Vista

WillowTheWhisp said:
Maybe there'll be some nice cheap PCs for sale with the good old XP on them?
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If there is let me know LOL!! Was sceptical about Xp at 1st but have to say im rather impressed with it once passed the validation process LOL:D

Im even more sceptical about this vista tho!!!
 
Let me clarify,

1) Willow, no problems, webites are just html docs, domains is a word used more than once in IT, you get used to it after a while

2) 1 gig is enough for vista, yes it hungry and a lot of people don't have 1 gig but to say it needs 2 gig is downright a lie (and you all know how anti M$ I am)

3) yes it teh 'new' version of windows just liek XP was new about 5 years ago

4) it is far more 'secure' than XP and for a non techincal user should protect them a lot more than XP does. However the 'cost' of this is that techie users find it extremely intrusive when you want to do stuff.

5) you only have cover on XP for ~2 more years and then you will be on Vista like it or not, think like you were still using win 95 today, thats what it will be like.

the big issues being discussed are HD playback and DRM . now thats is what will be interesting over the next 6 months
 
Domain

A website is officially called a 'domain'

in Windows, you set up 'domains' which if you like set out boundaries of a certain set of network resources.

e.g. in Websphere Applicatin server a domain means something different again

I'm sure that there are other uses of 'domain' in IT, i'll thinkj of them later
 
Vista ultimate has like nothing worth the extra £130 .. the few things extra you can get free from 3rd parties anyway..

Hopefully people will start looking at Linux as a real alternative now, Vista takes up a huge amount of resources and really dosn't offer much for the price to say Linux is completely free!
 
The new system was also launched in America yesterday, where it will cost between $100 and $249 (£51 to £127) depending on the sophistication of the version, whereas in this country it will be priced from £100 to £249, almost exactly twice as much.

Can your computer handle Vista?
The minimum specifications for a PC that Microsoft claims Vista will run on:
• 800MHz processor
• 512Mb memory
• DirectX9 capable graphics processor
For what is called the Premium Ready status, the following is the recommended minimum:
• 1Ghz processor
• 1Gb memory
• 128Mb graphics memory
• 40Gb hard drive
• DVD-ROM
• Internet access
To tell if your machine will run the new software, visit www.microsoft.com and download a program which will analyse your computer and offer advice on whether it can handle the new Vista system.:p
 
Looks like teh DRM stuff has pretty much been beaten as well. Things are looking up :D

Bill Gates was asked why its double teh price in teh UK to America. "We try and keep our prices teh same but I haven't been following the currency markets to notice and changes that may have affected this" he says, #



Errr..... Bill, its been over $1.90 to the pound for nearly a year now!!!
 
entwisi said:
Bill Gates was asked why its double teh price in teh UK to America. "We try and keep our prices teh same but I haven't been following the currency markets to notice and changes that may have affected this" he says,
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I've noticed the same sort of thing with other stuff from the USA - my cousin in California can buy something at $5 and over here it's £5. It's as if they seem to think the £ and the $ signs are interchangeable.
 
Microsoft has admitted that speech recognition features in Vista could be hijacked so that a PC tells itself to delete files or folders. ....lol
 
its possible but not really likely. it needs a combination of flaws to take effect, one of which is teh human in charge and in that case every PC has a flaw :D
 
I wonder if its possible to create music that had the correct frequencies in certain parts to make it sound like somebody was issueing commands, but the human wouldn't know because they'd think it was music?

Possible?
 
nah, sound waves sound the same, Voice recog is bad enough at dealing with accents, never mind music pretending to be speech
 
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