window's vista

[OPM]

Anyone know why there is so much spam assoc with this? I am getting about 20-30/day.

[njcurveball]

20-30 Emails from Microsoft (legit address) or from other spammers who simply put Vista in the message to get people to read it?

[Donnie]

Haven't gotten one myself!! Must be the sites you've been visiting.......:eek:

[km]

Hey Donnie (or anyone), have you tried running HTR2 on Vista?

I hear there are problems and a lot of software will not function on it.

I wonder if there will be new programming platforms, such as Visual Basic for Vista that creates exe that won't run on WinXP, 98 ,etc ?

[Donnie]

Ken--
Tomorrow at work I will ask one of the other instructors if they have prepared a build with it yet (I think one of the others said the other day they have....) if so, I can build a computer tomorrow over lunch and add HTR and see if there are any issues.
Will report back tomorrow!

[tbrown]

www.badvista.org

[Donnie]

one of the first things I am finding out is that before you can load Vista, your machine must be up to date with all Windows updates for XP. Tried to load it first on a 2000 machine, got a message that said it cannot install from that operating system. Ghosted an XP machine and it told me I didn't have the most recent version. So I had to do all the silly updates. Got the machine to load finally and found out that what I had was a copy of the program when they code named it Longhorn. Obtained a more recent copy and will attempt again in the next couple days!

[BillW]

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt

Discussion regarding some extra "features" in Vista from MS. Sure sounds like they better approve of what you are doing with "their" software or else. :mad:

[njcurveball]

Thanks for the link Bill!!

I am far less anxious to get a copy of Windows Vista now!

Jim

[Donnie]

yesterday's news also had a story about security flaws already uncovered in it!! Merry Christmas from Bill and Gang in WA!!