Heartland

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4857072.stm

curious to know that the technically savy here in HL
think of the features of this forthcoming version of windows ?

phrases like "integrated internet search", and
"digital rights management" give me the creeps, even though
I don't even know exactly what they mean!

I'm not going to bother getting this for at least a year after it comes out primarily so they can de-bug it properly and I'll have (hopefully!) a computer that would make an upgrade worthwhile.

DRM is already about in Windows Media Player, but not many things use it. Yet.

There isnt really anything in Vista that I can't already do using 3rd party software on XP.

I quite like the 3D desktop, but it's really just a gimmick. A lot of the new features I don't think I'd ever use.

CellThree wrote:I'm not going to bother getting this for at least a year after it comes out primarily so they can de-bug it properly

My thoughts exactly. Despite past mistakes, microsoft never learn, and it'll be full of security holes and bugs. Once they are ironed out and once some hackers have removed all the Orwellian spying sh!t then it might be worth getting.

Dan wrote:Orwellian spying sh!t

I think 'Orwellian' should get more use as an adjective these days!

MS is studying OS X very hard so they know what to copy for Vista.

My faithful 2002 (!) laptop won't be able to run it anyway. Plus they'll first launch a crappy version with a whole lotta bugs as they always do. It's only getting worse.

CellThree wrote:I quite like the 3D desktop, but it's really just a gimmick. A lot of the new features I don't think I'd ever use.

3D, can't see that anyway, so what's the use

My computer probably won't be able to take it either, so I guess I won't be doing it, less chance of choosing what stuff you plan to run seems rather rubbish too

Plus, I'm sure I read it somewhere though I can't possibly remember where (the effects of three newspapers and a whola lotta newsletters ) they're advising on quadra-core processors to run it All gets a bit expensive, doesn't it

Obviousman wrote:All gets a bit expensive, doesn't it

You've got to create the need. One of the basic rules of today's economy. We generally use hardwares that far exceed our needs. They just want you to believe :
- that you do need this brand new machine.
- the more powerful - and the more expensive - the happier you'll feel.

I'll avoid it for as long as possible but I fear I'll eventually end up installing it when I have the requirement (probably some game as that's alll I really need Windows for).

This quasi-3d gimmick s**t it's got going on doesn't really impress me.

The next time we get a computer, it's gonna have Linux on it. I'm making sure of that.

need I post? Nah! thought not

Bleh. Vista came too late, I'm about to switch to Ubuntu