yes moving to Windows Vista as soon as openvpn works like XP.....
dam, are you really going to miss out on Directx 10 and the games????
Egghead
If you use an old PC then use an old OS - the OS that was designed for that level of hardware. New OSes are designed to accomodate features and abilities of modern hardware and future hardware. I don't see a problem.
I'm using Windows 7 - you got a problem with that?
Who is that directed at?Originally Posted by Curio
I didn't say it was a problem, i merely stated that driver support at the moment is limited, but of course this will be resolved with the official release. I accept that generally any new OS will have these issues.
Fortunately my system is way above the "recommended minimum".
As i said earlier i dual boot it with XP. I use Vista as my main OS but retain the XP option just incase there are any problems.
New OSes should also be able to accomodate older hardware as well. After all for an OS to be successful it should be installed on as many machines as possible.... To force a customer to upgrade their entire system to suit the OS seems more like Apple than Microsoft.
The problem lies in the millions of old computers that will go into the landfill because they won't run on Windows Vista. If you don't see a problem in that you need to take a visit to one of the "recycling centers" for PC material in China Pakistan, or India...
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well just got the 64bit vista from our works msdn. gonna install that probably tomorrow and see how much faster or more stable it is.
Oh well we can disagree then. Last time I looked no-one was being forced to run Vista.
I'm using Windows 7 - you got a problem with that?
Back to the topic. I just installed 5744, on the same PIII 1.0ghz machine with 512MB of ram, and the install went well. However it took forever.
The machine boots fine, sees all the hardware and works great. I will be testing it a bit more tonight but so far so good.
I'm with Rev on this one.....
again I am with the Rev.....Who is that directed at?
I didn't say it was a problem, i merely stated that driver support at the moment is limited, but of course this will be resolved with the official release. I accept that generally any new OS will have these issues.
Fortunately my system is way above the "recommended minimum".
As i said earlier i dual boot it with XP. I use Vista as my main OS but retain the XP option just incase there are any problems.
I have been testing various builds ogf Vista for the last 7 months and I do planto upgrade to it maybe by next July.
Last edited by Gary; October 16th, 2006 at 01:06 AM.
got openvpn working fine and love the OS.
only problem left is that I do not know how to add all my outlook messages and settings from the other hard drived to the new outlook in vista.
once i can do that i will no longer need to reboot to other hard drive to check my mail.
wow that is a jump... I think it is to force cheap people like myself to purchase better systems in order to use the internet. I mean if I am getting this all correctly, they won't be offering support in 2008 so a person like myself using a system that is unable to make the jump will effectively be shut out.
Last edited by bionicblond; October 21st, 2006 at 03:46 AM.
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Please people get over this forcing you to use Vista rubbish, nobody is forcing anybody to use Vista. If you have older hardware you can use a myriad of OSes which will operate just fine on it.
I'm using Windows 7 - you got a problem with that?
But then they'd have to find another dead horse to beat.
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