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UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Fair play, but not much good if you want to play games.
ChrisC said:I'm sorry to say I have had it with Windows and I'm currently using the latest version Ubuntu and it's sweet.
F**k Vista and Microshite.
That's a nice thought, but i always end up coming back to windows. I don't understand where all this hate towards windows comes from, because in all honesty, it is a good OS.
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
at the risk of sounding cock sure there is a world of difference between a ghosted work set up which allows for infinate reosurces to be thrown at a problem than a home user set up which will be unique to the user...ChrisFilter said:
Pingu
Credo
sojourner said:Yes
Am having this exact same issue with this myself at the moment. It's incompatible with the call logging software we use. Marvellous. Am gonna have to downgrade to XP if poss
you can run apps in xp mode under vista on the .exe right click and select properties and then under compatibility select the mode you want it to run in.
may or may not work for your particular programmes
skunkboy69
Reverend of Eternal Light
The first time I installed Vista on my old 32 bit puter it was awful.My specs were easily capable of what it needed but it still ran shitty.On this new dual core jobby it's perfectly acceptable.I haven't found anything that I havent been able to do yet and am reasonably happy with it.I was an Xp fanboy too 
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
I'm gonna wait til sp1 comes out and the dust settles... then i'll switch... unless of course the proported sp3 for xp actually inlcudes most of the feature sets of vista...in which case i won't...
kained&able
Here for the football.
I had very few problems upgrading for xp to vista ultimate.
Pen tablet needed new drivers, keyboard was actinging strangely, printer needed new drivers, graphics card needed new drivers, virus checker refused to work and yeah thats it so far.
Don't think there is any point inn vista unless you have 2gig of ram at least, its very resource hungry.
The reason i ended up grabbing an upgrade was that i want i to be able to play crysis with bling shadowing and stuff and driectx 10 is vista only.
dave
Pen tablet needed new drivers, keyboard was actinging strangely, printer needed new drivers, graphics card needed new drivers, virus checker refused to work and yeah thats it so far.
Don't think there is any point inn vista unless you have 2gig of ram at least, its very resource hungry.
The reason i ended up grabbing an upgrade was that i want i to be able to play crysis with bling shadowing and stuff and driectx 10 is vista only.
dave
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Direct X 10 is the only compelling reason I've seen to go the vista route. What graphics card are you running?
kained&able
Here for the football.
nvdia gts8800
so yeah a good un.
dave
so yeah a good un.
dave
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
GarfieldLeChat said:
I work in the SME arena, so a million different OS setups.. no ghosting for us, sadly. Wish there was! We're introducing standard builds soon through a program called N-Able.
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
inc standard hardware builds to?ChrisFilter said:
Not on Vista Home you can't - VH was purchased pre-installed as I thought I only needed bog standard OS for the PCs to run the software - the comms company also thought this. WRONG!Pingu said:
Thankfully, Dell have come to the rescue and are sending me 2 XP discs
Twatting Vista
skunkboy69
Reverend of Eternal Light
sojourner said:Not on Vista Home you can't - VH was purchased pre-installed as I thought I only needed bog standard OS for the PCs to run the software - the comms company also thought this. WRONG!
Thankfully, Dell have come to the rescue and are sending me 2 XP discs
Twatting Vista
Is that the Home basic? My Home Premium lets me do it.
ChrisFilter
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GarfieldLeChat said:
Well, we always sell the standard HP business desktops, but clients will always be seduced by PC World adverts and go and buy their own 'Advent' number from time to time...
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
sojourner said:Not on Vista Home you can't - VH was purchased pre-installed as I thought I only needed bog standard OS for the PCs to run the software - the comms company also thought this. WRONG!
Thankfully, Dell have come to the rescue and are sending me 2 XP discs
Twatting Vista
Not really Vista's fault. The software developer should really have released an update by now. I appreciate your frustration though.
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
i'm sorry it appears you system isn't supported, under the terms of our contract...ChrisFilter said:
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
should they?ChrisFilter said:
why?
microsoft released vista too earlier and they know it, look at the turn around for the service pack 1 which is the shortest in any M$ dev time for an os.... they knew it wasn't ready like IE7 before them but instead of releasing when it's good and ready they had to get the rush on cos of osx and intel macs....
they also have little faith in their OS after all why would they continue to support xp til 2010 (which if 2000 is anything to go by will be extended to an sp4 maybe even an sp5...) either way there'll be a new M$ OS out by that time which will remvoe the need to ever go near vista... regardless of the benifits of vista it is another ME, in principal a good idea but too limited in terms of function and dev time to be of any use...
ChrisFilter
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sojourner said:Yeh, let's put the blame on the software developers who don't work for a bajillionaire's company (who should have fucking well put an option all ALL new OSs to downgrade)
Well, allows downgrading, but I take your point.
There will always be casualties when a new Microsoft OS comes out.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
GarfieldLeChat said:i'm sorry it appears you system isn't supported, under the terms of our contract...
Yeah, we're heading that way, getting a lot stricter.
ChrisFilter
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GarfieldLeChat said:
Service Pack 1 hasn't been out yet, I don't think?
Vista will be around for a long time to come, at the very least it'll be the next 4 years.
I know it isn't a populist opinion, but I have little sympathy for commercial developers who can't release program updates a year after a new OS is launched. It's not that different to XP, that's why most stuff runs.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
sojourner said:
I'm not saying Microsoft were right. A perfect release would have provision for programs running way back to DOS. What I'm saying is that everyone knows MS are a million miles from perfect and it's likely that a new OS will bring a whole heap of problems. Surely commercial developers should be aware of this and work to ensure compatability?
It's a bit like being angry at the sky because it's raining, instead of putting up an umbrella. Microsoft won't change, everyone knows this, so I don't see it as an excuse for commercial developers, or indeed hardware manufacturers.
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
(whispers 4 years takes us to 2011ChrisFilter said:
)it's also if may say slightly illogical consdiering the lengths which M$ go to to support win 3.2 (which of course is precisely why their system is still prone to viruses hacks and exploits) if they go to all that lenght to ensure their own backwards compatiblities why the fuck they can't support more recent and decent programs with out causing the devs huge head aches and why they can't release the SDK's a bit fuckign quicker rather than on the OS launch date then i'm afriad that they'll always be tagged with the sloppy workman title...ChrisFilter said:
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
no it's more like the playgorudn bully saying giove us your lunch money or we'll kill you ... oh and your family friends and anyone you've ever met....ChrisFilter said:
no one repeat no one got the SDK until launch date of the beta 3 which became the release 1 with nothing changed or altered which is why earlier iterations were sooo very buggy...
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