I name thee, Windows Vista
Connected Clear Confident
Friday, July 22, 2005 by Frogboy | Discussion: Windows Vista
The advertising tagline for Vista is "Clear, Confident, Connected: Bringing clarity to your world," according to a video of the announcement posted by Microsoft.
The company also said Friday that the first beta, or test release, of Vista is slated for release on Aug. 3. That release will be targeted at developers and IT professionals, said Brad Goldberg, general manager of Windows product development.
The Vista moniker breaks with the company's tradition of using version numbers or acronyms for new Windows releases. The current version of the operating system, Windows XP--short for "experience," according to Microsoft--debuted in October 2001.
Vista's three design goals include better security, new ways to organize information, and seamless connectivity to external devices, the company said. Microsoft will provide more detail on Vista features Aug. 3, Goldberg said.
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Reply #4 Friday, July 22, 2005 12:30 PM
Reply #5 Friday, July 22, 2005 12:45 PM
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Reply #6 Friday, July 22, 2005 1:18 PM
I mean, when did 2000 come out? (Checked, the launch party was Feb 2000) Then XP comes out when? (Checked NY speech by Gates for launch: Oct 2001) They might have better luck with Vista since most businesses never upgraded to XP. It also shows that they could have just skipped XP and waited until they could offer us a significant upgrade.
Reply #7 Friday, July 22, 2005 2:51 PM
| It also shows that they could have just skipped XP and waited until they could offer us a significant upgrade. |
I was on windows ME before XP. I am a pretty happy customer wih XP. As long as the upgrades are better I don't care how often they come out. Xp has been good to me. Any problems I have had with XP have been my fault, Norton AV, or minor isssues with windows update. The OS has been solid. With the help of Stardock I was able to get rid of that stupid green Start button.
Reply #8 Friday, July 22, 2005 3:19 PM
I always swore I wasn't going to switch to XP, but I lied. Adobe Encore requires it, and once you open that package the software pimps in my neck of the woods won't take the stuff back. SO, it was an upgrade to XP or a nice $300 doorstop. That'll teach me to notice the OS section of the 'minumum requirements'.
I think it is telling, though, that using a wide array of new games and software, I got within a year and a half of XP's successor without needing to upgrade to XP.
Reply #9 Friday, July 22, 2005 3:23 PM
Reply #10 Friday, July 22, 2005 4:24 PM
| went from 98SE to 2000, so, oddly enough, I didn't see the point in upgrading to XP less than a year after I got 2000. |
2k was a vast improvement over everything before, but for the home, XP sure was nicer than 2k! Vista is going to have to be come kind of great to wean me from XP.
Reply #11 Friday, July 22, 2005 5:28 PM
I think to go along with the new name they also need new ways to sell it. Some way to ease the transition better. I hate to say it, but a forced tour of the operating system, showing a few examples of the "old" way and the "new" way.
I suspect more that we will now start seeing Vista wallpapers rather than skins for the short term. At least until there is a specific Vista related theme shown.
Reply #12 Friday, July 22, 2005 5:36 PM
| I suspect more that we will now start seeing Vista wallpapers rather than skins for the short term. At least until there is a specific Vista related theme shown. |
I dunno, with the piddly difference in 'look' that came from XP, we had a deluge of skins in the weeks after the beta was released. If the UI is much different, I think we can expect as least as many "Vista" or "Avalon" skins.
Reply #13 Friday, July 22, 2005 9:18 PM
Reply #14 Sunday, July 24, 2005 3:10 AM
| "By naming the next version of Windows "Vista," Microsoft may have stepped on the toes of another software company just down the road in Redmond.
That would be Vista, a business software and services company founded in 1999 by John Wall." |
You'd think as predatory as Microsoft is over their trademarks they would have thought twice about using a trademark from another tech company. This might bleed over into your piracy discussion, re: the company with the deepest pockets...
Reply #16 Monday, July 25, 2005 3:59 PM
| Windows 95 is an improvement over ME |
How can 95 be an improvment over me when 95 was released in 1995 and me was released after this, so how can they improve it when it was already around?
Reply #17 Monday, July 25, 2005 4:16 PM
| How can 95 be an improvment over me when 95 was released in 1995 and me was released after this, so how can they improve it when it was already around? |
Because people say ME was a really bad OS all around and in essence 95 worked better. I never had any issues with ME.
Reply #18 Monday, July 25, 2005 7:24 PM
| Windows 95 is an improvement over ME |
It ain't hard....anything is better than ME....
Oh, and 'ME' stands for....lobotoME [in a phonetic sense]...
Reply #19 Monday, July 25, 2005 7:29 PM
| Because people say ME was a really bad OS all around and in essence 95 worked better. I never had any issues with ME. |
That's one.
Reply #20 Tuesday, July 26, 2005 12:22 AM
Believe it or not it is a 433mhz sys with 256meg ram. Took a bit of tweaking (eMachine) but 200 has been good on it the last couple of years.....
The other I started with XP.. went to 2000 and then back to XP. XP seemed a bit more stable for my vb development.....
as for ME... yow! should have skipped it. Bled like a stuck pig and never was really stable...
Either way, having played with a few of the LH 4x and 5x out there, I am one who is looking forward to Vista....
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Reply #1 Friday, July 22, 2005 12:02 PM