windows vista work $200+ windows vista home $300+ you have got to be kidding me, vista isnt even that stable yet not also to mention most modern machines cant even run it without major upgrades then.. microsoft office 2007 basic $250+ microsoft office 2007 ultimate $550+ this is just retarted
Protip: Buy OEM versions at half price. Also, why put this Vista an old and outdated computer? A shiny new computer is the perfect excuse to buy a new operating system.
OEM? sorry havnt heard of it plus some of us cant buy a shinny new system, i wish but im stck with this one but thanks for the oem heads up
Windows XP Home Retail - $200 Windows Vista Home Basic Retail - $200 Windows XP Professional Retail - $300 Windows Vista Business Retail - $300 Your point is? Says somebody who owns niether Vista or a modern machine? Then again you probably read it on the internet, which means it must be true. Holy shit, the Berlin Wall just came down! Microsoft should make a cheap productivity package for home users thougth, they could call it Works and sell it for $50.
I had a quick play around on a Vista machine today. As far as sorta superficial stuff goes it's basically does what OSX did a few years ago. I'm sure it does much more good stuff behind the scenes though.
Pardon my ignorance, but what does OEM stand for? When I need to I'll upgrade, but right now I've no need to. Hell, I was using 98 on my home system until the internest killed it back in 2003. Then on another machine I was using Win2000 until 2006. I get good mileage on my OS's.
Original Equipment Manufacturer. - usually made for PC manufacturers who provide their own support, and who may wish to offer a cheaper version of that product to keep costs down.
Original equipment manufacturer. The idea is for people who build systems to be able to purchase cheap versions of software. But, since basically anybody can build a system and thus falls into the qualifications, consumers are also allowed to purchase OEM software, provided they buy it with some equipment. The definition of equipment is rather broad though...usually you can get an OEM copy of Windows just by buying a cheap cable. You spend $5 to get a cable, and you get the OS for half off retail. The catch is that it's an unboxed copy, and you're not usually eligible for support. Some OEM software also doesn't support the full features of the boxed copy, although I believe Windows is not one of those.
I bought a OEM version of XP, and will do the same for Vista. Works fine and I'd prefer to get the OEM version as they are usually cheaper and i don't need all the unessesry packagin. Though when I bought it I didn't have to buy any equipment with it...
The biggest issue Vista has had since launch is the fact that unlike Xp Microsoft hasnt budged on its architecture. When Xp was being developed MS molded the OS to fit the requests of some of the larger 3rd party developers especially when it came to security software. This time around they didnt budge at all and 3rd party developers both software, and hardware had to use the tools offered by the MS development team to alter their programs and convert their drivers to make them Vista capable. A LOT of these have been slow in doing so. Now MS is taking a lot of flack for Vista not being compatible with these software/hardware when actually its the software/hardware that is incompatible with Vista. A few major respected news networks have come out and said specifically that Vista is a "waiter" 3-6 months which has lead to lower than forcast sales as well.
Oh a worthy mention, a large portion of complaints is with networking especially over a wireless network. If you have a wireless router that is 4-5 years old there is a good chance that it cant recognize the ipv6 protocol that Vista uses as default. A lot of people are not even aware of what ipv6 is and unfortunately for older model owners its more economically viable for hardware developers to just sell you a new router rather than make a firmware update for ipv6.
im sure you can look it up online to confirm, im speaking from the memos given to us from the PTL for the product.
That wording is misleading. IPv6 is enabled by default but Vista only uses the protocol when it detects that it's connected to a network containing an IPv6 router. Otherwise it's IPv4 just like always. Undoubtedly there are devices that don't know how to interpret Vista's IPv6 feelers; it's just a waiting game now.
Vista can use 32 Bit IP, can't it? EDIT Didn't see your post Streck -thanks. I was about to go look that up as Jinrai (probably unintentionally)made it seem like IP 6 was already in major use.
