf]

Manually. Manual is always a much more interesting experience.

[Martinus]

Originally posted by Grey Wolf
Manually. Manual is always a much more interesting experience.

[color=66ff00]Hehe too true.
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[Turnsky]

i'll stick with Xp home until i get onna those phenominal super systems that seem to be all the rage 5 years from now

[neo_hermes]

*starts thinking of several Dilbert cartoons*

[Sesquipedalian]

Wow.  Microsoft is actually trying to give away market share to other OSes.  They just lost any chance of keeping my business.  (Not that they had much to begin with.)

[Martinus]

Originally posted by Turnsky
i'll stick with Xp home until i get onna those phenominal super systems that seem to be all the rage 5 years from now

[color=66ff00]You're waiting on the Playstation 4?
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[Descenterace]

Microsoft will eventually start selling services only, because it's more profitable than writing and marketing OSes and applications in a world where Free Software exists.

Maybe Vista is their attempt to convince the shareholders that 'yes, we are still doing our best' while simultaneously guaranteeing their excuse for moving away from software.

Guaranteeing an excuse other than 'our software sucks and Linux can undercut us at every point', that is.

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Maeglamor

[color=66ff00]You're waiting on the Playstation 4?
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or the XBox 1080

[SadisticSid]

I can't understand why they're even trying to encrypt and protect buses, graphics signals et al - it only takes one enthusiast with  time and skill to break it, produce a crack, and release it on the net. If it increases system speeds by stopping the code that does this from executing, then all performance enthusiasts are going to snap it up immediately. In the long run, does Microsoft profit from such a frivolous exercise in comparison to the (probably) hundreds of thousands of man-hours put in?

[Fineus]

I get the feeling they think they need to show themselves to be making an effort.

Unfortunately though, it will prove fruitless eventually.

[SadisticSid]

Well they probably get a deal from the RIAA/DMCA or whatever it in the US now to implement it...

This little gadget also circumvents HDCP for all those worried about their monitors not being able to play HD content. According to one comment on there "there are the same chips in it like in monitors to filter out the copyright stuff, because you have to do this pre-displaying. They just bought the chips and plugged a DVI-Output to ist. Simple, eh?"

[Kosh]

Is it my imagination or is it odd that an OS (or whatever the hell they choose to call it) would use juat as much system resources as Doom 3?

[Grey Wolf]

MS is very big.


The entertainment industry is larger and richer.


Guess the reason now.