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Sat Oct 08, 2005 12:02 am Reply and quote this post
Here's some pics of Vista beta 2


It has a nice desktop, I especially like the transparent recycle bin, and the semi transparent task bar.



It also has some nice transparency on the top bar of open windows.



There are two new wallpapers so far, this is the second one.



As promised, a much better, and better looking Alt+Tab bar


The graphics of Vista are really great, but I had a few problems with the usability of it.
First, my mouse was extremely jerky, very hard to use.  Also, it just ran considerably slow overall.  I was suprised, as my CPU was rarely, if ever at 100%, so that was not the slowdown.  All I can conclude is that I have just too little or RAM to run it smooth.  But, when I turned off most of the special effects stuff, so it looked like Windows 2000, it was still having problems.  Also, the same thing happened with a second mouse I used.  Possibly it was a driver issue, but I doubt it.
Also, I could not get my wireless card to work with it.  Device manager didn't even recognize it.  I installed the drivers for it, which did nothing.
The mouse issues really caused me problems, and I was not up to do more tests because of it.  If I happen to pick up some more ram, I will try it again and see if there are still problems.  But, as it is, I am dissapointed with the problems that I found.


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Sat Oct 08, 2005 7:15 am Reply and quote this post
Nice...

Where'd ya get it?

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Sat Oct 08, 2005 8:11 am Reply and quote this post
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Where'd ya get it?

PM me.  I don't think Predator would appreciate me telling on the forum ;)

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Sat Oct 08, 2005 8:24 am Reply and quote this post
Ah, I'm pretty sure I know where you got it. ;)

Anyways, the demo looks quite good. But, I heard somewhere that Microsoft declared Vista failure?..

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Sat Oct 08, 2005 8:56 am Reply and quote this post
Well, I question whether it's illegal or not, cause M$ has the keys for it on their site, sitting there for the public to take.

No, Vista isn't a failure, but there are definitely bugs that need to be fixed.

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Sat Oct 08, 2005 9:55 am Reply and quote this post
They declared Longhorn a failure.  They have been working on fixing it for about a year and a half now.  I am not sure if this is what they have been working on, or the remanents of the failure.

Reccomended memory is 1GB, 512minimum, and 2GB being good.

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Sat Oct 08, 2005 10:09 am Reply and quote this post
Yeah, that's what I thought.  It should have worked for me.  It must have been something else.  Maybe I need a better video card for it.
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Sat Oct 08, 2005 10:17 am Reply and quote this post
So it was declared a failure. So, why is Microsoft still working on more Betas? O_o
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Sat Oct 08, 2005 10:30 am Reply and quote this post
Where are you guys getting this from?  I think it's all just a big rumor.  Or, do you have a link?
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Sat Oct 08, 2005 2:56 pm Reply and quote this post
Let me re-find the link...

Well it seems that the article was removed (not sure why) but here is the digg post about it:

http://digg.com/software/Windows_Is_Offica...has_admitted_it

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Sat Oct 08, 2005 4:58 pm Reply and quote this post
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but there are definitely bugs that need to be fixed.


It's a beta, what do you expect?

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Sat Oct 08, 2005 9:29 pm Reply and quote this post
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but there are definitely bugs that need to be fixed.

It's a beta, what do you expect?

What I expect is that the mouse will work.  That's what I'm asking for here.


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Mon Oct 10, 2005 4:36 pm Reply and quote this post
Looks like Windows XP with a GUI overhaul. :P

Anyways I have been wanting to give Vista a try and see how it really does compare to XP.

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Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:10 pm Reply and quote this post
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Looks like Windows XP with a GUI overhaul. :P

Anyways I have been wanting to give Vista a try and see how it really does compare to XP.

Yeah, that'd be nice, to get get some other people to test it and see if they have the same problems that I did.

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Tue Oct 11, 2005 5:18 pm Reply and quote this post
M$ should give XP a GUI overhaul and pass it off to the public as Vista!   :rolleyes:   The sad thing is that 90% of consumers would probably actually fall for this!   :wacko:

BMR777


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