About the free upgrade thingy, read about the details here
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=365298

You should be able to get Original windows vista (retail) on February 2007 considered the GA (General availability) is set at 30 January 2007.

cphcphcph - yes, it is backward compatible. I'd definitely recommend you to use wikipedia before asking your question

Thanks for the heads up fariz.

If Microsoft plans for another release so soon, probably Vista isn't worth getting anyway

Wah, it's very difficult to read your sentence la bro.

Anyways, I'll only review it once I got my retail version of Vista

That's only part of the product roadmap, it's not getting released at least in 3 years

RTM = Release to Manufacturers. Search it in Wikipedia for more information

MX510: I hope you're not asking for warez

Anyways, Microsoft claimed that as long as the requirements are met, Aero doesn't really slow down the PC and it can be used without guilt. How true it is?
http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=36751

Any idea about the OEM pricing in Malaysia? Saw the neowin article, the OEM version of WinVista Ultimate in pound sterling, is SOOOO expensive after converted
http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=36816

Source please. Empty talk is meaningless

That's not OEM pricing, neither that's pricing in Malaysia...so this is not what I'm looking for...

XD saw that some time back.

Now deciding whether to get Home Premium OEM or Retail

Eh, now we can't see all the nice graphic (HDD Map) during Disk Defragmenting already? What a shame

BTW, the search function is cool. If you know how to utilize it. You rarely have to access the folder by browsing into it. And how do we know if the ReadyBoost is really doing its job?

This post has been edited by samurai1337: Jan 14 2007, 08:30 AM

For OEM, it's tied to one version (either it's 32 or 64)

For Retail (box set), it has both 32 and 64 versions (in fact the DVD-ROM itself has all the functions from home basic to Ultimate, the functions depend on the License key itself, not the disc)

Any idea where can I get Windows Vista soon it gets released in Malaysia? (It should be end of this month right?). How will be the prices in term of Ringgit Malaysia?

Or at least, whom should I contact if I wanted to ask someone in Microsoft Malaysia?

http://www.microsoft.com/malaysia/events/v...h/vista%5Fhunt/
Who wanna team up with me? Credit to AsenDURE for informing me this

Ala....so fast give up

So two of you already confirm? 3 of us then, and I might be able to pull one chick in

Details to be discussed in PM

First post is updated, as well as topic description

PM-ed rayfoo about my details, once I got the address from my friend, we will have the full list already

My friend is Se_vixen
http://forum.lowyat.net/user/se_vixen

Our team - (Team MacOS X - temporary name)

Rayfoo (老虎) - team leader

Other members
samurai1337 (leetle kid)
se_vixen (underaged kid) - if ffk will kena RM50 penalty
joey kun (IIS Desperado)

I already asked the Sarah from Software Exchange, she said they will be opening a booth at LYP during the launch day, there will be gifts and promotions for buying Windows Vista and Office 2007.

And no, guys. You can't really just convert from USD

You can check the price in http://www.softwareexchange.com.my

For all the OEM at the moment in LYP, there's only 32-bit AFAIK

For gaming/multimedia, you definitely should go for home premium. Why?
http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winvista_02.asp

Read the "Digital media features" part

I can see the purpose of that security feature, while it is indeed annoying most of the time some executables are being executed without the consent of users. And the reason it's there by default is because most of the users (at least MS assumes) do not have strong common sense in security.

You can disable that by going to "User Account->Turn UAC Off" in your control panel. But of course, you'll say the Security Alerts is very annoying coz it keeps on nagging you to turn it on again, you can just go to "Security Center" and have the notification turned off

This post has been edited by samurai1337: Feb 1 2007, 01:04 AM


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