SE:V v1.56 History

Santiago · #1 October 3rd, 2007, 07:45 PM

While I'm not a Vista fan, it does have a bad reputation nowadays. In some circles Vista is known as Windows ME II. Some of it bad rep is deserved.

Imo the biggest problem with Vista is that while it's an ok operating system generally, it needed to be a "GREAT" operating system to draw consumers and business's alike, with one flavor or maybe two like XP. And it's not doing that. And not have OEM's like Dell offering XP or Linux.

In the long term the microsoft monopoly still wins. If they sell XP or Vista, microsoft still gets their cash. Time is on their side as eventually you'll upgrade or buy a new pc and get Vista or whatever follows it. But for now they're not getting my cash.

reverend · #2 October 4th, 2007, 01:37 PM

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Forget Vista, it sucks, come back on XP!

If I wanted a GOOD operating system, I'd go back to W2K.
If I wanted a GREAT operating system, I'd install Gentoo (or *insertyourfavoritedistrotoavoidanyupcomingflamewa rs*).

But that's not really the point...

It's brand new machine, configured with Vista in mind. So, no, I'm not paying MS for XP, just to be able to play SE5 (the only game that had serious problems so far).

I have a Dell laptop running Linux, so I wouldn't exactly call myself a MS fan. Still, I'm a SW developer, I need to see at least if my code works on Vista, or what generally goes on on the OS front.

And, frankly, so far, I'm positively surprised by Vista (Premium - anything less is, indeed, ME II). My expectations HAVE been quite low, however.

Especially concerning games, aside from an odd glitch with WinSPMBT which was fixed by a driver update, NO problems or bugs at all. Also, Visual Studio.NET (and Eclipse, for that matter) runs and compiles like a beast, so all around, Vista does it's job.

Back to the point...

In my original thread, someone mentioned that this bug was in fact an old bug that somehow reappeared. That's why I asked if it may have been 'silently' fixed?

Leternel · #3 October 4th, 2007, 01:55 PM

Oh, if you are a SWdev, it changes everything...
testing requires multiple OS, including Vista (poor programmers!)