Sevice Pack 2?

[ross m. greenberg]

(make that two *weeks*!!)

 

[Chad Harris]

I'm getting the impression that Vista Service Pack 2 is out and ready.
Or am I wrong? Windows Update hasn't notified me yet that it is available
update.

james

Why screw with sp2 when Win 7 RC many times better?

CH

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

(make that two *weeks*!!)

When I initially had XP, I never thought much of Creative soundcard software
to the point where I bought a Hercules Fortissimo II. The software worked
like a dream and the sound was exceptional.

 

[john]

Why screw with sp2 when Win 7 RC many times better?

CH

....that's what they said about Vista.

 

[Noel Paton]

Why screw with sp2 when Win 7 RC many times better?

CH

In case you hadn't noticed, Chad - Win 7 RC has a limited life
license.
SP2 doesn't
Win7 will cost $$/££
SP2 won't

'nuff sed?

 

[+Bob+]

You can't tell that he is anti-MS?

You apparently can't tell the difference between fact and fiction.
There's a difference between being "anti-MS" and recognizing reality.

FACT: Every release of MS Windows has a substantial number of bugs in
it that MS is very aware of. We're not talking about the thousands of
unknown bugs predicted based on lines of code. We're talking about the
thousands of bugs they know about that have been reported y software
developers or as part of official beta testing. They deem these bugs
too insignificant to delay the release any longer. If you are lucky,
the released bugs do not impact you.

If you'd ever worked directly with MS in software development, or even
participated in a beta test, you'd be well aware of these facts.

 

[Chad Harris]

...that's what they said about Vista.

I've read way too much that criticizes Vista with nothing substantive to
back it up. I was one of the fiercest critics during the Beta. But having
had the perspective of thoroughly using XP since 2000, and Vista since 2005,
and Win 7 since December, I can say substantively whereas comments like
yours don't document anything, that Win 7 is faster and doesn't memory leak
the way the prior two MSFT OS's did. It's different under the hood than
both of the prior ones.

Comically, most of the worst a criticism of Vista was by people who

a) never used it and were riding the momentum of uninformed word of mouth
b) were stung by the fact that drivers, particularly X64, were slow in
coming out.

Many of us urged MSFT to be more aggressive with the 3rd party driver
manufacturers to get off their butts and move. This included software
drivers as well for 3rd party software.

The vast majority of people who discuss drivers will never know there are
software drivers as well as hdw drivers.

MSFT has been admitting in Win 7 presentations already, that they hurt
themselves in sales by not being all over 3rd party driver manufacturers to
get drivers ready early. They will do better this time around and already
are. I was specific that every peripheral I have is ready to go and
recognized perfectly when Win 7 setup is finished. Printers are up and
ready.

Network sharing is considerably better.

Anyone that takes time to read here owes it to themselves to slice a
partition and upgrade from a Vista or install it clean. The RC 1 is plenty
stable, and I've been able to use all the builds for production. There have
been some IE bug hiccups that were annoying, because beta IEs were installed
in interim builds, but they are resolved in the CPP coming.

Give it a shot. If you find bugs, you can report them. That's the whole
idea of taking it wide, and the same thing will happen with Office 2010.

CH

 

[Chad Harris]

In case you hadn't noticed, Chad - Win 7 RC has a limited life
license.
SP2 doesn't
Win7 will cost $$/££
SP2 won't

'nuff sed?
--
Noel Paton
www.crashfixpc.co.uk

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi

Yo Noel--

So what. As I've stated, *on this thread* so I had noticed, but you didn't
notice I noticed
Win 7 RC1 is good until 3/10/10 @ 7:59PM or about 11 months.

There is no comparison between Vista SP2 as to crash stability and CPU
efficiency and for that reason alone I favor Win 7. I don't know what the
prices will be yet. I haven't seen them; and I don't think the price points
have been firmed up.

My point is that anyone interested enough to read here should do themselves
the favor of slicing about 20GB of partition, and trying it out. I've been
trying it out on the same boxes with XP and Win 7 so I could compare and
contrast. A lot of people might like to do the same thing and arrive at
their own conclusions.

I have a club tie with the same slogan as your Latin slogan, but it uses a
slightly different verb tense.

Best,

CH