Anybody running MS Vista on their laptop?

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Jul 16, 2007 | 06:02 PM

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cherryBox

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I've had it running since october on my lappy.

It's decent, I think, for the average user. I'm a developer/programmer, and a lot of my applications were not compatible. I had to open the hood on a lot of things and f with a lot of config files to get everything running. I still can't connect coldfusion to a local access db, but i don't really care too much.

Jul 16, 2007 | 06:34 PM

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mtxblau

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Originally Posted by mtxblau

In a year or two, it'll be a lot better once they get the kinks out. They have real competition now - nothing improves quality better than competition.

Why pay for testing and development when you can have the public do it for you at no cost!

god...bill gates is my idol.

I'm not a Windows person (running xfce4 on debian) but I can understand the issue - XP was five years old by the time Vista came out - MS was probably feeling the heat on the back of their necks.

It's not open source, so (like Apple) they can only squash as many bugs as they find in house. It'd be pretty neat if there was a CVS/SVN for the next Windows... though the investors would probably riot.

But in seriousness, the best thing to happen to Apple was the XNU kernel. Where were they before OS X? Bugfixes that happen in KHTML go right into Safari and vice versa. Windows has a huge developer base that would do wonders for Windows, if they'd consider open source (see LiteStep, for instance). Apple is closed source but they have a bunch of different communities fixing problems for them - less work on their part.