Posted on 04/15/2006 6:04:14 PM PDT by Panerai
Microsoft has instituted a scary new antipiracy policy on the forthcoming Windows Vista: if you steal it, it won't look pretty. The OS includes a new graphics display engine called Aero, which performs such mission-critical tricks as creating translucent windows, animating flips between open programs, and displaying "live icons" that show a graphical representation of a file.
But if a piracy check shows that you haven't purchased Vista, you won't get the fancy-pants graphics action. Oh, and if you buy the cheapest version of Windows Vista, you won't get Aero either. Oh, and if you don't have a fast enough PC or one of the, like, nine graphics cards that meet the Vista requirements, or you don't have enough memory bandwidth (what, now?), you won't get Aero, either. And hopefully, assuming you buy the OS legally and have the properly mystical configuration of technology to run it, there'll be a button that lets you turn off all that Aero junk, so you don't have to live with what sounds like a supremely irritating collection of resource-sucking whirligigs.
(Wow. Is it wrong to have this much anger toward an operating system that barely even exists yet?)
(Is it wrong to have this much anger toward an operating system that barely even exists yet?)
If it's a Windows product the answer is no.
I love XP and can't see any need to change
I would'nt want all of that fancy graphics capability anyway because its going to require a lot of cpu and graphics horse power which is going to make pc's that much more expensive.
I would prefer an memory efficient operating system that was not fancy but would dependably operate all of your software. Windows as it exist is a disaster. everytime you do a security update or something the system go's nuts.
I don't need that. thanks
Same here.
It's hard to take someone named Molly Wood seriously. Reading her screed makes it even more difficult.
Gosh, Microsoft doesn't want it's product stolen? Selfish!
It takes first class hardware to run Aero glass? Discriminatory!
The weeping that enforcement of licensing rights evokes still surprises me. You were probably still pissing in diapers when Netware 3.11 checked every client on the LAN for a license. The Unix types have been doing it far longer than that. Don't hurt yourself on the packaging.
I have tried the lastest Vista build, it needs lots of work at the present time, its pretty unstable, but does look to have promise if they get it figured out.
Same here.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHA! No way.
Same here. Until they drop support for it and won't allow updates to be installed, á la WinXP SP1....forcing you and I to finally embrace Linux. At least for me, that's the point where I finally tell MS to go F themselves.
One can have all that right now anyway without the resource hogging.
Download and try the Emerge desktop shell. It replaces Explorer as the Windows desktop shell, uses less resources and is quite nice.
It has all the features of Explorer and adds mucho functionality through the use of applets.
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