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Postby MonteLDS on Fri Jul 22, 2005 10:04 am

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.mspx

what a bad name
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Postby hoxlund on Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:01 pm

awesome, we finally have an official name
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Postby dolphinius_rex on Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:36 pm

wow.... that name sucks something fierce! :o
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Postby Alektron on Fri Jul 22, 2005 3:53 pm

It will have lots of bugs and security holes just like all the previous windows releases. So, we shall wait for 2007 or 2008 to buy it. Before then, everyone can use XP.
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Postby burninfool on Fri Jul 22, 2005 4:26 pm

You can beta test it here:
www.deanliou.com/WinRG/

I think I'll wait until Vista SP2 comes out before I buy it.
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Postby dolphinius_rex on Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:22 pm

Alektron wrote:It will have lots of bugs and security holes just like all the previous windows releases. So, we shall wait for 2007 or 2008 to buy it. Before then, everyone can use XP.


I'll stick with Win2k if you don't mind :wink:
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Postby MonteLDS on Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:38 pm

burninfool wrote:You can beta test it here:
www.deanliou.com/WinRG/

I think I'll wait until Vista SP2 comes out before I buy it.


wow, can we say retarted
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Postby burninfool on Sat Jul 23, 2005 12:00 am

MonteLDS wrote: wow, can we say retarted


Somebody doesn't have a sense of humor.
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Postby hoxlund on Sat Jul 23, 2005 1:41 am

this is the same question i ask all my agents at work

WHATS THE DEAL... I MEAN WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH BUYING SOFTWARE?

sorry that was my best seinfeld impression

everyone's planning on maybe buying this a year after its released

i'll get a few free retail copies from microsoft for retail training

and then never use em or open em, sell em, then dl vista
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Postby aviationwiz on Sat Jul 23, 2005 3:10 am

Vista stands for:
Viruses
Infections
Spyware
Trojans
Adware
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Postby hoxlund on Sat Jul 23, 2005 3:24 am

wow that probably will fit it a few weeks after its launch, gotta give the malicous code creators some time to make malicous code
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Postby dodecahedron on Sat Jul 23, 2005 5:14 am

aviationwiz wrote:Vista stands for:
Viruses
Infections
Spyware
Trojans
Adware
LOL
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Postby ItalianJob on Sun Jul 24, 2005 5:50 pm

dodecahedron wrote:
aviationwiz wrote:Vista stands for:
Viruses
Infections
Spyware
Trojans
Adware
LOL


:P :lol:
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Postby Ian on Mon Jul 25, 2005 12:47 pm

It looks like they might have to change the name:

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21402 ... soft-vista

I'm sure MS could just buy out that company. :roll:
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Postby dolphinius_rex on Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:01 pm

Ian wrote:It looks like they might have to change the name:

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21402 ... soft-vista

I'm sure MS could just buy out that company. :roll:


If Vista hasn't stood up and complained as quickly as they did... in another 1-2 years MS probably would have tried to sue THEM for stealing their name :lol:
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Postby aviationwiz on Mon Jul 25, 2005 6:50 pm

dolphinius_rex wrote:
Ian wrote:It looks like they might have to change the name:

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21402 ... soft-vista

I'm sure MS could just buy out that company. :roll:


If Vista hasn't stood up and complained as quickly as they did... in another 1-2 years MS probably would have tried to sue THEM for stealing their name :lol:


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Postby LoneWolf on Tue Jul 26, 2005 4:29 pm

Personally, I think it'll be called "Windows Vista Cruiser Edition".

Bloated in size, with massive resource usage, and a lot of chrome plating to cover that all up. ;).
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Postby dodecahedron on Tue Jul 26, 2005 5:13 pm

however lame "Vista" is, it's still better than XP.
should just call it windows 2K6 and be done with it.
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Postby dolphinius_rex on Tue Jul 26, 2005 5:49 pm

dodecahedron wrote:however lame "Vista" is, it's still better than XP.
should just call it windows 2K6 and be done with it.


I agree.... I hate these version name things. I like a nice version NUMBER.
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Postby aviationwiz on Tue Jul 26, 2005 6:14 pm

I guess it's out of Alpha and a Beta will be availible for some people tomorrow, I heard like 15,000 people, so it will be leaked soon!
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Postby dolphinius_rex on Tue Jul 26, 2005 7:46 pm

aviationwiz wrote:I guess it's out of Alpha and a Beta will be availible for some people tomorrow, I heard like 15,000 people, so it will be leaked soon!


But it has authentication protection this time... so it probably won't be as copyable (or usable if you do copy it).
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Postby aviationwiz on Tue Jul 26, 2005 10:00 pm

There are always crack for this authentication crap. Give it 20 minutes.
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Postby dolphinius_rex on Tue Jul 26, 2005 10:49 pm

aviationwiz wrote:There are always crack for this authentication crap. Give it 20 minutes.


If microsoft tried for more then 20min to come up with a protection scheme, they'd probably have much less piracy. I think mostly the piracy has been caused by MS showing little to no interest in protecting their software.

Of course, the other reason for such rampant piracy of their software is the fact that they charge about 30x more then what it's worth as an OS.
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Postby aviationwiz on Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:25 pm

Looks like it has indeed been leaked already, :lol:
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