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ggrobot Elite Member
Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 45791
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:01 pm Post subject: Windows Vista Goes Gold [22667] |
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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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Source: GGMania headlines
GGMania.com - Daily Gaming and Tech news |
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Safer Senior Member
Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Posts: 279 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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Come to daddy! |
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Sabot Elite Member
Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 2082 Location: The Dark Side of The Moon
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:38 am Post subject: |
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Worthless crap!
2 upgrades and you have to buy a new copy...yeah it's built for gamers 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! |
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devilhood Elite Member
Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 698 Location: Cydonia
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 1:12 am Post subject: |
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Stumpus wrote: | Worthless crap!
2 upgrades and you have to buy a new copy...yeah it's built for gamers 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 $£2,000 rig is useless after 11months, and you need to upgrade.
What a joke! |
Stumpus, before you poo yourself hehe, you might want to read this: http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39163866,00.htm
I dont think M$ are gonna screw us over as bad as we all once thought. |
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Safer Senior Member
Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Posts: 279 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 1:38 am Post subject: |
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devilhood: Exactly - and the old revision was not really diffrent from XP in the first place so one should allready consider oneself screwed. (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 $199.99 for Home edition now!"
"WHAT?!"
And the handling of licence controlls for retail customers will not change anyways.
Activation online - can be disabled with a little trick.
Validation? As long as your key appears as valid no problem. And since no information regarding your hardware generated key or licence key was transmited in a new activation they can not confirm anything just that you have once activated - a simple binary 1 or 0. |
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devilhood Elite Member
Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 698 Location: Cydonia
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 1:53 am Post subject: |
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Cheerz Safer didn't think anyone paid any attention to my signature haha.
Yeah, I guess M$ 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. |
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djRom Elite Member
Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 365 Location: South Jersey, USA
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 3:01 am Post subject: |
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Very nice tracks devilhood! 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 |
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Safer Senior Member
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 3:23 am Post subject: |
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Try working as IT technitian in a support enviorment - you are bound to pirate windows at some point.
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. |
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th4t1guy Senior Member
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 8:51 am Post subject: |
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Well, the desktop background says connected, but the taskbar says "cannot find server" |
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devilhood Elite Member
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:29 am Post subject: |
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djRom wrote: | Very nice tracks devilhood! 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 |
I really wanted to buy Vista as well, but I'm totally short on cash, so depending on what the OEM version will cost for Ultimate, I guess I'll see.
Yeah, I have a myspace, there are a few external links on the Contact page, including a rather rediculous blog I post on now and then.
http://www.myspace.com/devilhood
I don't make a habit of logging on myspace often though. |
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xxxx Elite Member
Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 1755 Location: Canada
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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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. |
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djRom Elite Member
Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 365 Location: South Jersey, USA
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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(devilhood) Clearly, since you have been on since mid last month hehe. Well I went to add you. 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. |
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Sabot Elite Member
Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 2082 Location: The Dark Side of The Moon
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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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 Quote: | Stumpus, thanks for the morning laugh... roflmao | gee whiz....
The only clinic that would take you is Auschwitz...what a dim-wit, if brains were dynamite you wouldn't have enough to blow out a candle...
Back on topic; it's still going to cost more for the 'gaming version' damn |
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Safer Senior Member
Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Posts: 279 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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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 |
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El_Coyote Elite Member
Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 611
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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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 |
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