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Windows Vista and Office 07 delivered.

Postby ctjoyce » Sun Jan 21, 2007 3:05 pm

Thats right boys and girls. Last week we got our shipment of Vista Home basic, Home Professional, and Busness editions, Office 2007, and a crapload of Laptops with Vista preinstalled. We don't have Ultimate yet, but I'm guessing we will.

Here are a few teaser pics. More to come

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Intresting as everything is going DVD.

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Re: Windows Vista and Office 07 delivered.

Postby Jakemaster » Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:23 am

How much are vista and office 07 gonna sell for?

I saw Vista on a machine at Best Buy yesterday, and lets just say I was unimpressed.  To the average user such as myself, it seems like its only a facelift for XP.  Seriously, the only things that seemed different were the look of the menu bars and taskbar and a circle instead of a start button for the start menu.  
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Re: Windows Vista and Office 07 delivered.

Postby Woodlouse2002 » Mon Jan 22, 2007 2:38 pm

[quote]How much are vista and office 07 gonna sell for?

I saw Vista on a machine at Best Buy yesterday, and lets just say I was unimpressed.
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Re: Windows Vista and Office 07 delivered.

Postby ctjoyce » Mon Jan 22, 2007 2:50 pm

How much are vista and office 07 gonna sell for?


Depends on what you want. Home Basic is going for $200 retail, Home Profesional $250. Office '07 Student and Teacher $180.

I saw Vista on a machine at Best Buy yesterday, and lets just say I was unimpressed.  To the average user such as myself, it seems like its only a facelift for XP.  Seriously, the only things that seemed different were the look of the menu bars and taskbar and a circle instead of a start button for the start menu.  


You didn't really get to play with it then. You just surfed it. When you actually start useing Vista as your main OS you will find that many things such as Networking, and Administrative tasks have become much more streamlined.

Once you get into the nitty gritty its a very pleasing OS. As for woody's comment about DX10, thats only good for the GUI, not the Kernal.

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Re: Windows Vista and Office 07 delivered.

Postby ashaman » Mon Jan 22, 2007 4:14 pm

I saw Vista on a machine at Best Buy yesterday, and lets just say I was unimpressed.  To the average user such as myself, it seems like its only a facelift for XP.  Seriously, the only things that seemed different were the look of the menu bars and taskbar and a circle instead of a start button for the start menu.  


Oh, please. With vista you'll be able to do the very same things you did on XP with the same speed, only you'll need a PC at least 4 time faster and with 4 time the memory you used under XP.

Look the JUMP in hardware requests between Win2K and XP just to make your mind.

I used a Win2K on a PII 350 + 64Mb ram. And needed an at least 4 time bigger machine to make XP work similarly fast.

And in the end for what?

Do the same things.

Ah yes, DX10.

And if, just IF, I don't want to play?

Who cares. The market NEEDS your money. M$ NEEDS your money. The hardware princes NEED your money, so raise your hands up and fork, fork, fork.

This is a hold up... just under another name.


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Oh yes, I almost forgot. With vista you buy a lot of legalized malwares that remain there to watch you and tell the rest of the world they communicate with when and where you're taking a... toilet rest too.
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Re: Windows Vista and Office 07 delivered.

Postby Jakemaster » Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:08 pm

How much are vista and office 07 gonna sell for?


Depends on what you want. Home Basic is going for $200 retail, Home Profesional $250. Office '07 Student and Teacher $180.

I saw Vista on a machine at Best Buy yesterday, and lets just say I was unimpressed.  To the average user such as myself, it seems like its only a facelift for XP.  Seriously, the only things that seemed different were the look of the menu bars and taskbar and a circle instead of a start button for the start menu.  


You didn't really get to play with it then. You just surfed it. When you actually start useing Vista as your main OS you will find that many things such as Networking, and Administrative tasks have become much more streamlined.

Once you get into the nitty gritty its a very pleasing OS. As for woody's comment about DX10, thats only good for the GUI, not the Kernal.

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What all is improved in networking?  See, for me, the 'average' user, administrative stuff isn't important.  And as far aas networking goes, our network seems to work just fine on XP.

I don't have anything against vista, I just think that it will be a while before the average user should consider upgrading without getting a new PC.  It seems to me that vista is mostly hype except to businesses and private tech company owners (such as network administrators etc)
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Re: Windows Vista and Office 07 delivered.

Postby flymo » Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:17 pm

and to be fair XP was just a face lift to windows 2000! yet everyone bought it.
but having used vista several times it is nice. although it was the beta and i only used it for general use (gaming on XP OS and work/net browsing/other stuffs on vista) i found it to have better task management, the OS never just froz, if it came close vista is very good at sorting the problem out and getting you back yo your desktop.
if you havnt actualy used vista properly you cant realy criticise it, because you have to get into it properly as an OS to truely see its potential. i havnt had chance to network 2 computer useing vista to another vista machine, but when i was connecting to my home LAN it was quiker than XP to pick it up.

so dnt knock it til you have PROPERLY tried it
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Re: Windows Vista and Office 07 delivered.

Postby ctjoyce » Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:56 pm

Vista is out on the Egg.

My copy is in the mail...was time to move from XP anyway.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6832116213

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Re: Windows Vista and Office 07 delivered.

Postby flymo » Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:30 am

Vista is out on the Egg.

My copy is in the mail...was time to move from XP anyway.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6832116213

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im gonna wait a while, just let some bugs get ironed out, and for my bank balance to get big enough....... ::)
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Re: Windows Vista and Office 07 delivered.

Postby Woodlouse2002 » Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:21 am

Vista is out on the Egg.

My copy is in the mail...was time to move from XP anyway.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6832116213

Cheers
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im gonna wait a while, just let some bugs get ironed out, and for my bank balance to get big enough....... ::)

Us normal folk rely in nuts like Cameron to buy the first version of things like that. Then he can suffer all the problems there are, wait days for the upgrades etc, while those who wait will have a trouble free existance.


Probably... ;D



So is DX10 out yet?
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Re: Windows Vista and Office 07 delivered.

Postby Gunny04 » Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:46 pm

That link is for a 32 bit version, no 64 bit versions yet? or did they scrap that idea?  ;D

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Re: Windows Vista and Office 07 delivered.

Postby ctjoyce » Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:54 pm

No they did both, I just gave the link for the 32bit, because thats what I found first.

As for all the bugs etc, I've been beta testing for quite a while, so I am well aware of the problems that are most present, and know how to avoide or fix them.

We also just put out our Vista laptops today. People have been flocking to them like candy.

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Re: Windows Vista and Office 07 delivered.

Postby Gunny04 » Wed Jan 24, 2007 12:19 pm

Yea I found a 64 bit version on newegg.... 349 USD!?

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Re: Windows Vista and Office 07 delivered.

Postby freedomhays » Wed Jan 24, 2007 12:44 pm

Microsoft Windows Vista 64-Bit Home Premium 3 Pack DVD - OEM

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Re: Windows Vista and Office 07 delivered.

Postby Gunny04 » Wed Jan 24, 2007 3:02 pm

Hmmm oops I messed up  ;D

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