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WereKitten said:
heruamon said:
WereKitten said:
How is this better than running XP and its applications inside one of the many third party virtualization tools?

How is it not?

Sorry, but I still don't understand. You could use virtualization in Vista too, and no details were given on how this "new" solution would be any better. So how is this "huge"?

If it matters, I have no idea what you're talking about. But I do understand that Windows 7 will have an easy way for me to install KotOR2!



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I don't understand the Vista hate. I've been running home premium for 2 weeks now and no problems.



what I want to know is, how much will Windows 7 cost?





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I still haven't seen or heard of any reason why anyone should jump the XP ship at all. So far Vista was more bloated, DRM riddled and flashier. Why is 7 any better?

The benifit of XP was that it's kernel was more solid than Win 95/98 since it was using it's base from NT not 3.x. Win XP is relativly LEAN_AND_MEAN. It has everything I want without anything inbetween. So what does Vista and now Seven offer that XP doesn't provide for my needs.

Oh and I did catch on to the joke that Vista was faster. because it requried superior hardware than XP.

I'm pretty much with WereKitten on this. So far MS want's people to upgrade for the sake of upgrading for income.



Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.

XP does have certain weaknesses against viruses as compared to vista. Vista is stronger but bloated.. Win 7 looks interesting but I'd love to see it running fast on a netbook. Ubuntu 9 has really impressive reviews, and the mac netbook will be out in a few months.. the low-mid end hardware OS market competition is about to get very very very interesting.



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Very exciting



Khuutra said:
WereKitten said:

Sorry, but I still don't understand. You could use virtualization in Vista too, and no details were given on how this "new" solution would be any better. So how is this "huge"?

If it matters, I have no idea what you're talking about. But I do understand that Windows 7 will have an easy way for me to install KotOR2!

I hope so. That would be handy for me, too.

Note that you'll need at least the "Professional" edition, not the Home one - or whatever they'll call it - and we don't know yet if the applications running in this mode will have access to GPU hardware acceleration.

 



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WarmachineX said:
what I want to know is, how much will Windows 7 cost?

Shouldn't be anymore then any other new windows product has been at launch, over the past 10 years...between $90 to $300 bucks, based on your needs.

 



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Windows 7: $ 90 - 300
Computer compatible: $ 300 up
Windows XP integrated into Windows 7: PRICELESS

Now that's one intelligent decision from Microsoft, i applaud them for that, a lot of my work will have an easy transition with this...

Congrats Microsoft!



Windows 7 looks very promising indeed.



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