What are your impressions of the Vista Beta 2?
 

I can't resist a freebie. Anyone tried it yet?

I put it on my wife's computer last night. It took 8 hours to install. So far she likes it, probably because it is pretty. It is a resource hog though. Her system is a typical 2.8GHz P4 system and it is (IMO) very sluggish. A lot of the stuff has been renamed or moved so I have no idea where to find stuff. I don't use Windows much anyways so I had similar troubles in XP.

But, everything works and she's happy.

Note to George:

I did an upgrade install.

Before, in XP, I saw that Prime95 icon in my tray. The process was owned by me. It was not a service version, just the regular install. (I understand it ran as a service though.)

After, in Vista, I do not see the icon. Running Prime95 manually does not show the icon. The process is owned by the system in task manager.

It works but the behavior may confuse some people. (I'm confused!)

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[QUOTE=Xyzzy]But, everything works and she's happy.[/QUOTE]
...But you wasted 8 hours installing an OS that sounds like it will make her less happy than the previous version. Speaking only for myself, 8 hours is much too big a chunk of time to spend helping Microsoft perpuate their monopoly, for no pay.

The reason my wife and I have been married for so long is we are totally and exactly opposite. We agree on nothing. We argue constantly. Yet we are happily married. I figure it has to be my good looks.

Anyways, she uses Windows. It kills me. I had her use Linux for a year, and everything worked properly, but she was not happy. She views the computer like a toaster. She likes what she likes and nothing will change that.

Vista is real pretty. She likes pretty. All that eye candy makes me want to vomit. (I spend 90% of my time at a console prompt. I don't even have X installed on my Thinkpad.)

You know when people send HTML email, usually consisting of dumb jokes or urban legends, full of dumb looking avatars and cutsie pictures? Forwarded multiple times so the email is a mile long?

She loves that stuff. Vista is perfect for her I guess.

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[QUOTE=Xyzzy]I figure it has to be my good looks.[/QUOTE]

I just looked at your avatar and wondered... :lol:

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[QUOTE=Mystwalker]I just looked at your avatar and wondered... :lol:[/QUOTE]:
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I have seen photos of xyzzy in some publication or the other and showed my wife. We both agreed that he is a good looking fella, and young but mature too.
Mally :coffee:

[QUOTE=Xyzzy]Anyways, she uses Windows. It kills me. I had her use Linux for a year, and everything worked properly, but she was not happy. She views the computer like a toaster. She likes what she likes and nothing will change that.[/QUOTE]
Ah, I somehow got nthe impression that she'd been using WinXp or something similar. Don't get me wrong - I use Windows for most of my day-to-day work, although I try to avoid MS-only file formats (especially when communicating with others) like the plague, use Firefox and Thunderbird for my web and e-mail, and generally focus on content over form in my work. (HTML-enabled e-mail is not just a Microsoft thing, BTW.) I just don't see anything in Vista that I really need, and so far it sounds like another product MS is trying to force down the consumer's throat, with more "features" you didn't really want, lots more bugs you definitely don't need, and which is so resource-greedy that it essentially forces you to buy a new computer just so you can run it and not go completely bonkers waiting for it to complete even the most trivial tasks. (I suspect the latter may be a big selling point as far as the chip and PC makers are concerned, though - the usual unholy alliance at work there.)

[quote=mfgoode]I have seen photos of xyzzy in some publication or the other and showed my wife. We both agreed that he is a good looking fella, and young but mature too.[/quote]
[URL="http://www.teamprimerib.com/jpg/wedding.jpg"]http://www.teamprimerib.com/jpg/wedding.jpg[/URL]

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[QUOTE=Xyzzy][URL="http://www.teamprimerib.com/jpg/wedding.jpg"]http://www.teamprimerib.com/jpg/wedding.jpg[/URL][/QUOTE]
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Hey xyzzy thats definitely not you fella!

A comment on the picture. The wife is a two ton tony. I would never advocate a female superior position for the poor guy as he would be flattened out.

The guy ? well his eyes are drooping and his mouth begging for more of it, which he will never get from her. :grin:
The remedy? Change partners and let her do the cooking! :cool:

Mally :coffee:

P.S. Hey xyyzy, I just took another look at the snap and it could be you after all, as the face is familiar. If so then NO OFFENCE MEANT.
Mally

Vista
 

[QUOTE=ewmayer]Ah, I somehow got nthe impression that she'd been using

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(I suspect the latter may be a big selling point as far as the chip and PC makers are concerned, though - the usual unholy alliance at work there.)[/QUOTE]

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Hi. Ernst,
Here's advice recd. from my son - an IT professional in London.

"Dad, I wouldn’t advise it just yet. It’s still in Beta-testing phase, which means bugs aplenty, and headaches & frustration if you’re not at least a qualified PC techie.

We have a saying here, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. A very common-folk attitude, in common-folk slang, but the wisdom behind it can’t be denied."

Mally :coffee: