Longhorn (now Windows Vista) beta announced

It's just announced recently: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.mspx

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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

Can't say I'm overly keen on the name to be honest, but I guess longhorn was never really gonna work.

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So is Windows Longhorn going to be released as Vista? Windows XP was named "Whistler" and Office XP simply "Office 10", but surely Vista is a new codename isn't it? Hmmmm, well I suppose the whole 2000 and XP and power pro etc. phase has all gone now.

They'll probably go on to start using car names, like "Windows Focus" or "Linux Migan" :razz: And have adverts showing screens scrolling across vast landscapes with no one on them.

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

Major new features: Transparency

They call it "the Emperor's New OS".

Major new features: Transparency

They call it "the Emperor's New OS".

L O L

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"Azelito, stop being a f**king bitch. All I see you do is complain and insult people in your recent posts. We don't care, go find a razor you emo pansy..." -Windows98

I've heard that Longhorn - or Vista - is going to have a 3D desktop...



well let's wait for the system requirements AND I think it will have one HELL of SPY-System included.

[x] "Click here to sell your soul to Microsoft now"

(BTW you don't have to click here - we know everything about you anways...)

Transparency was a feature in Windows 2000....

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

what do you need a 3D desktop for, i dont want to see whats on the back of my windows

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Boo f**king Hoo

Lol.. .i'm getting it already :biggrin: 644 mb got, let us hope it does some good :smile:

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The 3D windows view looks very dumb. What's the point? I just don't get it.

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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

is this just a new windows, what so special about it.

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"I would blow your f**king head off! ...if I could afford it. I'm gonna get another job, start saving some money... then you a dead man!"

is this just a new windows, what so special about it.

Well dude, XP is just another windows compared to 2000, yet its a f**k
load better. A new version of the operating system is something special.

Oh, and it has transparency and 3D windows! Thats whats f**king special about it.

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"Azelito, stop being a f**king bitch. All I see you do is complain and insult people in your recent posts. We don't care, go find a razor you emo pansy..." -Windows98

yes but i was thinking it was going to be special completely different from the other and from what ive seen it doesnt look too differetnt.

3d windows? i wouldnt like that.

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Bullet Control: $5000 for a bullet.
"I would blow your f**king head off! ...if I could afford it. I'm gonna get another job, start saving some money... then you a dead man!"

Just got my 64-bit laptop, I may check this out :smile:

This post is really me being proud of my laptop, butwhatever.

I like the idea of a 3D desktop. Even though they haven't done anything particularly useful with it yet (3D windows... meh), I bet that once its out there people will come up with cool new uses that actually take advantage of the 3D aspect in a non-trivial way.

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3DNA Anyone? It is an alternative way to run your comp. It is 3D....you have to see it to believe it. It is like the half-life...except the house you walk around in is your computer....you can walk upstairs to the game room....have locked doors to different areas of your computer....click on pictures on the wall to access games, apps.....check it out....pretty cool stuff

and games to play

Yeah, I've seen it. Pretty cool.

Until Later...

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Madedog said:
Lol.. .i'm getting it already :biggrin: 644 mb got, let us hope it does some good :smile:

Man, those downloads never work! I always end up with 100 episodes of Dragonball with no sound, and I am trying to download Photoshop or something.

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Rofl... nickel... you was wrong :biggrin: I installed it successfully on my Virtual PC 2004 :biggrin: Today will install on my 20GB HDD :biggrin:

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I still don't see what all the fuss is about with Vista. I get it, it
looks very nice and all but who really cares about all this nonsense? I
don't want to wait 30 minutes to open my documents because the system
is busy applying complicated reflection and lighting effects to each
icon. I wanna know if it's more bug-free than previous titles (no wait.
this is windows were talking about).

Lol, no, It is still faster than any previous build, aswell as it should work on lower end systems.

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Should... should...

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3DNA Anyone? It is an alternative way to run your comp. It is 3D....you have to see it to believe it. It is like the half-life...except the house you walk around in is your computer....you can walk upstairs to the game room....have locked doors to different areas of your computer....click on pictures on the wall to access games, apps.....check it out....pretty cool stuff

... can you map for it? :biggrin:

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lol... my lan wasn't recognised in lanparty, i'll try again when i'm
home... i believe it ought to work there... at least i'm sure it would
work.... partly :razz: I couldn't try out Steam though... since it didn't
recognize my net :biggrin:

But I liked it :wink:

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Im gunna save myself the trouble of reading everything and just plain
out say. I'm not upgrading from XP, waste of money and files.

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Nickelplate is my dad

Okay, here's the thing. You had windows 98, with which you could do anything you wanted. you could run a whole lan party on one copy of Win98 with the same CD key, there was no security and user s**te to worry about.

then came 2000 which only businesses and schools used cause it was "all business"

then came XP, that used only ONE CD-key per computer costing me HUNDREDS of dollars (about $200) to make all my computers legit because my FCKGW- pirate copy was teh sux. THEN when you change your hardware you have to RE-activate and go through the phone-maze and talk to that computer that doesnt understand a word you say. THEN you had to set up all your permissions and stuff to share.

Then came XP service pack 2 which was supposed to lock down your computer to secure it. The only thing it did was make it more difficult to share my files across my network at home. +all this .NET s**te and antispyware and thier ANNOYING automatic updates that slow your system down.

How constrictive is "vista" going to be? stupid sideways windows at what cost? They are probably going to be WAY to Nazi on this, I'll not update til about a year after it comes out, if then.

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I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
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You could always turn off automatic updates, not use the optional
antispyware software, and simply install the .NET runtime libraries
and...well, be a little more happy :smile: I too have issues with
filesharing across my network though, despite having gone through a
whole rigmarole of permission settings and whatnot :sad:

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I wouldn't advise downloading Vista unless you're a developer, anyone take a look at XP Beta 1. It is pretty much unrecognizable from XP final. Unless you're a developer you aren't going to notice enough a difference to be satisfied since all of the user end improvements are MIA in beta 1.

I have multiple computers all running windows XP corp. All have questionable keys and not once has it been in jeopardy.

I am not promoting such actions, but the hype about Microsoft shutting your PC down seems overblown a bit.

My PC's have been using the same key for over 3 years, through a dozen reformats and a few upgrades.

I can be persuaded to slip the same key if need be.

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