Anybody want to try Windows Vista pre-RC1? - Page 2

LeMansX5 · #11 08-31-2006, 09:57 AM

Have used it. Vista looks a copy of Apple's OS.

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xx3 · #12 08-31-2006, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by LeMansX5

Have used it. Vista looks a copy of Apple's OS.

Well, you weren't expecting them to actually innovate, where you?

SANguru · #13 08-31-2006, 02:38 PM

yup.. beta on one of my instances of VMWare ESX server here. It's buggy still...

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Are you using the new Office? Hard to find the commands at first, but I like it.

Thunder22 · #14 08-31-2006, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by xx3

Well, you weren't expecting them to actually innovate, where you?

They both just ripped off Xerox, so the history of stealing from others was already set...

The Cleaner · #15 08-31-2006, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by gresch

They both just ripped off Xerox, so the history of stealing from others was already set...

Apple purchased the GUI from Xerox, and that was the template for the "Lisa" a complete flop I might add, but that was the beginning.

Steve LEADER !

Thunder22 · #16 08-31-2006, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by The Cleaner

Apple purchased the GUI from Xerox, and that was the template for the "Lisa" a complete flop I might add, but that was the beginning.

Steve LEADER !

Purchased only after he got caught infringing on their intellectual property that Wang never properly copyrighted.... hmmmm, sound like microsoft a bit?

JonK · #17 08-31-2006, 06:06 PM

Why?
Anyone here runs 64bit apps essential for your business, or bragging rights perhaps?
I personally will not subjugate myself as a MS' Guinea Pig (AKA biatch) while they are getting their bugs fixed and have legit reason to upgrade it. If I have taken a job being an application developer different story.

I am not being a party pooper but just curious.

SANguru · #18 08-31-2006, 06:28 PM

LOL.. I guess you will NEVER be buying any MS stuff..

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Originally Posted by JonK

Why?
Anyone here runs 64bit apps essential for your business, or bragging rights perhaps?
I personally will not subjugate myself as a MS' Guinea Pig (AKA biatch) while they are getting their bugs fixed and have legit reason to upgrade it. If I have taken a job being an application developer different story.

I am not being a party pooper but just curious.

xx3 · #19 08-31-2006, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by gresch

They both just ripped off Xerox, so the history of stealing from others was already set...

You obviously havn't used Vista. Aero? Gadgets? Many new vista features are carbon copy's of Mac OS 10...

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Originally Posted by thecleaner

Apple purchased the GUI from Xerox, and that was the template for the "Lisa" a complete flop I might add, but that was the beginning.

Steve LEADER !

Apple never purchased the GUI from Xerox. Steve and others were invited to Xerox PARC and witnessed the first GUI. What happened from then on is history.

I don't necessarily agree that Lisa was a flop. Because it was priced at around $10,000, few consumers could afford it - which never made it quite the consumer success that Apple had hoped for...

The Cleaner · #20 08-31-2006, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by gresch

Purchased only after he got caught infringing on their intellectual property that Wang never properly copyrighted.... hmmmm, sound like microsoft a bit?

Didn't Bill do the same thing when he "purchased" DOS? As I recall he scammed some poor guy out of the OS for a few thousand bucks, Hooked IBM up with the it, then proceeded to make a new version MSDOS and backwards engineer the BIOS and made a couple-a-hundred billion.

Those were some interesting times, I never owned a PC, I am a Apple guy. but I think the Computer industry would not be as interesting if it was not for the personalities of Bill and Steve.

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