TFMF Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 Microsoft has agreed to make changes to its Windows Vista operating system in response to a complaint by Google that a feature of Vista is anticompetitive' date=' lawyers involved in the case said on Tuesday.[/quote'] Not that i care what happens to Vista, but it's good to see a step in the right direction :D The settlement, reached in recent days by state prosecutors, the Justice Department and Microsoft, averted the prospect of litigation over a complaint by Google that Vista had been designed to frustrate computer users who want to use software other than Microsoft’s to search through files on their hard drives. Google had made its complaint confidentially as part of the consent decree proceedings set up to monitor Microsoft for any anticompetitive conduct after it settled a landmark antitrust... READ FULL ARTICAL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GorunNova Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 ;p... given I don't use anything by either Google or Microsoft to find files on my hard drives, I can't say this makes me even in the slightest bit interested. XD slocate all the way! XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feluxe Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 ;p... given I don't use anything by either Google or Microsoft to find files on my hard drives, I can't say this makes me even in the slightest bit interested. XD slocate all the way! XD given I don't even use any windows os anymore, I can't say this makes me even in the slightest bit interested..... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 mmmm they may change vista but I aint interested, 1. its to expensive 2. it hogs to much resources Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megalith Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 lol i search for files manually, its a rare event where i don't know where the file is located on my hard drive, i have mp3's in an mp3 folder, downloaded files in a download folder etc then i open the folder list them alphabetically and voila! find this method is several degrees of magnitude faster than searching with any automatic method Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFMF Posted June 20, 2007 Author Share Posted June 20, 2007 I don't care about the fact google are getting their way, i'm just glad Microsoft aren't ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hayden Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 1. its to expensive 2. it hogs to much resources DAMN STRAIT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyran Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 mmmm they may change vista but I ain't interested, 1. its to expensive 2. it hogs to much resources I got my copies free from microsoft via the college so I'm gonna keep them lol besides the customers are all buying vista machines now with 512 of ram :) I get to charge for more ram :) as well as an hourly fee to tell them it's slow because it's not got enough ram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 mmmm they may change vista but I ain't interested, 1. its to expensive 2. it hogs to much resources I got my copies free from microsoft via the college so I'm gonna keep them lol besides the customers are all buying vista machines now with 512 of ram :) I get to charge for more ram :) as well as an hourly fee to tell them it's slow because it's not got enough ram bahhh better reason for not buying Vista, damn Ive bought Win98, Win ME, Win XP...and now they want me to pay more...sickening when they give it away in colleges and the rest of us have to work our nutz off for something that is S***E! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USWhoFan Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 mmmm they may change vista but I ain't interested, 1. its to expensive 2. it hogs to much resources I got my copies free from microsoft via the college so I'm gonna keep them lol besides the customers are all buying vista machines now with 512 of ram :) I get to charge for more ram :) as well as an hourly fee to tell them it's slow because it's not got enough ram bahhh better reason for not buying Vista, damn Ive bought Win98, Win ME, Win XP...and now they want me to pay more...sickening when they give it away in colleges and the rest of us have to work our nutz off for something that is S***E! Here is a lighthearted review of Vista I found that fits perfectly: http://www.theblimp.blip.tv/scripts/flash/showplayer.swf?autostart=true&enablejs=true&feedurl=http://theblimp.blip.tv/rss&file=http://www.theblimp.blip.tv/rss/flash/345491&showplayerpath=http://www.theblimp.blip.tv/scripts/flash/showplayer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bones2097 Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 Vista - the most expensive way to make 1 gig of RAM UTTERLY useless. I've got it on my new laptop and it's just Vista with shiny bells and whistles for idiots. Microsoft love to bloat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilander72 Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 Here is a lighthearted review of Vista I found that fits perfectly: Windows Vista Review Nice one. :) I've got it on my new laptop and it's just Vista with shiny bells and whistles for idiots. You don't have to tell us, we know... :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GorunNova Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 Vista - the most expensive way to make 1 gig of RAM UTTERLY useless. QFT. RAM's more useful being used caching, or running programs... not being eaten up by a big brick called 'operating system bloat'. No reasonable operating system should have THAT much overhead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bones2097 Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 to top it off sp3 for xp should boost performance (ms office) by 10% lol.. another reason not to go for vista!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiggy Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 Ah yes Sp3......the conspiracy to get us all onto Vista. I remember when Sp2 came out, my old machines became near un-usable with XP, I had to uninstall it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 I think it pretty much breaks down into: Vista... Good if you're a slack jawed simpleton who wants to see real time readouts from the stock market, what the weather is outside and have everything happy and friendly and easy to use... not that anything beyond e-mail or web browsing will be done. Bad if you value speed, performance or effective use of resources. Do I really need to be able to see what's in a window before opening it? Or a hugely wasteful way to alt-tab through programs? Microsoft do a great job of evangelising the loathesome programming paradigm that dominates our age. Never bother to fix core functionality, optimise code or fix bugs! Instead, add on new bells and whistles to use up all the power of the newest machines! Seriously though, you get the impression that MS just go make an OS that's however many million lines of code and then go "huh, it would probably take us a while to get that working right... oh! Let's start on something new where you can smell your desktop!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbbb Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 I think it pretty much breaks down into: Vista... Good if you're a slack jawed simpleton who wants to see real time readouts from the stock market, what the weather is outside and have everything happy and friendly and easy to use... not that anything beyond e-mail or web browsing will be done. Bad if you value speed, performance or effective use of resources. Do I really need to be able to see what's in a window before opening it? Or a hugely wasteful way to alt-tab through programs? Microsoft do a great job of evangelising the loathesome programming paradigm that dominates our age. Never bother to fix core functionality, optimise code or fix bugs! Instead, add on new bells and whistles to use up all the power of the newest machines! Seriously though, you get the impression that MS just go make an OS that's however many million lines of code and then go "huh, it would probably take us a while to get that working right... oh! Let's start on something new where you can smell your desktop!" Good show! Glad to see I'm not the only one who has problems with vista. You really said it well, I can only say good, very good. I won't be buying a new computer anytime soon. Vista is such a bummer. Any OS that makes 1gb RAM useless is a waste of time and money. DOS was popular because it took up so little resources, meaning you got performance for your dollar. With XP that went poof. With Vista we might as well not bother trying to get the biggest and best computer system for our purposes. I move that Vista no longer be said with a capital V, for it is not worthy of capital letters, and should be henceforth referred to only as vista, in protest of such a crappy OS. (it's not much, and quite frankly a little silly but really it is such a bad OS) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 ANOTHER REASON WHY NOT TO USE VISTA.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7205059.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dBLOOD Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 OMG it is a joke... Softwares like Bitdefender and ZoneAlarm stop working... :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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