Sounds like installing Vista is a piece of cake

[Patrick]

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2092974,00.asp
http://www.break.com/index/how_to_prope ... vista.html

I really don't have much sympathy for these people. Hopefully they see the light. Please tell me how that crap is easier than installing Linux in under 30 minutes?

[Wally Balljacker]

Sadly, most Vista users won't ever install it. It doesn't matter how easy or difficult it is, by years end 20 million people will get this crap pre-installed on their shiny new computers.

[tom_mc]

hehehee Oh that 2nd video is awesome. That is the perfect machine to install ANY Windows product on!

http://www.break.com/index/how_to_prope ... vista.html

thanks for the laugh Pat.
tom_mc

[snarkout]

I don't even understand the first one - I saw it linked on osnews yesterday. "I took my old POS and loaded an OS *known* to have heavy requirements on it, and I had problems!" Um...yeah. I don't really get that rationale, I guess.

On the other hand, I suppose he was trying to show what it might be like for someone who has no clue and wants to upgrade. I agree with Wally - the people will certainly exist, but will be in the minority. Heavily. Especially considering x86 boxshifters sell the minimum requirements for an OS at the time of its release, so *most* people are running XP SP1 hardware at this point.

At the end of the day, I agree. I don't have much sympathy. I can't think of a single non-techie relative/friend I have who still runs windows, though, so this will probably not affect me in any case.

[jsusanka]

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2092974,00.asp
http://www.break.com/index/how_to_prope ... vista.html

I really don't have much sympathy for these people. Hopefully they see the light. Please tell me how that crap is easier than installing Linux in under 30 minutes?

man the video was hilarious - thanks for the link.

I love some of the comments on the eweek article. so the "windows admin pros" are telling people the same thing of what to do that they criticized linux for.

can't imagine trying to install vista at all - what is even worse is vista servers. now that is a real scary thought.

I think they rushed vista out for their stockholders and board of directors. it was no way ready. I saw vista on a computer the other day at sam's club - don't really know what they did with those five years but it looks like they just enhanced the windows xp gui. but of course they had to get in the drm for all the content producers. the gui actually looks like linux in my book.

[allix]

can't imagine trying to install vista at all - what is even worse is vista servers. now that is a real scary thought..

I thought there is going to be windows server Windows Server "Longhorn" a less they call it windows server "vista" when it comes out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Se ... onghorn%22

I think they rushed vista out for their stockholders and board of directors. it was no way ready. I saw vista on a computer the other day at sam's club - don't really know what they did with those five years but it looks like they just enhanced the windows xp gui. but of course they had to get in the drm for all the content producers. the gui actually looks like linux in my book.

sure its a stock market OS , how can hackers work for them? apart from money...

the gui looks nothing like anything on linux, that i have seen including, xgl,beryl,looking glass (ok, there is some similarity to this in the way you can see the tabs in 3d), and Croquet.
The ability to see video when minimalised and when tabbing is something ive not seen on linux.

[jsusanka]

can't imagine trying to install vista at all - what is even worse is vista servers. now that is a real scary thought..

I thought there is going to be windows server Windows Server "Longhorn" a less they call it windows server "vista" when it comes out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Se ... onghorn%22

I think they rushed vista out for their stockholders and board of directors. it was no way ready. I saw vista on a computer the other day at sam's club - don't really know what they did with those five years but it looks like they just enhanced the windows xp gui. but of course they had to get in the drm for all the content producers. the gui actually looks like linux in my book.

sure its a stock market OS , how can hackers work for them? apart from money...

the gui looks nothing like anything on linux, that i have seen including, xgl,beryl,looking glass (ok, there is some similarity to this in the way you can see the tabs in 3d), and Croquet.
The ability to see video when minimalised and when tabbing is something ive not seen on linux.

not sure what you mean see video when minimalized or tabbing -
I believe that is possible with the nvidia drivers and aiglx on beryl