Anyone See The Xbox One Reveal Yet?

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Originally Posted by Neal

Not everybody notices these issues. As a matter of fact I was just given a laptop for free that came with vista, and you know what OS was installed on it? XP.

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XP was the the best, hence why it's still being supported (for a few more months). But yeah, Vista was an awful OS which is why they rushed out 7 so quickly and why they look so similar. It's just Vista fixed. To an everyday user it would appear there were no problems though.

And don't even get me started on 8. It makes a great mobile OS, but running it on my desktop? Would you run iOS on your desktop?

There is a reason that much of corporate America still uses XP, skipped Vista and went to 7 and is refusing to switch to 8.

But GNU is really where it's at.

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Originally Posted by Neal

Not everybody notices these issues. As a matter of fact I was just given a laptop for free that came with vista, and you know what OS was installed on it? XP.

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I'm still waiting for you to tell me what these issues are.

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Originally Posted by Raptor

I'm still waiting for you to tell me what these issues are.

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Well, first there's *screeeeeeech* wait I'm *screech* going thro *shhhhh* tunnel. Call you *shhhhhhhhhh* ater.

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Originally Posted by Raptor

I'm still waiting for you to tell me what these issues are.

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There are many. One of the biggest is drivers. Another is how resource hungry it is. It performs slower than XP (6 years it's elder) for general tasks and gaming. For example, my parents crappy old laptop had Vista on it, it took around 7 min from power on to when you could log on and then another 3 after you logged in before you could do anything. I installed 7 on it and it's on, logged in and able to be used in under 5. The embedded digital rights management was another.

Why do you think when XP came out in 2001 they didn't put out a new OS until late 2006 (2007 for regular users)? But then from Vista to Windows 7 there was only a 2 year gap? From a regular user standpoint I would see how it would be okay but from an IT standpoint (which is the field I work in) it's a freaking nightmare. I have never heard of a business switching from XP to Vista, only from XP to 7. In the classes I take we don't even talk about it, we cover XP and 7 with a little bit of 8 thrown in. There isn't even a class I could take on it if I wanted to. The percentage of companies using it is so marginal that it doesn't make sense to have a class for it.

But like I said, to a regular user it wouldn't be an issue. If you like tinkering under the hood it's a mess. But yeah, resource hungry, driver issues, overpriced, the UAC, driver issues, needlessly complex menus to do simple tasks (when screwing with system settings I would usually just abandon the GUI and use command prompt), and oh yeah...driver issues.

There is a reason Microsoft continued to sell XP after they said they would stop and a reason they still support it today.

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Originally Posted by Raptor

I'm still waiting for you to tell me what these issues are.

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Now I mean this in the nicest way but since you want to basically call me out, I'll say something simple and I was hoping to avoid having to say.

My nephew who's 12 notices the issues in Vista, so if you can't then why even bother to explain? You obviously don't have enough computer knowledge to see the bugs/issues it has, so why am I going to waste my time with trying to explain to you? Google it if your curious, because I'm not going to waste my time on something pointless.

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mackynz told you some of the issues, and reiterated my point about it being a horrible OS from the knowledgeable standpoint.

I like Xbox

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Originally Posted by carlson

I like Xbox

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I would like Xbox a lot more if Live was free. They have some nice games, but I think it's stupid I buy the game, the console and now I have to pay to play it online.

Ya the buying live aspect annoys me but I now put off paying for it as long as possible, it's set up to auto pay into an old account so it keeps trying to pay itself for little over a week it seems before it gives up an makes me pay for it another way. It's my way of winning ha I get 35 days maybe 37 for the price of a month, I could just be special an talking myself into believing things.

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Originally Posted by carlson

Ya the buying live aspect annoys me but I now put off paying for it as long as possible, it's set up to auto pay into an old account so it keeps trying to pay itself for little over a week it seems before it gives up an makes me pay for it another way. It's my way of winning ha I get 35 days maybe 37 for the price of a month, I could just be special an talking myself into believing things.

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LOL. I bought an Xbox 360 a few years back when Halo: Reach was brand new. I loved the game. One good thing about live though is that you don't have all the kids you have on PS3 online, and for that reason I still prefer to game on the PC. I have amazing BF3 stats on the PC.

Anybody else here play BF3 on the PC?

I wish the kids weren't on but now adays if I run COD or any other shooter like that I'm in a party with buddies so I don't have to argue with them anymore lol. I want to be the first person with the new Xbox logged into the newest game just so I can say I was that guy the first