vista ultimate edition

[chav1]

got to get used to teh new lay out but i like it

you can even have some cool stuff on yor desktop that says your location and outside temperature mines set to accrington of course , even got a puzzle game in my taskbar to play while i wait for things to finish

right back to my hard drive with xp on it for a while to sort out my old pics lol

[entwisi]

Oh dear Chav,

Vista is properly broken. a lot of users are finding it takes an AGE to move copy or delete files, there are issues with hardware drivers for even mundane things (including the ability to talk to Microsofts very own Pocket PC), forget it if you have an iPOd as it will wipe your iPod of music.

As for the 'cool' stuff, Linux has had desktop widgets via Superkaramba for YEARS, you can embed stuff in your desktop (I have a nice ticker with the threads from my fav Usenet group), weather, system performance monitors, 3D switching of desktops (Windows and Virtual Desktops), in fact, there is nothing in Vista that hasn't been on Mac and Linux for a country age.

[chav1]

dear entwisie

have you actualy used it or just going off what you read on google

any new OS ewill wipe your ipod that is apples fault not microsofts but like posted before there are ways around it as i have now sorted out 3 other peoples ipods

no problems at all and i am sure that any i ocme across i will be able to deal with and if i cant then i will google for help and if that dosnt work then i will go back to my xp hard drive until a fix is released

it cant be that bad because your favourite place PC world are selling all tehir systems with vista home on lol

[entwisi]

Yes Chavie, I have used it, I beta tested it reporting a number of bugs.

Whys its apples fault that a perfectly useable piece of software stops working because the OS has decided to implement something a totally different way and does not check that you aren't trying to use software not designed to run on it? That s poor software design on Microsofts behalf, not Apples.

yes, its being sold all over the place and its going to cause a lot of people a lot of trouble. e.g. another 'bug' that has gone live with no fix date even planned is teh exif editing facility. it has a habit of rendering teh images totally unuseable. so those nice pictures you have suddenly are useless bits of data that no-one can do anything with.

It is quite honestly no where near fit for purpose and more and more sites are showing that. You don't have to be a Linux guru to know that an OS that will destroy your data without asking is not a good idea.

[Tinkerbelle]

I've got Vista Home ... hmmm something or other lol ... pre installed on my laptop from Pc World and I also like it too Chavster

It has some diggy little gadgets to play with

One thing I have noticed is the help is easy to navigate and sorts the problem when your having trouble with something.

[entwisi]

comes to something when the thing that impresses is the help system that tries to solve all your problems

[Tinkerbelle]

LOL! I'm only a little home user though, with not much techie knowledge so I'm easily impressed

[Neil]

Originally Posted by Tinkerbelle

LOL! I'm only a little home user..... so I'm easily impressed

Thats what mthead told us

[entwisi]

Tinks, what 'score' does Vista give you for your laptop, if its under 3 then you don't get all the wizzy bits

[Tinkerbelle]

I think I spotted that it said 3.0 ... does that sound right?

I'll have another look tomorrow, I'm on the pc at the minute and can't be bothere loading the laptop up

... and before you ask why I'm on the pc instead of my all singing & dancing Vista laptop it's because my SecondLife game isn't Vista compatible yet lol!

[chav1]

dont wory tinks you will be fine

lets just say .

linux is free and still cant manage to be the number one choice

[Tinkerbelle]

Originally Posted by chav1

dont wory tinks you will be fine

I know, I'm a fan of Vista already 'cus it has pretty pictures on it

My score is 3.0 Entwisi, I checked this morning.

[andrewb]

Originally Posted by chav1

dear entwisie


any new OS ewill wipe your ipod that is apples fault not microsofts but like posted before there are ways around it as i have now sorted out 3 other peoples ipods

Funny that, I plugged my friends ipod in to my Ubuntu Linux laptop and it displayed all the songs and didn't wipe a thing. I could even copy them from the ipod to the laptop if I wanted, which I don't think is possible normally.

[flashy]

linux is crap

[Neil]

Originally Posted by Tinkerbelle

My score is 3.0 Entwisi, I checked this morning.

Who did you check with, mthead?
I would slap him for saying your only a 3 out of 10