Bill Gates unveils Vista editions, impersonates teapot.

R Soul on 27/2/2006 at 11:49

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Bill Gates pretends to be a teapot.

All these different versions of Windows Vista:
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4754462.stm)

I get the feeling that the 'not business' versions will all be horribly hand-holding and have pointless graphical garnishing.

On the plus side, it'll give hackers a new target so maybe people with older MS operating systems will be left alone.

descenterace on 27/2/2006 at 12:13

Quote:

"We don't want customers to be forced into buying something that isn't going to meet all their needs," said Barry Goffe, Microsoft's director of Windows client product management.

"Well... we do, but we don't want to make that intent obvious."

So how many people are going to go with the cut-down version, d'you reckon? :cheeky:

Linux and Mac OS are looking better all the time...

Headphones on 27/2/2006 at 12:33

didn't they do this with the new xbox too?

release one with no fucking features that nobody wanted, i mean

there's choice and there's stupid

but i don't know, maybe it's making them lots of money, who cares

d0om on 27/2/2006 at 13:11

I can't see any features there that would make me want to upgrade from XPpro.

Reasons for upgrading your OS are things like having more advanced hardware that isn't supported under old OS (eg HD with > 2GB space, 64bit processor etc) or if its much more stable than the previous one.

Vista doesn't seem to have anything going for it.

SubJeff on 27/2/2006 at 13:28

I think the Ultimate edition will have to be the one. But a dual Linux install and/or a second machine with WinXP might be a must just in case.

Shug on 27/2/2006 at 13:29

d0om pretty much hits it there. People upgraded from 98 to XP because 98 was frankly pretty bad. System files would corrupt themselves, you'd crash all the time, so much as sneezing at Control Panel required a reboot.

But XP isn't actually too bad. It does what you need, when it crashes you can recover without having to restart, it runs games and applications pretty reasonably. There's no "finally a better system!" type of vibe with Vista. It's more along the lines of "how about we wait until it's less buggy, and someone's released a patch to get rid of all the DRM crap, then I might actually test it."

Shevers on 27/2/2006 at 13:31

Except that Vista is going to be bought by people who are buying new PCs from PC World, for example. It'll be as inescapable as everything before it.

Fig455 on 27/2/2006 at 13:36

this is the same crap we hear everytime a new Win OS is unveiled. Do you have to run right out and buy it? No.

Teh-Builder on 27/2/2006 at 18:10

How can you resist not getting an os called ULTIMATE edition. It's like, THE editon to get. Cause it's like ULTIMATE you know.

ZylonBane on 27/2/2006 at 18:18

Heh, looks like I'll be upgrading from 98 to XP just as XP becomes "obsolete".

/has a 2K partition for software that needs it