Ok Vista beta testers-question ?

[Curio]

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.

[Reverend]

New OSes are designed to accomodate features and abilities of modern hardware and future hardware. I don't see a problem.

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.

[PIPER]

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.

again I am with the Rev.....

[Big Booger]

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.

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...

http://www.greenpeace.org/internatio...y-contaminates

[Curio]

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...

http://www.greenpeace.org/internatio...y-contaminates

Oh well we can disagree then. Last time I looked no-one was being forced to run Vista.