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On Thursday 20 November 2008 13:40, aashish kumar wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 18:35, Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Tom Potts wrote: > > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/20/windows_vista_overtime/ > > > > > > Costs me more than that* and I haven't even installed it! > > > Tom te tom te tom > > > > > > > > > > > > *in laughing at its failures and bitching ... > > > > How does a modern PC with vista end up taking as long as 15 minutes to > > be ready to use from switch on and then 15 mins to switch off, perhaps > > they are not using vista hardware, or perhaps they bought vista ready > > PC's upgraded to vista only to find the actual specs needed for vista > > were higher than they have, > > > > If people go out and buy Windows 7 after this sort of farce, they need > > their heads looked at. > > > > on the subject of Windows 7 > > > > http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/10/28/windows_seven_review/ > > > > transparent windows, hmm, i have that on my Debian desktop here running > > KDE, have had this for years, and before vista was even released, > > looking at the specs its still pretty high just for an operating system, > > designed to interface a user with applications, eh > > > > Also its faster, then they mention that features have been removed for > > the preview relase, this means once they are back in the software will > > be back to good ol bloatware that windows is, and always will be. > > > > > > Paul > > I would like to mention here the case of Mac OSX (Tiger and Leopard) they > both too have awesome graphics capabilities with low hardware requirements > (by the way everybody knows that Vista is copied from OSX) but yeah KDE is Vista is based on Unix???????????????????????? > much better. > > Aashish -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html