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Vista public BETA released
H_TeXMeX_H:
You're right not to trust Vi$ta.
Actually, Linux does have decent wireless support with madwifi and ndiswrapper
I recommend madwifi if it supports your card ... if not then ndiswrapper will work ...
--- Quote --- With ndiswrapper, virtually every miniPCI (builtin), PCI, PCMCIA (Cardbus only) or USB wireless network card works in Linux.
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cymon:
I was rather impressed with Office 2k7 Beta. The color scheme sucks, but the user interface is pretty damned good.
emuelle1:
The UI was nice, but it sucked up so much of my system I couldn't get anything else done.
I'll have to check in to madwifi. I got ndiswrapper to recognize my card, but for some reason my system would not see wlan0.
toadlife:
I must say it's pretty slick. UAC works very well. It makes running as an administrator much safer and running as a limited user much easier. Also In domain enviroments it seems to have shed an annoying bug from XP where software deployment policies would take two reboots to take effect.
The machines I've ran it on are my dual core beast at home and my desktop PC at work. I don't think the system requirements are really that bad. Even on my machine at work, it runs very smootly and it's only a $1000.00 machine. Any middle of the road computer bought right now should be able to run Vista just fine when it gets released.
One thing I noticed is that Windows update will no longer work through the web browser. There is a control panel applet called "Windows Update" in which you do all of your updating tasks. If you try to go to update.microsoft.com, it will tell you to go to the control panel to do your updates.
Aloone_Jonez:
But isn't that stupid?
Surly they should make it so it runs on hardware at least two years old? Personally I'd like them set the minimum requirements for a typical five year old machine.
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