Evil Genius

War Machine wrote:
PS: Buying software is for chumps.

Rolos wrote:PS: Currently looking for a way to keep the version of Windows 7 I intend to download. If I find a way, I'll tell you guys ASAP.

Aetherfukz wrote:I've read LOTS of good things about 7 in local hardware mags. Seeing as Vista is flashy but rather slow I'm really waiting for 7.

War Machine wrote:Now that you mention it, I have no idea of what's new or different in WIndows 7 when compared to Vista other that it's not a resource hog.

arke wrote:It's a usable Vista. Of course, Vista itself is actually usable now but the public is still fixated on the Vista == sux from when it was released. So they're going to throw Vista under the bus and release a polished version as 7.

Aetherfukz wrote:Yeah since Service Pack 1 Vista is quite useable, even it it still hogs a lot of resources - and to be honest I only changed from XP to Vista on my home system for DirectX 10 in games. We now have one workstation at my workplace with Vista 64 (for the latest AutoDesk Inventor and stuff) and we had to buy all new CorelDraw, PhotoShop, Framemaker software although we didn't really want or need the updates just because the last versions (i.e. PhotoShop CS2 AND CS3 which isn't that old) just couldn't be run under Vista 64. I really hope that compatibility stuff gets better under 7. But from a usability and intuitivity level Vista was a huge step up from XP, and I imagine 7 will only finetune all these things instead of reinventing them.

[...]Vista was a disaster for Microsoft. Windows 7 is, supposedly, the light at the end of the tunnel. But the best consensus about Windows 7 is only that it’s not going to be a complete and total clusterfuck like Vista. That it’s something XP users will actually want to upgrade to. Something that, when it comes pre-installed on a new machine, will not prompt questions about how to downgrade to XP.

But no one seems to be arguing that Windows 7 is something that will tempt Mac users to switch, or to tempt even recent Mac converts to switch back. It doesn’t even seem to be in the realm of debate. But if Windows 7 is actually any good, why wouldn’t it tempt at least some segment of Mac users to switch? Windows 95, 98, and XP did.

Microsoft seems to have conceded that the enthusiasts who’ve switched to the Mac in recent years are gone for good. Their apparent goal for Windows 7 was merely to make something better than Windows Vista. If Microsoft were a healthy, functional, competitive company willing and able to honestly assess its own shortcomings — like the Microsoft of the ’90s that conquered the entire industry — their goal would have been to make something not just better than Vista, but better than anything else on the market, including Mac OS X.[...]

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DrPepperPro wrote:I've been using photoshop cs3 with different versions of vista for 2 years.

Finito wrote:bah, im not into themes, WMP12 still as useless, I still have to dl codec packs, shaking windows suck, lets hope it can be switched off, i have not had any compatibility problem with windows XP for any program/game/software ive ever used. Loads of useless gadgets to me. Only reason to get is to keep up with the programs, i hate having to reinstall WMP9 or service packs everytime I reformat. Its free anyway.

LordMune wrote:Every time my computer boots up in less than 60 seconds (which is every time I hit the switch these days) I get an erection.

Aetherfukz wrote:VLC. Everything else just sucks huge monkey balls.

War Machine wrote:So it only took them 3 years to upgrade Windows so it can boot as fast as XP.

Seriously though, my WIndows XP partition boots in like 40 seconds.

LordMune wrote:

Aetherfukz wrote:VLC. Everything else just sucks huge monkey balls.

While VLC will play most formats, it does not play many of them well. CCCP is far superior at handling soft-subs, multiple audio/video streams and multi-channel audio.