Comments on: Microsoft: All roads lead to Vista

Free support, PC maker backing, and XP's uncertain future mean one thing: like it or not, Vista is coming to your desktop. Are you ready?

[The_happy_switcher]

and unfortunately this same road

leads to hell for the end user.

[The_happy_switcher]

Gates: Stick a fork in your company

It's over. Sell the company and give the money back to the shareholders.

[(alt+shift+k)]

How much would it cost for linux?

It's free and you won't need an upgrade on your system unless it is like 10 years old.

[shadowca1964]

All Roads Don't Lead to VIsta

Although my current computer may be able to run Vista, I am not going to install it on my one and only computer. I am going to remain with XP as my machine runs well. Why fix someting thats not broken. I will wait until I purchase\build a new computer that I know will handle Vista .

[Headfoot]

Lets make this simple...

Just put DirectX 10 on XP and call it Vista. It'll work faster and will have all the same features. (Or at least the ones you cant get just as easily from a 3rd party)

[Imalittleteapot]

I'll got for that.

They would have to debug it, make sure all service pack code is in there. They should strip it of whatever dead code they can. They really only need the 64 bit version. Should they do a 32 bit version? Don't know, but they don?t need to.

Then update XP's hardware support for the newer hardware to keep it flowing. SATA, SSD, multi-core chips, more max ram support, EFI, and what not. Get the 64 bit drivers from everyone.

Port Aero, but fix all of its bad issues. Remove whatever they can from the file system. I really only need a My Documents folder. After that I can handle it myself. Don't need My Pictures, My Videos, or My E-Books. You know. I say five default folders tops in My Documents.

No Superfetch just tweak XP's memory management for 1 gig and up. Keep good security features like randomized code layout (buffer overflows) and registry virtualization. Of course I don't know if these ever made it to Vista, but no UAC.

Control panel should have boot up controller. Easily found tool to disable programs that boot at startup or set other boot options. Should have option to block programs from setting themselves to boot at startup. Even if they are running as admin.

Control panel should also have icon that accesses various system logs. I forget if Vista does this or not, but in the past msconfig/system logs hard to find.

Some of these things, all of these things. Either way. Put it in a shiny package, off it goes. Yeah, I'll go for that. I mean that's I wanted anyway.

[Headfoot]

No, if you were a gamer you'd think the same thing

Why would you think different if you were a gamer? That statement makes NO sense.
If you were a gamer your computer would cost 2-3 times more than your office computer, so you would want it to be stable and reliable MORE because you paid so much MORE. Also if you're a gamer you dont want to wait for the 1, MAYBE 2, games that come out for OpenGL every year.

"Cool, I've got a Mac, Lets game! Wait... All I can play from the last 3 years thats worth playing is Doom 3 and I guess World of Warcraft. I guess I could just play Warcraft 3 some more then..."

[cross platform]

Well On A Mac There's

always " Boot Camp ". Because they now share intel MBs you can boot your Mac into Windows and play anything a PC can. Full speed. Not as critical a difference as it used to be. That's if you're just talking the hardware and not the OS. And before you start Macs do have some serious hardware now days.

[Headfoot]

Top of the line

Are you joking? Here's the cheapest not top-of-the-line-but-close rig comes. A quality 550W power supply is 70$. Your OS is 90$ (If you're a student), 170$ for a quality Motherboard. 250-1000$ for a quality processor (AMD 6000+ or Q6660 and up). A video card that can actually play games and is good for HD rendering/video editing, 190$ (8800 GT, best performance per dollar). 50$ for 2GB of RAM, least amount needed for "top of the line". 500 GB HD, 90$. Case, 50$. DVD-Drive, 20$. Case fans, 40$.

So essentially you can get a NOT top of the line, but FAST computer for about 1000$ if you build it yourself. You're 300 short.

[Imalittleteapot]

Yeah well.

Don't buy the best processor. Just wait until it's maybe #1 or #2. That's why I got an AMD 5000. I'll just pop a new mobo with Quad in later or something, but the 6000 fits in the same darn socket and it's cheaper now.

I could get a system like that maybe 7, 8, 900 dollars. Maybe less I don't know. Hell I could get Quad Core 4 gig of ram 8800 Ultra for $150. I'd just have to half a decade to do it.

[lormahoykyd2007]

Hey this is for Mary Jo Foley

I already have the SP3 for XP in it's RC2 beta release a full release should follow. However don't expect anything more that a few minor patches. Sorry guys. New case, motherboard, and memory this month, and Vista OEM next month.

[safampc]

My XP .. My Kubuntu

XP in Classic Mode And ncleaner , ccleaner and ausologics boost speed .. My PC Ran Faster Than Xubuntu 7.10 ( XFCE ) ....

I Installed Kubuntu 8.04 ( beta ) ( KDE4 ) .. with Compiz Fusion. . Kicks Aero In ( You Know Where )..
Still It Runs Fast .. Since im a newbie .. Im Trying to get my HP All in One To Work .. And Some DVDs .. Rest All Works.

[MrEngine]

gotta love ignorant hatred

nah be truthful here.
the main reason you dislike Linux is because you cant stimulate your brain cells enough to realise in all truth that the distros like ubunut and pclinuxos and even open suse all beat the pants off any version of windows graphically and also price wise.the three i have just mentioned are all as easy if not easier to install than windows, i cant compare to OSX as i have never used it but since its Unix based i would be willing to bet that it would join the same league at kickin windows ass in ease of use.
since linux is a free operating system why shell out for sub standard crap like vista that forces you to upgrade hardware or memory just so it will run?

[SilkHope]

Tired of being bullied..

Am one of the "holdouts" in the 6,000, but hope more that I'll end up open source, *ANY* open source rather than.. Wouldn't it be just totally grand if it was, like, say, even this very weekend.. :wink:

Just tired of blinking and finding these fingertips completely behind the Times because one entity or another has a strangle hold purely by Fate..

Guess it was just my imagination that at some point our government hinted we were going to go wide open ensuring everyone, *everyone* would have ample access to current technology.. Ain't gonna happen if it's proprietarily priced out of our reach at a never-ending pace..

YES, I know.. They paid their dues.. But think about it.. What if someone like good ol' Henry Ford had taken the same *road* to selling his vehicles..?

Where would we be right now..?

If Henry had done with his automobiles what has been being done with computers and software to date, we'd be *walking*..

Cyber hugs from Talking Rock.. :wink:

[jeffgtr60]

Thumbing my nose at u c-net

Vista isn't going on my computer. Quite happy with Leopard. Lucky me.

[blleong2008]

C'ya MS

When Microsoft stops selling and supporting XP, I won't be holding my nose and moving to Vista. It will be the final push to get me to move to a Mac, a move that many of my colleagues have already made. And they all seem pretty happy.

C'ya Microsoft.

[davisss13]

Vista

What the hell? How much did Microsoft pay the author to spew this BS?

[catbus99]

A bit of irony

Looking closely at Caroline McCarthy's photo accompanying the article, I couldn't help but realize that Vista didn't quite prove to be the shot in the arm to computer retailers that was hoped for. So it goes.