windows vista

[Bp-2X]

hey i got a couple of question about thsi windows:
1. is it just me or its look like Windows Xp with more useless feature
2. What are the required for this ? i ear you need DX10 ?
3. what you need to see your "windows" like not in front of you. i mean, is the 3dflip windows usefull ?!?
4. I also ear that this vesrion of wndow sis pretty hard on your privacy ?!?

thx for your help

(btw, vista is comming this november)

[Lich]

Rewrite that in sensible American English please.

[Janus]

Rewrite that in sensible American English please.
lol, I was thinking the same thing.

1) It will have better networking features, productivity software/features, security, etc

2) DX10 will ship with it just like how DX9 shipped with XP (I believe). That or you will need DX10 in order to use the special GUI features.

3) I have no fucking clue of what you said.

4) Haven't heard that at all.

[SteelValor]

All that said, IE7 is much improved :)

[sani]

Note: This article presents the Pros of Windows Vista!
* Major Kernel Overhaul
* Networking
* Media Center Improvements
* Major Audio Changes
* DirectX 10
* New Built-In Apps
* Aero Glass and the New UI
* Security, Security, and more Security
* Should you Upgrade?


Here are some of the leading Cons about Windows Vista:
* No support for DVD drives lacking firmware region coding
* New monitor needed to view Hi-Definition content
* Vista will encrypt hard drives by Default
* Vista may shorten the life of flash memory (by using it for caching via SuperFetch - only has 10,000 writes: bad idea)
* Vista won't work with many graphics cards and will remove games developers' ability to cater for older systems
* Drivers have to be signed for x64 versions of Vista
from here http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista/447034-pros-cons-windows-vista.html

[MitsuMan]

encrypt by default? last I heard they were only putting "bitlocker" or whatever they call it in the vl version. maybe that's changed. the dvd drive support change is bullshit, though.

[Karnage]

4. I also ear that this vesrion of wndow sis pretty hard on your privacy ?!?
(btw, vista is comming this november)
I think I know what he's talking about. When talks about Longhorn (Vista) first came out, there were rumors/concepts of the software and hardware industries coming together to make it "impossible" to crack software. From what I've read on Vista (very little) it seems they have scaled it back quite a bit. There was talk that the computer would automatically connect to the internet and verify ownership and stuff like that. Here's the site. (http://www.bsa.org) I noticed that they no longer list the companies that are involved. I can remember off the top of my head that Adobe, Intel, and Microsoft were some of the big ones behind it.

[Janus]

News about Vista: Nothing til January 2007

[Koron]

If you have an MSDN subscription, you can get the bi-monthly CTP (community technology preview) versions of Vista. The next one should come out in a few weeks.