[ale] Windows Vista - Way OT

[Denny Chambers]

Speaking of Vista, /. has an article about Vista's EULA not allowing the 
cheaper version of Vista to be installed Virtual Machines. The article 
is a Vista vs. Mac point of view, but this also effects products like 
VMWare. To run Vista in a VM, you must buy the Enterprise and Ultimate 
version, which is at least $100 more that the Basic Home version.

I have the Ultimate version loaded in a VMWare, because I needed it to 
test some stuff for work. I have found it to be a big pain in a$$. I 
guess once you get it set up and all of your SW installed, it may not be 
any more annoying that XP, but I often got asked 3 or 4 times "Are you 
sure you want to do this" type of question for each piece of SW I 
installed. The SW I installed uses the network, so I got ask if Vista 
should block this SW or not. I had to explicitly tell Vista that yes you 
can get on the network, it's safe. I am glad M$ is taking security 
seriously, but in Vista the security is very disruptive for the user. 
Also some apps got moved around a little, so it some searching to find 
some things.

Denny



Preston Boyington wrote:
> Calvin Harrigan wrote:
>   
>> Ironically enough I'm installing vista right now.  I'll post my critique 
>> if anyone is interested.
>>
>>     
>
> i would be interested in an as unbiased review as possible.
>
> like most people i've read the PC World article:
>
> http://pcworld.about.com/od/longhorn/Lab-Tests-Vista-s-Fast-If-You.htm
>
> and some others online...mixed reviews, but that's nothing new.
>
> a friend of mine was all excited about the "aero" desktop until i showed
> him some beryl videos.  he said beryl ran faster from the sabayon livecd
> than aero did installed.
>
> from my personal standpoint it is doubtful if i will install vista on
> anything of mine for at least a year.  i do too much CAD work and
> there's no need for me to upgrade anything for at least that amount of time.
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