Vista Beta Preview
RTA Information Technology, Tempe, Arizona
I saw a first-person demo of Vista the other day.
One of the obvious gotcha's is that the high-end graphics version of Vista will require a 256MB graphics card. There aren't that many 256MB cards around. You can't even BUY 256MB versions of some fairly recent, higher-end cards, like the popular Nvida 6600GT.
The scaling graphics in the folder views is cool. But they've been doing that in Linux shells for years. DESQview-X, ca. 1993, had scaled graphics in windows.
It's too bad that MS didn't get the new WinFS file system ready in time. Some ar speculating that WinFS for Vista will be released in the first Service Pack. Whenever that will be.
It's unclear (even to Microsoft, apparently) exactly how many versions of Vista will exist. There will be at least two home versions, a business version, a multi-media version, and who knows what other versions. Not to mention both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Plus the new Longhorn Server.
I DO have a Beta copy of Vista (I'm not sure which version it is), but I haven't gotten around to installing it anywhere. I may put in Virtual PC 2004, but I understand there are some work-arounds necessary to do that successfully.
I saw a first-person demo of Vista the other day.
One of the obvious gotcha's is that the high-end graphics version of Vista will require a 256MB graphics card. There aren't that many 256MB cards around. You can't even BUY 256MB versions of some fairly recent, higher-end cards, like the popular Nvida 6600GT.
The scaling graphics in the folder views is cool. But they've been doing that in Linux shells for years. DESQview-X, ca. 1993, had scaled graphics in windows.
It's too bad that MS didn't get the new WinFS file system ready in time. Some ar speculating that WinFS for Vista will be released in the first Service Pack. Whenever that will be.
It's unclear (even to Microsoft, apparently) exactly how many versions of Vista will exist. There will be at least two home versions, a business version, a multi-media version, and who knows what other versions. Not to mention both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Plus the new Longhorn Server.
I DO have a Beta copy of Vista (I'm not sure which version it is), but I haven't gotten around to installing it anywhere. I may put in Virtual PC 2004, but I understand there are some work-arounds necessary to do that successfully.
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