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On Thursday 20 November 2008 13:05, Paul Sutton 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. Its the only sales pithc they know: release bad OS. release resource hungry fixes machine starts to run like a pig.... oh look at our new lean next version that doesnt actually contain any of the improvements we said it would. Tom te tom te tom -- 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