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Overall, Vista Beta 1 is stable and can probably used as the main OS of a computer. Bootup took about 40 seconds to bring up a usable desktop. But it does have visual bugs and quirks you’d expect a beta to have. Folders would not refresh automatically at times, as mentioned previously, and during the few hours we used Vista, ClearType would be disabled mysteriously during some startups. Nevertheless, the operating system on a whole is looking good, considering it’s been 4 years since Windows XP was released. Microsoft has done away with the space-consuming sidebar previous milestone builds of Longhorn contained (the one with an analog clock); personally, I welcome this change – the smaller the amount of clutter, the easier it is to teach someone how to use the system. The ‘Aero’ visual style is looking sleek, and much less cotton-candy like compared to Windows XP’s Luna UI. Even though Beta 1 is only supposed to be 30% feature complete, the product is definitely taking shape, and I am definitely interested to see what Beta 2 would bring.
I heard that Build 5048 was very buggy. PCWorld stated that there was pretty much no difference between Longhorn & Windows XP w/ Service Pack 2 other than a better visual rendering engine.
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Any beta is going to be buggy. So it is no suprise at all. Also since this is only a beta they are working on a lto more stuff. There is also a lot of stuff \"under the hood\" being done too.
Also Vista is the same as Longhorn. Longhorn was just the code name whiole Visat is the official name.
yes i was talking about 32 bit windows xp. The windows xp x64 is being relaced with vista and fully pulled of the shelves in a few months. huge flop in stability i guess.
If things do not change, then I for one will not be getting Vista.
For a start, the openGL is (controlled?) via directX, meaning more than a 50% decrease in performance for applications that use OpenGL.
Secondly, the specs needed are horrible. Thirdly, one of the interesting parts of Vista will be free to download for windows (The new filesystem and unix style permission handling)
And last but not least, it's just no worth the upgrade. Unless I really need it. (which I doubt I will anytime soon after it's realesed)
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For a start, the openGL is (controlled?) via directX, meaning more than a 50% decrease in performance for applications that use OpenGL.
I don't know about this, but if anything Vista will offer improved performance. There is a lot of performance work going into everything, including new hardware design.
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Secondly, the specs needed are horrible.
How is that? Any mid-range and better CPU would be fine. 512MB is recommended as a mininum (just like Windows XP). For video card all you need is a DirectX 9 card that has at least 64 MB of graphics memory. I am sick of hearing all this crap about people needing an awesome computer just to run Vista.
Every time a new Windows version is released the same stuff happens. Everybody says performance is going to be worse, they are not going to upgrade, bashes Microsoft and all this other rubbish. Then some idiots come out with useless tweaking guide misinforming tons of people.
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