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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 45724

Microsoft announced
today that Windows Vista has been released to manufacturing. Vista will mark the first big shift in Microsoft consumer operating systems in over 5 years.
According to
Neowin, the RTM version of Vista will be available for MSDN subscribers sometime after November 10, while businesses

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Safer · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:26 pm Post subject:

Come to daddy!

Sabot · Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:38 am Post subject:

Worthless crap!
2 upgrades and you have to buy a new copy...yeah it's built for gamers Rolling Eyes

This **WILL** kill gaming on the PC -not to mention motherboard,RAM,CPU and graphic card maufacturers.

What the fuck were microshaft thinking??? I upgrade at least twice a year; be it RAM or a new CPU it still counts.

Nope this will kill off PC gaming once the 'honeymoon' period is over and your new Vista $£2,000 rig is useless after 11months, and you need to upgrade.

What a joke!

devilhood · Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 1:12 am Post subject:

Safer · Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 1:38 am Post subject:

devilhood: Exactly - and the old revision was not really diffrent from XP in the first place so one should allready consider oneself screwed. Wink

(btw - listened breifly to you music - very very good IMO)

And further, licensenses for XP by OEM distribution counted towards replacing it compleatly after any kind of hardware upgrade or such when larger components then PCI cards had been removed or uppgraded.

The industries licensens has allways been messed up while the retailers still will not pull down the full force of licence agreement on their customers.

"Well, did the HDD upgrade go well?"
"I'm sorry, but I can't install windows for you..."
"Why?!"
"Your licence key, while it still certainly works, needs to be replaced by a new one. I acctually got a discount for one, only $199.99 for Home edition now!"
"WHAT?!"

And the handling of licence controlls for retail customers will not change anyways.
Activation online - can be disabled with a little trick.
Validation? As long as your key appears as valid no problem. And since no information regarding your hardware generated key or licence key was transmited in a new activation they can not confirm anything just that you have once activated - a simple binary 1 or 0.

devilhood · Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 1:53 am Post subject:

Cheerz Safer Smile

didn't think anyone paid any attention to my signature haha.

Yeah, I guess M$ realise that restricting license usage and creating issues that conflict with an enthusiast's computer lifestyle would be disastrous.
It'll be the same story and the same cracks.

djRom · Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 3:01 am Post subject:

Very nice tracks devilhood! Smile

Definitely enjoying them, keep up the great work. Do you got a myspace page for your work by any chance?

As for this, I was actually thinking about buying my first copy of windows...ever. (Not saying I have pirated Windows, but it tends to come with computers and laptops..When you buy them, lol.) The Ultimate edition of course. Well..Maybe. haha

Safer · Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 3:23 am Post subject:

Try working as IT technitian in a support enviorment - you are bound to pirate windows at some point. Razz

Hopefully I can get my copy of Ultimate through the buisness, much cheaper that way - but my boss is increadibly stubborn - still belives that SP2 is satan so convincing him that Vista is something might be a challenge.

th4t1guy · Senior Member Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Posts: 280

Well, the desktop background says connected, but the taskbar says "cannot find server" Smile

devilhood · Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:29 am Post subject:

xxxx · Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 4:51 pm Post subject:

Vista = snore, more gui bloat and not needed imo. XP ain't dead and it ain't dying for a 'long' time to come. I will go to Vista when it's actually needed.

Stumpus, thanks for the morning laugh... roflmao... go to Betty Ford clinic man, you need it. Pray

djRom · Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 5:08 pm Post subject:

(devilhood) Clearly, since you have been on since mid last month hehe. Well I went to add you. Smile

Yeah, I didn't even think about looking under the contact page. haha

Yeah, I probably won't buy it till 90% or more programs need it and don't run under XP at all.

Sabot · Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 5:27 pm Post subject:

Thankyou very much for that info devilhood, you made my day!!

I was just reading PCZone (which i had just received through the post) when they mentioned the 'two strikes and your out' Vista license. Thought 'what a load of bollocks, what a shafting the industry will get if this is true' Which of course it WAS fucking true PLANK xxxx!

You trying to call me a liar xxxx?

READ THE ORIGINAL LICENSE, PLANK (plank is xxxx real name, because he's 'as thick as...' and easily amused

Safer · Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 5:42 pm Post subject:

XP is in a sense Vistas worst rival as XXXX has proven (thanks man ^^) by his "GUI bloat - XP is not dead etc" comment.

But I for one like the so called bloated GUI, the vastly improved network platform, the pletfora of new media trinkets togather with other fun and ain't afraid to dish out for it, hell if "XP is enough" then 2k is sufficent for anything. But it's ugly and inefficient in a media enviorment which Microsoft pitches with Vista and which undenible is one of the greater perks that people are looking for.

As soon as I get a proper driver support *waves at nVidia and kicks Creative* I'm gonna sit on the RTM version like a hawk til release so I can brag about giving my $300 to MS.

Gah... if they would release it on MSDN allready! >_>

For the poor - bittorrent is still an option as ever Wink

El_Coyote · Elite Member Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 611

im gonna get it when its out for privates. by then the worst kinks should be ironed out anyways. i really like beta2 especially the mediacentre is loads better than what comes with my tuner hardware