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Neb
Hi Everyone!
Does anyone know for how long is beta Vista going to work
after it's installed?
Thanks!
Neb
Does anyone know for how long is beta Vista going to work
after it's installed?
Thanks!
Neb
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Nicolaas Hawkins
Do you mean before it crashes and locks your system up, or before the
lecence expires?
G
Gary R. Schmidt
It's usually in the README file, which is usually available separately.Neb said:
Cheers,
Gary B-)
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Yrrah
Vis$ta will make your computer explode after 350 hours of runing it,
so you can buy an expensive new Vi$ta system. Of course you could also
decide that this is the right moment to switch to Linux.
Yrrah
J
John Jay Smith
If you have gotten a producy key from MS, then
Vista Beta 2 will expire on May 31, 2007.
but there will be a RC1 (release candidate one) that will be available
also...when its ready
Vista Beta 2 will expire on May 31, 2007.
but there will be a RC1 (release candidate one) that will be available
also...when its ready
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El Gee
Neb said:
This is *SUCH* a loaded question and completely off topic. <snicker>
When has any OS worked after install? The answer will depend on the OS
and the conditions.
It is no secret I am not a MS fan, but I have had an OS from MS run well
a few times.. XP has been great (except for media... movies tend to lock
it up), Win2K was very good..very very stable, and I even had WinMe
running stable for a couple of years until I reloaded it...then it went
to hell in a handbasket...
But truth be told, those who try this "beta" are real adventurers that
have a good spare partition and a lot of guts. Vista will be great for
some users, but murder on others. If you like what you see, buy it. If
you are happy, use it. I for one, will not use it on my wife's
partition until XP is not longer supported. By then my wife will have
her own PC (and I will not have to dual boot).
I am very sad to hear my company (who provides support for other
companies) is creating a corporate image of Vista for one of our biggest
clients. I pity the Windows support guys...
Enjoy the beta test. Let us know how well it does.
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Mark Carter
El said:
Vista seems to be getting a bad reaction from many of those that are
trying its beta. Many problems have been spotted. Some people ... let's
call them "Microsoft apologists" ... state that this is to be expected
as Vista is only beta, and it will be cleaned up before it is released.
My heart sinks when I hear this, because, as the quip goes, it seems
like deja vu all over again. I recall people going on about how XP was
essentially released in a beta state. And it seems that Vista "proper"
will be released in such a state, too.
You know, I'm wondering whether this Vista turkey is ever going to fly.
Alas, it probably will, although some exhausting flapping may be
required. I'm getting a vibe that Win2k was actually quite good. Maybe
MS need to revisit the whole Win2k idea, with a view to seeing what
useful thing can be done with it.
J
John Jay Smith
At last, a logical person on the whole internet.....!!
It is a comfort to see that at least one person is still sane on this
planet...
It is a comfort to see that at least one person is still sane on this
planet...
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Mark Carter
John said:
I wish my workmates were here to see what you just wrote
Whilst I'm on a roll, it'd be nice if MS developed their scripting thing
that they said they were interested in. Maybe they could bung in a few
UNIX utils. And make the GUI optional. Oh hell, why not just cobble
together a BSD like what Apple apparently did. No. Wait. I want an OS
based on Lisp or Forth. Then we'd have a reflective OS that had a
unified language all the way through. No need for C++, C#, or even my
favourite: Python.
Do I still pass the sanity test? Maybe that makes me "hyper-sane", or
something.
Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible,
so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense
equally unintelligible.
-- Allan Watts
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Neb
Neb said:
Thanks for all your thoughts.
I am not really sure that I am better off now then before I asked
the question but thank you anyway!
All the best,
Neb
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Neb
Thank you Gary!Gary said:
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Mark Carter
Apparently, it's a barrister trick to ask questions in a certain way,
and thereby influence the answer. So they might ask either "how /fast/
were you driving", or "how /slowly/ were you driving".
Turning back to the original question, we can now see that the correct
way to word it is: "Does anyone know for how *short* is beta Vista going
to work after it's installed?"
J
John Jay Smith
my answer is the correct one
Neb said:
R
Renan
Mark Carter said:
I was thinking about trying the Vista beta, but gave up after I found
the system requirements. (I talked to a friend which is testing the
beta; it is rather crude and eats ~15GB hard disk and ~500MB RAM at
boot-up. And requires a good machine).
Since my current machine only has 512MB RAM, Vista is out of
consideration (unless I do a really big upgrade).
Maybe other time I will try to get it working in [OT, OT, OT!] VMware.
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The Wizard
Neb said:
Heh!, You've posted to a newsgroup for paupers (All software must be free
and they probably have hand-me-down PC's to run rubbish on as it won't run
modern software)
<Ducks>
Seriously though, I think it's 2007 and yes it does slow even a prety fast
PC down, A bit like 98 to XP did.
Don't mention Linux,Never even tried that after the desktop screen looked so
awful.
It's just for people that want to be different (and get stuff for free of
course)
Better the devil you know I say, If everyone switched to Linux tomorrow and
ditched MS, They too would see the $$$$ signs and start charging heaps for
it.
M
Mark Carter
The said:
I do use hand-me-down PCs - although my main machine was bought new in
2002. We live in such a profligate society. Come the recession, we might
not be so wasteful.
Not usre that makes it right, though. From what I hear, even a
high-specced machine is going to have trouble with Vista. Which may not
be a bad thing for those who want Vista to fail ... people like ME, for
example.
It's no so bad, oh fussy one. KDE does look a bit like a multi-coloured
lollipop, it's true - but it';s quite good. Gnome looks more restrained,
and I'd hardly say it's aweful. XFCE is even more toned down. It looks
sleek, and it's faster than the other two. Then there's the
ultra-minimalise desktops (Rat Poison, Ion2, etc.) in which there's very
little to dislike.
My KVM switch is acting strange as of late, so I decided to make my
Xubuntu into a server, and now access it via putty.
As opposed to people who like to pay for stuff that they can get for
free anyway??
For real, there's stuff that Linux does better than Windows. /Some/
driver support is better in Linux - and you get a lot of useful software
with it, ready to go. With the Debian-based distros, software is just an
apt-get install away. That's vastly better than Windows.
Hmmm, not an entirely convincing argument.
No they wouldn't. AFAIK, Linux is under the GPL. Anyone could fork it
tomorrow. And besides, there are already commercial distributions of
Linux, which already charge for it. But you can still get Linux for free.
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Doesn't it, though? I really wish there were some Microsoft
newsgroups so people wouldn't have to discuss their commercial
software here. Alas, there aren't any, and I guess there will be
more Vista stuff posted here tomorrow and the next day and . . . .
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beenthere
You`ve just given me an idea Q.»Q« said:
How about when this sort of rubbish happens, people just
respond with..."Off Topic", and leave it at that.
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Nicolaas Hawkins
and on a parallel level of reasoning(?) you could decide - just this once
- to forgo the opportunity to (yet again) proselytise for you beloved
Linux - which is off topic for the thread anyway.
J
John Jay Smith
news://msnews.microsoft.com
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