Piling on Vista

[Vladimir]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/bu...ll&oref=slogin

More red meat for the anti-vista crowd.

[Rick]

I must of laughed for five minutes. It serves Microsoft right; the arrogant ***'s If I had known what I know now I would never have bought one.

[Husar]

I heard it comes with SecuROM!

[The Wandering Scholar]

That link is just.. words fail me.

[ArtistofWarfare]

Good thing my new PC is ideal for running Vista

First post from my new PC and Vista and I have to say, Vista is much prettier. Seems more accessible as well.

For the people who are getting "burned" by installing Vista onto systems that simply cannot handle it: They have every right to feel the way they do. MS is definitely not being upfront about what it really takes to run Vista appropriately.

Then again, we've been dealing with these same kind of lies for years, from many companies. Just refer yourself to the "minimum" and "recommended" system requirements for any PC game. The specs they list are never enough to run the game without experiencing severe performance issues.

Nothing new here...but still- Unacceptable.

Word to the wise- Core 2 Duo, 8xxx line of Nvidia's graphics cards, 3+ gigs of RAM...or else don't even bother with Vista.

Basically the way I see it: Unless you plan on using Vista for gaming, ON a gaming PC...it's totally not worth it as of now. And unless you have those specs I mention above, it's going to be even worse for gaming than XP is currently for you.

Once again though in fairness- If you have a system that can handle it, go for it. No worries. Direct X 10 alone gives you a reason. Still, I would have to imagine that the large majority of people looking for Direct X 10 in the first place are PC gamers.

[Husar]

I "only" have a 79xx graphicscard and concerning Microsoft being honest about System Requirements, I want you to show me a game that runs and looks like it does in promotion videos when you barely meet the minimum requirements...
Apart from that, I had the beta running on an Athlon XP 2400+ with 1GB of RAM and a 6600GT, with AeroGlass on and it worked, I also played games on it and it worked...
It's just my experience of course, but for me it worked, although it could take half a second for the start menu to pop up or so.