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Vista public BETA released
Calum:
--- Quote ---Microsoft has been stealing from Apple from the beginning when they introduced Windows 95.
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actually they have been ripping apple *and* ibm off since the very first release of microsoft windows (which i think was imaginatively called 1.0)
they even went to court about it i believe, back in those prehistoric days, did they not?
ReggieMicheals:
Yeah, they went into court, several times actually.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_vs._Microsoft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notable_litigation_of_Apple_Computer
Guess who won? Microsoft did in this particular inident.
Think if Digital Research was the company IBM selected to create operating systems for their computers instead of Microsoft. Then again, IBM would've been driven belly up with the high prices of CP/M.
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: ReggieMicheals ---http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notable_litigation_of_Apple_Computer
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LMFAO, Apple have done it all :D
carl sagan, hah, can't believe apple did all that!
toadlife:
Well I just got it installed on my work PC for the first time on a second hard drive. I didn't have time up until now. The PC is an A64 3000 with 1GB ram and a Geforce 6600 - basically a middle of the road PC right now. It installed much faster than I expected and it seems fairly responsive. My machine supports the "aero" look and runs it fine.
I have work to do, so I can't play with it much right now. Some stuff is moved around but I didn't have too much trouble finding the control panel thingys I needed.
Oh an BTW, I installed it on a second hard drive, with the first hard drive having a freebsd bootloader, and the vista installer didn't touch the boot loader. I was suprised by that.
emuelle1:
I don't know if I'm ready to trust it. I put the Office 2007 beta on my laptap. It bogged the system down really bad, so I uninstalled it. It didn't uninstall right. I had Office 2003 and XP installed, and neither will work at all. Office 07 shows up in my add/remove programs list but when I tell it to remove it says there are no files to remove. 2003 and XP won't reinstall correctly at all, at least, not that they're useable. I spent several hours deleting Office registry keys, and barely made a dent in the total. Other than Open Office, I get the feeling that only a reformat of my laptop will fix all the problems the Office 2007 beta caused.
And so, I'm not even about to trust the Vista beta.
I'm working on switching to Linux, which will be slow. Linux doesn't work with wireless very well, but I need wireless support. I'm installing a Solaris DVD on my older laptop to see if it will do what I need. Since everybody but MS and Apple is going open source, it will benefit us all.
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