Photo gallery: Installing Windows Vista
Summary: The long, long road to installing Windows Vista ... from 3GB DVD.
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Windows code name -- Longhorn: The old Longhorn codename isn't gone yet. The first clue you get that you're getting somewhere is this black and white Longhorn startup page. The empty bar underneath the word "Longhorn" is a progress bar that gives you some feedback that something is happening. But, the whirring the CD/DVD drive is a good sign too.
Credit: David Berlind
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Swicht to Linux!
thats your only choice for a solid and stable operating system.. God knows what MR. Gates has come out with in this new version of windows
agreed
It's just more of the same. In a year or two Gates will be touting *next windows version* as the "most secure" and 'full featured" they've ever made.
Vista is just a few more bells and whistles bolted on top of XP (2k)..
badmouthing the product
Windows XP pro and server2003 (those are the ones I have most experience with) are perfectly fine operating systems, although I much prefer the GNU/Linux way of installing software (through repositories etc.). Just remember that the product is a dead thing, made of bits, literally. It is the people the manage the company that have behaved badly in the past. If microsoft suddenly disapeared of the face of the earth today, then windows wouldn't stop being a decent OS, especially since the people that own it would be gone. So just remember to blame the people, not the product.
blame the people?
<guess that's Microsoft>
When I have trouble in Linux, I blame myself and most of the time I'm right
<but maybe that's just me?>
gradual development...
Vista
Instead Use any GNU/Linux.
Do NOT copy from your friend's disk
Vista
Aero Glass sounds like Looking Glass
the lack of investigation and imagination!!!
Do a little research dude
Hardly.
C# is a combination of the best parts of Java, C++ & VB, with all of the worst parts stripped away or dramatically improved. J# is a copy of Java and intentionally so.
.Net has a far greater scope than J2EE and it's not really reasonable to compare the two.
I'm not going to complain when somebody makes my coding life far easier; Java is currently behind the 8 ball in this respect, but no doubt Sun will eventually bring it up to speed, probably with a faster tun around than Microsoft.
So far as Vista's concerned, wouldn't it be best to wait for the final product before you go picking holes in it? Do you think all the different Linux front ends were original concepts, or were they copied and improved versions of other OS's?
Surely if there's any such thing as a perfect GUI, everything will end up looking the same won't it?
Wow, that was incredibly dull
hey
windows is a copy cat
Problem activating Vista