Windows Vista Beta 2 public release

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Vincent wrote:
Wow, just found something quite nifty.

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Sounds extremely irritating. Why do you have to click through all those dialogues and make all those decisions just to see an error from the app? Why can't it just appear, like every other decent OS on the planet?

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Waccoon wrote:
I find it awkward not having buttons like "Stop" and "Home" in the web browser (Safari on the Mac drives me crazy)

Errr...



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moto

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Vincent wrote:
I'm not sure, but I'm thinking that it could be that Vista is now using vector graphics.

That window has only happened with Sygate.  Absolutely nothing else so it's maybe the way that Sygate draws it's windows on the screen that's the problem.

So you're saying Vista is only capable of drawing vector windows? I can't believe that - what about when you open an image file, that's not a vector isn't it. I'm sure if they really tried hard, Microsoft could allow Vista to render a bitmap object in its vector environment.

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Oliver wrote:
Anytime I install any version of windows, there is just so much fiddling to turn off pretty silly features, and make the system behave in a productive fashion.

I agree. At least Amiga Workbench, which can be heavily customised, functions nicely without needing to be tweaked. The only OS I have ever used out of the box, with zero customisation (except the background...) is MacOS, which is as close to perfect as I can imagine.

Oliver wrote:
As far as security goes, well, lets just wait and see.

Yep, we'll hear all about the security holes in the news :lol:

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moto