Cueil on 18 February 2009
| Impulsivity said: I made the mistake of giving MS money for Vista once, buying an OEM copy of Ultimate, and will never, ever make that mistake again. This endless crap where they provide the worst possible version of the OS with horrid functionality and stupid limits then ask for 200 dollars to get the "full" version of the OS after you already have all your stuff on the PC is just insane. Why should Home Basic limit you to just a few GBs of RAM and less processors then your computer has? Why should you not be able to secure your information with something like bitlocker unless you buy the 300+ dollar version of the OS? Why should the OS be the most expensive part of your computer even if you are making a high end machine (retail i7 processor 300 dollars, retail 285 high end NVIDIA card, 300 dollars, High end intel motherboard? 300 dollars, Vista Ultimate? Almost 400 bucks!)? Some have derided the OSX model which is basically you pay 99 bucks every few years for the new version (which is always the full featured version, the equivalent to ultimate) and you can install it with no activation, no genuine checks none of that. Not only that but with one retail version you can install on 5 macs with no problem (if you just split it with 5 other mac users thats 20 bucks per upgrade) and they don't harass you or make you call a number and get a code if you try to reinstall the OS. It's just so seamless and easy I don't know how in the world so many can defend the alternative. As a bonus the iwork suite with almost all the functions of Office (including Keynote which is VASTLY superior to powerpoint) costs 49 bucks vs what? 500+ bucks for Office? Microsoft is greedy and enforces their standards through pointless gimmicks (like the nearly free but useless basic versions of their OS to bilk money out later) and inferior proprietary standards they force on partners like .net (an inferior Java) and direct X (an inferior open GL). This starter edition on the PC you buy seems to be about the same as a mob guy coming to your store and saying "wow all your stuff here sure looks nice, I'm sure you'd like to keep it that way for 200 bucks." As a final thing for all those saying Windows 7 is the second coming it IS vista. It is virtually identical in every way, it is Vista SP 2 with a different name. It ripped off the OSX dock, installs a little faster and doesn't include those crappy Microsoft ilife like programs but other then that its the same OS. Same control panel, same underpinnings, same drivers, same everything. It is 96% the same OS just like from XP SP1 to XP SP2 only 4% changed. The difference is they're going to AGAIN ask for 400 dollars to upgrade Vista SP1 ultimate to "Windows 7" also known as SP2. It should be offered free to those idiots who bought Vista like me, or at the very least for a cheap upgrade price (say 99 dollars for 5 machines). |
Are you retarded? Windows 7 is an entirely new Kernal. Just because the front end resembles Vista doesn't make it Vista... just like my Firefox looks just like my IE 8.0 doesn't make it IE. And calling Direct X inferior to the defunct OpenGL is insane. If it wasn't for Direct X you'd still be manually installing every f'n driver like you were using NT 4.0. As for the RAM limit... I seriouslly doubt anyone who goes out an buys a PC with Vista Home is going to have more than 4 gigs of ram. As and end note... Vista Ultimate was for enthusiest who wanted all the benefits of Home Professional and the Enterprise version in one... you don't need all the stuff unless you work at home and use your system for entertainment to.
