Originally Posted by Republic
QFT? You clearly lack the capacity to understand the context in which I was speaking. Let me break it down for you, as you appear to need help...
Vista is to XP as Millennium was to 98...that is, a worthless piece of a marketing toy upgrade to bide time for developers to put out the real upgrade product (Windows 7).
I cannot stand Vista and don't consider anyone using it (especially "tech types") to be any type of power user as they'd like to be thought of. For example, the neat guys who list their system specs in forum sigs (not necessarily here, but we've all seen 'em) down to the color of their damned mouse while listing Vista as their OS. To me, they look like bigger idiots than the people who haven't a clue. It's like they're smart enough to build their own rig and choose a red special edition mouse, but they're too stupid to use a performance OS (which VISTA is not, even in current build).
Do you understand now? If not, I'm not sure I can say much more to help you. XP remains the best gaming OS on the current market. Windows 7 is expected to be the next major OS, not Vista (again, just like the Windows ME was for Windows 98 while waiting for Windows XP).
/shrug
We basically have the same opinion on Vista yet you somehow missed my message. Oh well, perhaps you get it now.
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<----- Runs Vista.
<----- Computer Programmer
In my experience, the people who get this worked up about Vista, usually haven't used it long enough to know what they are talking about. I have machines that run Vista, I also have machines that run XP. Aside from the file copy bug (Fixed in SP1), I've seen no noticeable performance difference between the two. I'm not saying the guys with the FPS counters are making up their numbers, but personally I can't tell the difference between 130 vs 120 FPS so I'm not going to worry about it. On the other hand Crysis looks noticeably sharper in DX10 than DX9.
Understand, I'm not a Microsoft fan boy, for programming and general use I prefer Linux, Windows is my gaming OS. But really, the vehemence out there against Vista is just silly, especially since no one ever says why they hate it, they just do.
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I actually have to agree with the title of this article. It
was a sneaky move on Microsofts part. Not because they have no business offering a Firefox addon (they certainly do), but because when I see an update titled SP Upgrade for .NET (or whatever the exact title was) I should be able to reasonably expect it to make changes to .NET
not Firefox. Now if they had named it .NET Compatibility Update for .NET... no issue there.