I have Beta1 which I installed in VM. The lack of search menu in the start GUI (I BLAME GOOGLE FOR THIS) turns me off tho. And DreamScene is not supported yet in this Beta. But it's fast. EXTREMELY.FAST. compared to RTM

everything really. File transfer is quite fast, and the overall response time is also a bit faster. Also better options such as which HDD to defrag, which drive to use as bitlocker, etc

It did, but I didn't bother.

While I respect ur VIP tag, I found that you comment unacceptable. It's quite fun to use and all OS has bugs anyways ecspecially initial build. XP took 5 years to mature, thus why are people quick to complain about Vista? It's not like the bugs are major, more like better optimisations and also some screwed up ppl at google want us to use their desktop search. Bad drivers from both ATi and nVidia didn't help the cause much, and also the fact that many major companies sees this as way to get quick buck by not supporting old hardware/softwares anymore means that it's never really the OS's fault in the first place.

heh, I only got 1 bsod, and that was because my bloody friend suddenly unplugged my HDD for no reason whatsoever

Beta are not meant for full usage. It's only for testing purposes. Even I dual boot into it. It might be possible but not advised

Depend on your take. Honestly, I loved the built in indexing, and I used it on XP. while you might say less monopoly = better product, that takes does not seem to make sense in some cases. Windows Search is and definately will always be superior than the phatetic google desktop search. The most lolwut case is that Real Media vs Windows Media Player. On one hand, you have a shareware, which is full of adware, and have many faetures locked untill you pay for the full version. On the other hand is a full freeware that you have bundled with the OS, does not mind if any other software want to make itself a default player, have a good library, burning and ripping feature, and you don't have to pay anything to use it. And yet they are deemed the bad guy here just because it works well. Ironic.

= Not supporting old Hardware/Softwares
I have a quite new canon all in one scanner, printer, copier. During beta testing for Vista I already alerted Canon that the driver did not work for Vista, and they send me a nice reply that they will make a new version. Then Vista launched and I did not received any new driver. Thus I called them and ask them about it. Their reply? "We feel that you need to buy our new printer. We will not make a new driver for Vista on this". I was flabbergasted. mind you, this product is one of the new product that they released at the end of 2005, thus there is still much shelf life in it. It was a blantant attempt to make people buy their new product. It's up to the consumer wether that they want to upgrade their OS.

On SP1, did you really read the whole news?

exactly. which is what Vista was intented to do all along and XP cannot do. XP has too many holes and without autoupdates, the patches seems like a new OS to the users.


The reason DirectX was created (it was hailed as teh creation of the century by PCGamer) was it's ability to let the OS communicate directly to the hardware without the developer have to learn complex coding. It was never superior to OpenGL, but more friendlier to developer.

Real loose to every player there is out there. Which is why I feel it's weird that it wanted to come up against the free WMP, when you need to pay to get teh full usage of Real Player. Free players are now becoming more and more common, that I think it's not Real vs WMP, but Real vs everything else.

new bootscreen

Update will be provided (either standalone installer or Windows update) if you have already RTM installed.
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Just got the new beta from Connect


This post has been edited by linkinstreet: Dec 3 2007, 04:32 PM

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And the pirated issue, i don't want to comment