Windows Vista Hardware Requirements

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DaveW said:
Tom's Hardware has posted an article that purports that Vista may require
2 GB of DDR3 RAM in order to run. And that's just for starters.
Read here: http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050908_100000.html
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Hardware will catch up to the "Holiday 2006" release date. Besides,
Microsoft has bigger software problems right now. Their OpenGL
implementation is a dog. .NET is still up in the air, or at least its Java
like promises are a long ways off. The WinFX world is foggy as hell right
now. Gamers are out. Servers don't need the eye candy. And developers
are chasing dangling carrots hoping to master this land of confusion (curb
the market on newly ported software). Damn, I hate Microsoft.
 
Brian said:
Hardware will catch up to the "Holiday 2006" release date. Besides,
Microsoft has bigger software problems right now. Their OpenGL
implementation is a dog. .NET is still up in the air, or at least its
Java like promises are a long ways off. The WinFX world is foggy as hell
right now. Gamers are out. Servers don't need the eye candy. And
developers are chasing dangling carrots hoping to master this land of
confusion (curb the market on newly ported software). Damn, I hate
Microsoft.
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I'd say that is pretty obvious, so why be concerned with possible problems
with their new operating system? Use the one you have now or learn Linux and
bitch about that. Of course with Linux there is no one person or company to
blame or hate.
 
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Hardware will catch up to the "Holiday 2006" release date.
Besides, Microsoft has bigger software problems right now.
Their OpenGL implementation is a dog. .NET is still up in the
air, or at least its Java like promises are a long ways off.
The WinFX world is foggy as hell right now. Gamers are out.
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Not sure what you mean. Gaming is just fine on Windows XP.
... Damn, I hate Microsoft.
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I just wish Microsoft would have been corrected. But our current
(United States) administration is all for "might makes right". It
doesn't know that businesses must play by rules. That practice is
our current foreign policy as well. Unfortunately, Democrats are
just as gung ho. And all of it is eating away at our country.
 
PWY said:
I'd say that is pretty obvious, so why be concerned with possible problems
with their new operating system?
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You seem to be reading more into my post than I inteded: Microsoft has more
software concerns than hardware concerns. Examples listed. Frustration
expressed at learning a new API that's a moving target.
Use the one you have now or learn Linux and bitch about that.
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You're bitching about me bitching. Clever. Or stupid. Whichever.
Of course with Linux there is no one person or company to blame or hate.
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So your own analogy is flawed. Few can pull off the "opensource is just
like Microsoft" argument.

But since you started the topic, why do you think my personal OS choice has
any bearing on the industry trends at all? A new Microsoft OS will be
released. A new version of Office will be released. *Developers will adopt
Vista*. Consumers will adopt Vista. Microsoft will eventually drop support
for XP. Businesses will adopt Vista. Hardware will move to 64-bits. Vista
will be preferred over XP/32. Hardware will move to multiple cores.
Software will be developed for multiple cores, but target the Vista
platform. Software will be developed for 64-bit but target the Vista
platform.

The forward momentum started years ago. Microsoft deserves some bitching
for getting too ambitious in world domination.
 
Where would the computer industry be without MS? You hate MS yet they are
responsible for pushing computers to where they are today........still
installing xinux are you?
 
This thread is irrevocably derailed. So let me bury it properly. George
Bush is just like Hitler. ;-)
 
And its bollocks considering the BETA runs fine on current hardware.
Vista is no more than XP with a few whistles and bells added.
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It's my understanding that Vista will adapt to your hardware so while
it will run with all the eye candy etc. on dual 64 cpu, 512mb video
card, DATA2 HDD, and 2gb of ram it will also run fine on a lower end
system. It will lower the graphics qaulity of the GUI etc. to match
your hardware.
 
John said:
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Not sure what you mean. Gaming is just fine on Windows XP.




I just wish Microsoft would have been corrected. But our current
(United States) administration is all for "might makes right". It
doesn't know that businesses must play by rules. That practice is
our current foreign policy as well. Unfortunately, Democrats are
just as gung ho. And all of it is eating away at our country.
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Oh sure. Hurricanes would cease, poverty would end, Bin Laden would rejoice
and we'd enter the peace millennium 'if only' Microsoft were 'corrected'.

What in the world are you sniffing/slurping/snorting?
 
Oh sure. Hurricanes would cease,
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Straw man.

So you think the thousands of deaths could not have been avoided?
poverty would end,
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Straw man.
Bin Laden would rejoice
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Huh? That doesn't follow your other straw men.
and we'd enter the peace millennium 'if only' Microsoft were 'corrected'.
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And another straw man.

The troll likes making straw men.
What in the world are you sniffing/slurping/snorting?
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I don't do drugs, but you must, considering the fact that you say Microsoft doesn't hold monopoly power over the personal computer desktop operating system. Something is clouding your vision of facts already clearly decided in court.
 
First logical and truthful thing you said.
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Have you seen the picture of our president smiling and playing with
a guitar while people were drowning in hurricane Katrina?
 
John said:
Straw man.

So you think the thousands of deaths could not have been avoided?




Straw man.




Huh? That doesn't follow your other straw men.




And another straw man.

The troll likes making straw men.
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They're not 'strawmen'. They're farces to illustrate the farcical nature of
your rant.

I don't do drugs,
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Ok. So you're just naturally loony.
but you must, considering the fact that you say Microsoft
doesn't hold monopoly power over the personal computer desktop operating system.
Something is clouding your vision of facts already clearly decided in court.
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A 'fact' must first exist to be 'considered' and I never said a blessed one
of the things you just rattled out of your imagination.
 
John said:
properly. George



Have you seen the picture of our president smiling and playing with
a guitar while people were drowning in hurricane Katrina?
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Get a clue.

The President has no authority to over-rule local and state government and
it was the Governor who flat prohibited the pre positioned Red Cross and
other agencies from entering the area to provide aid because she didn't
want the Superdome and Convention Center to 'become a magnet'.
 
David Maynard said:
They're not 'strawmen'.
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That's true, but they are straw men (two words).

Main Entry: straw man
Function: noun
1 : a weak or imaginary (argument) set up only to be easily
confuted (Merriam-Webster)

That's exactly what they are.
They're farces to illustrate the farcical nature of
your rant.
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My rant? You suggest incredibly silly things and call my factual
post a rant? Very strange judgment you have.
Ok. So you're just naturally loony.
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Your mother said I'm okay.
A 'fact' must first exist to be 'considered' and I never said a
blessed one of the things you just rattled out of your
imagination.
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I recall you saying so. If you insist, I will quote you.
Then again, you will just deny the obvious as usual.

Do you understand that Microsoft holds monopoly power over
personal computer desktop operating systems?

That is a fact clearly decided in our courts.
 
John said:
That's true, but they are straw men (two words).

Main Entry: straw man
Function: noun
1 : a weak or imaginary (argument) set up only to be easily
confuted (Merriam-Webster)

That's exactly what they are.




My rant? You suggest incredibly silly things and call my factual
post a rant? Very strange judgment you have.




Your mother said I'm okay.




I recall you saying so. If you insist, I will quote you.
Then again, you will just deny the obvious as usual.

Do you understand that Microsoft holds monopoly power over
personal computer desktop operating systems?

That is a fact clearly decided in our courts.
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Since it's clear you've lost all control of what meager mental facilities
might be left you may now go back to your self appointed mission of saving
the internet from spammers because there's little use in my talking to a
babble machine.
 
John said:
Obviously that fact rubs you the wrong way.

Cope with it.
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You wouldn't know what a 'fact' was if it bit you on the nose, as is
evidenced by you snipping what really are 'facts'.
 
David Maynard said:
You wouldn't know what a 'fact' was if it bit you on the nose,
as is evidenced by you snipping what really are 'facts'.
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All I presented was a single, simple fact. That our president was
smiling and playing with a guitar in front of an audience while
thousands of people were drowning in hurricane Katrina. Maybe
implied, but I expressed no comment. What part of the fact is
difficult to understand?

OUR PRESIDENT WAS SMILING AND PLAYING WITH A GUITAR IN FRONT
OF AN AUDIENCE WHILE AT THE SAME TIME THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WERE
DROWNING IN HURRICANE KATRINA

And David Maynard makes pathetic excuses for that. That's just
pathetic.
 
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