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Abby3563663

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    I'm a crazy Mac person, but I don't draw the parallels between OS X and Vista nearly as much as everyone else seems to. o_o; They're not that alike. I guess you can only realize that if you really understand the underpinnings of both? Anyways, yes, it's an improvement over XP in subtle ways. There are a lot of features and small changes that will make your life a lot easier if you're on the computer a lot. If you don't really use your computer every day or whatever, probably not then. oo; Regardless, if you do get it, make sure you get at least Home Premium. Home Basic is worse than Windows ME.
     

    Ayano Katagiri

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    Abby said:
    I'm a crazy Mac person, but I don't draw the parallels between OS X and Vista nearly as much as everyone else seems to. o_o; They're not that alike. I guess you can only realize that if you really understand the underpinnings of both? Anyways, yes, it's an improvement over XP in subtle ways. There are a lot of features and small changes that will make your life a lot easier if you're on the computer a lot. If you don't really use your computer every day or whatever, probably not then. oo; Regardless, if you do get it, make sure you get at least Home Premium. Home Basic is worse than Windows ME.
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    Yeah, but my friend really hates Microsoft and keeps saying that Vista is just copying off X. Meh.. I dont mind too much but its interesting how he said that.

    Btw, *curious* has Vista had any major viruses or bugs yet??
     

    Ayano Katagiri

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    Hiroshi Sotomura said:
    You'd have to consider that a modern operating system will have to utilise these appearances - also consider that Windows Aero is one part, and a lot of modern operating systems would have such an interface. So like Abby, I can't find anything that makes them too similar.
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    Oh okay, I get what you mean.

    I like Vista's glassy-ish look and the time-machine thing.
     

    Ayano Katagiri

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    Cartmic said:
    Time machine thing? Dont you mean the Symantec Goback rip off thing? :P
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    I dont know... I cant remember properly right now but I think it was the open windows going backwards in a long line or something like that if you can understand what I'm talking about XD
     

    Haruka

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    I like upgraded to Vista Home Premium. Everything works except Startup Disk (Bootcamp) and sound doesn't work. ;-;

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    Abby3563663

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    !!**Alex**!! said:
    Yeah, but my friend really hates Microsoft and keeps saying that Vista is just copying off X. Meh.. I dont mind too much but its interesting how he said that.

    Btw, *curious* has Vista had any major viruses or bugs yet??
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    There was a major Patch Tuesday recently that featured twelve patches to fix twenty vulnerabilities. Vista was subject to some of them, but they were all shared with XP. So no Vista-specific vulnerabilities have been discovered yet.

    Haruka said:
    I like upgraded to Vista Home Premium. Everything works except Startup Disk (Bootcamp) and sound doesn't work. ;-;

    https://img129.imageshack.us/my.php?image=performanceeh6.jpg
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    You're using Vista under Parallels or through Boot Camp, Alyssa? Boot Camp would be difficult, since I don't think it includes Vista drivers for the Mac hardware yet. Hence your lack of sound. o.o;
     

    Haruka

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    I got sound working again... yay....

    I'm using bootcamp because Microsoft doesn't allow users to install Home Premium on Virtual Machines. =p

    and Aero Glass doesn't work in parallels.
     

    Abby3563663

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    And what, you're trying to remain legal here? Apparently, while there is a legal restriction on its usage, there's no actual software restriction.
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    And it's for a dumb reason, too. Virtualization is too "pro" for anyone who doesn't buy Ultimate. Just go for it. I call Microsoft and reactivate the same XP for tons of machines. XD;
     

    Abby3563663

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    I'm pretty sure VMs are only allowed under Ultimate. With the latest Parallels, however, it's possible to boot a VM from an already existing Boot Camp partition, which is kind of a way around the EULA, if it really bothers you. oo;
     

    Haruka

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    Abby said:
    I'm pretty sure VMs are only allowed under Ultimate. With the latest Parallels, however, it's possible to boot a VM from an already existing Boot Camp partition, which is kind of a way around the EULA, if it really bothers you. oo;
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    Parallels Bootcamp Vista VM doesn't work in Vista yet. =p

    and I like can't get Startup Disk working, because it's like not supported in Vista, but I got backlit keyboard working. Yay!!!

    Vista
     

    Ichigo Roza Mystica

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    well i dont remember who mentioned it, but you can get the windows driver kit for free from the ms site. um, anyway, i dunno if you'd need to do it in cpp or dotnet or whatever the hell it is ms uses for drivers nowdays, but i guess you can try. anyway, i like vista. its pretty, and i'm shallow, so we make a good pair. woot.
     

    Ichigo Roza Mystica

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    well technically apple hardware drivers for windows as used in bootcamp are just standard drivers, like for video and sound and stuff. so theres no reason you couldn't use wdk to develop drivers for a boot camp install of vista. but someone else also mentioned there not being any wddm drivers for their intel chipset and that would also be possible to do i guess. i dunno, tho
     
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