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Post by antharro on Jun 21, 2006 2:26:58 GMT
Anyone here running the official beta of Windows Vista? Or Office 2007?
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Post by Colin on Jun 21, 2006 2:52:04 GMT
Nope, niether of those - but I have been using the explorer 7 beta for a while now. I do like the tabbed browsing they've introduced with it.
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Post by antharro on Jun 21, 2006 3:34:39 GMT
Nope, niether of those - but I have been using the explorer 7 beta for a while now. I do like the tabbed browsing they've introduced with it. Yeah, tabbed browsing's an excellent idea. Been around for a while tho - Firefox and Opera have had it for a good while, not sure about Safari on the Mac. There have been different browsers released for the PC (CrazyBrowser comes to mind) that have had tabs and use Internet Explorer as their "engine", (think of it as a different interface for the same browser) but it's good that MS have finally caught up. Vista is quite different to XP (not at all like the difference between 2000 Pro and XP), takes some getting used to. I'm a partial insomniac and have rubbishy sleeping patterns anyway; what's your excuse for being up this late/early!?  |
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Post by compsci on Jun 21, 2006 8:37:50 GMT
My Business Studies lecturer was running it on the laptop he used to give presentations.
If Vista were a member of the university it would have been marched from the lecture theatre by the Proctors by about the second lecture for gross disturbance.
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Post by Colin on Jun 21, 2006 12:41:05 GMT
I'm a partial insomniac and have rubbishy sleeping patterns anyway; what's your excuse for being up this late/early!? I work permanant lates - most of the time I don't get home till 2 or 3 am. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2006 14:49:04 GMT
I run Windows Vista and it runs slowly on an Intel P4 3GHz, 1GB RAM machine.
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Post by Chris M on Jun 21, 2006 15:41:26 GMT
reminds me when I tried to run Windows 95 on a 25MHz 486SX with 8MB RAM...
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Post by Tomcakes on Jun 21, 2006 19:01:32 GMT
Nope, niether of those - but I have been using the explorer 7 beta for a while now. I do like the tabbed browsing they've introduced with it. Introduced = nicked from all the other browsers who introduced it first in a desperate attempt to make people stick with MSIE. , not sure about Safari on the Mac. Yep, it's included in recent versions I've used. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2006 20:10:43 GMT
Vista, yuk! I stick with my virus free Mac OS X !
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Post by antharro on Jun 25, 2006 0:31:18 GMT
I run Windows Vista and it runs slowly on an Intel P4 3GHz, 1GB RAM machine. Mmm, it runs okay on an Athlon64/3200 with 1Gb RAM. It's very obviously beta - there's lots of little bugs and flaws I wouldn't like to see in a final edition. There are actually viruses available for OS X, so it's not entirely virus-free. |
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Post by edb on Jul 8, 2006 22:19:08 GMT
Office 2007 is rather slow on my aging machine. But it is a vast improvement asthetically. IE7 breaks my outlook web access that i have from work. I've mentioned this to my colleagues but we think it will be fixed in the next release - And it is slow as the proverbial Vista - my computer will not run it  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2006 4:58:14 GMT
Nope, niether of those - but I have been using the explorer 7 beta for a while now. I do like the tabbed browsing they've introduced with it. You can use Firefox like that now. IMHO Firefox is a more stable browser anyway. |
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Post by SE13 on Jul 9, 2006 9:58:59 GMT
Vista is not compatable with all computers. Before even attempting to purchase/download this, look carefully at the system requirements, otherwise you might just damage your system.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2006 16:43:42 GMT
I doubt my system could run it! If i were you guys i would wait for both service packs to be out, so it will be bug freeish!  Cheers James |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2006 22:42:26 GMT
The system requirements for Vista are pretty harsh, even some computers on sale now won't run it. As ever, microsoft design a new product as inefficient as possible!
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Post by Colin on Jul 10, 2006 23:39:08 GMT
Nope, niether of those - but I have been using the explorer 7 beta for a while now. I do like the tabbed browsing they've introduced with it. You can use Firefox like that now. IMHO Firefox is a more stable browser anyway. As ever, microsoft design a new product as inefficient as possible! *opens can of worms* Well i've had no problems using microsoft products / explorer since I started using computers (windows 98 was the latest then). Ok, a slight fib, Millenium Edition was rubbish (but it still worked) - all this talk of unstable systems and Microsoft being totally rubbish....well it can't be that bad surely - every major computer shop sells computers with windows & most business's use windows. Microsoft is the biggest player in the game - not bad for a company that's rubbish.... |
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