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Upgrading from Vista to XP; a review:
Brandon Staggs "[bstaggs]{AT}[swordsearcher]{DOT}[com]" borland public delphi non-technical "Bob S" wrote on 16 Feb 2006 07:08:10 -0700: If things can be made legal by the time Vista is released, my next PC will be run on a Mac. whatcha think! I think it's crazy to buy overpriced hardware by Apple to run Windows.

vista on linux!!
Skip I'll have a 7-UP too......after the truck contest. -Burt -- "Only an innocent two dollar bet you say? Well, it's just as innocent as the germs in an epidemic. Spreading the worst kind of disease, the civic disease of criminals with an eight-billion dollar racket. Corrupting politicians. Buying protection.

Windows Vista Speech Recognition with digital voice recorders
Brian Moelk bmo...@NObrainSPAMendeavorHERE.com borland public delphi non-technical Not big enough a leap to overtake Windows. Vista is coming and the WPF (Avalon) is deemed to be superior to OSX's user interface. Again, superiority is subjective, but from what I've seen of WPF it looks good.

Windows Vista Contest - Win Windows Vista DVDs
Jonathan Neve[Microtec] jonat...@microtec.fr borland public delphi non-technical Bob S wrote: The Contest - Windows XP on an Intel Mac, $11908 so far... http://windowsxp.onmac.net/The%20Contest.html The reward: $11908 2006/02/15 06:54 CST If things can be made legal by the time Vista is released, my next PC will be

Windows Vista
No contest. Things have changed in 16 years. Macs have pretty looking UIs, but that's about it. I find the menu at the top edge of the monitor (instead of on Vista also has a pretty UI, but if I get a Vista PC, I'll probably disable most of "Aero" and set up the UI to look like Windows 2000 (just like I've done

Contest winner: Vista more secure than Mac OS
The Virginia QSO Party, the 10-10 International Mobile Contest, the BARTG Spring RTTY Contest, the SARL VHF/UHF Contest, the Russian DX Contest, the AGCW VHF/UHF Contest, the CLARA and Family The Amateur Radio session will be Tuesday, April 6, at the Wyndham Palace Resort and Spa in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

Comp Lit Bookshop Tenth Anniversary Seminars and events
It's not even close to being a contest. Microsoft will create custom benchmarks intended to show some version of Windows as superior to some version of Windows, real and valid improvements to Windows 2000, Windows 2003, and Windows XP, and soon Windows Vista, and completely ignore similar improvements in Linux.

Installation Face Off: Linux or Windows
Family Safety Settings in Windows snip Many of us won't care about FSS, as we don't have kids at home, or we keep better control of them. I'm much more interested in And if Vista does not play a CD due to some copy protection, will Microsoft be happy to front up to the Disputes Tribunal to explain why not?

Computer World on the Hidden Costs of Windows Vista
But my favorite Windows Vista behavior--and believe you me, this was a tough contest--has to be the weird COM object errors I get while cutting and pasting between Paint and Word 2007. (And yes, frankly, this could be an Office 2007 bug. But let's face it, Office 2007 and Vista are "Better Together" as Microsoft

Bill Gates signed Windows Vista copy for FREE !
In the first place, I have not been comparing Vista with any other OS. I have been simply stating facts. YOU turned it into some kind of contest. Time, shmime. Who gives a crap about the So the difference between Windows Vista and XP is much like the difference between Mac OS 9 and OS X. It's not even close.

Windows Vista Freezing
And MS trying desperately catch up with vista... LOL -- MS "trying desperately" to catch up. Windows outnumbers Mac OSX 10 to 1, and is "desperate." I would I could be that desperate to catch up to my competition. Historical reasons. Macs used to be expensive, but they are not any more.

*nix leads - Microsoft follows Re: Vista Pros and Cons
No contest. Macs have pretty looking UIs, but that's about it. I find the menu at the top edge of the monitor (instead of on the active window) to be annoying, for starters. Vista also has a pretty UI, but if I get a Vista PC, I'll probably disable most of "Aero" and set up the UI to look like Windows 2000 (just

2003 Bulwer-Lytton Contest Winners
Further, there's lots of stuff in Vista that the competitors don't yet have, though again, they may have before Vista ships. Reveal was one of the entries in the Extend Firefox contest <http://developer.mozilla.org/contests/extendfirefox> for more info, there's a couple of really interesting ones there.

Windows apologists and Vista's Tiger features
... comp sys mac advocacy Megadave wrote: In article <grydnYmiP9a7OjHanZ2dnUVZ_uidn...@bresnan.com>, Maverick <S...@ranch.org> wrote: Vista will loose (obviously). Windows took about 20mins, UNIX about 3 hours. OpenVMS... now THERE is an OS. Beyond rock solid. I've got two Vaxstation 4000 with OpenVMS on them.

NYTimes Now So Wowed by Windows Vista
why don't we see any Windows logos so prominently displayed? -- Paul Hovnanian mailto: P...@Hovnanian.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ There was a man who entered a local paper's pun contest. He sent in ten different puns, in the hope that at least one of them would win.

Windows Vista
Windows Vista is still at BETA 1, so its too early to even come up with a final release date since its up in the air and always subject to change. If you live in any of the qualified countries, you can take guess at the release date for a chance to win great prizes in the Beta Experience Contest

The Contest - Windows XP on an Intel Mac, $11908 so far...
Alan Morris [MSFT] ala...@online.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista print_fax_scan I am a printer guy so I don't fax. When I have to, version of Windows that is shipped. Marketing group had a difference of opinion and won the contest. There was lots of discussion but in the end devs lost this battle.

Ten Reasons to Buy Windows Vista, Five Things That Will Give ...
... at the window edges and titlebar - translucent and no shadow in the back!!) Cheers! oh my gosh Vista is not even out yet and you already have it. Are you Bill Gates??? You didn't notice the web page he was link'd to did you:) -- Winner Best Worst Writing Contest http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2005.htm.

Article: Is Windows Vista Ready?
Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin] andre...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows vista general Boot into safe mode and check the Event Log in Adminstrative Tools to see if there are any error messages relating to start up? If you do, copy the contest and post back here for a better diagnosis. Also, are there any external

Ten Reasons to Buy Windows Vista, Five Things That Will Give ...
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