PDA

View Full Version : Vista (for those interested in it)...

Baph
07-02-07, 09:34 AM
I've kept the title of this vague for obvious reasons, and I won't be providing ANY links to the below (at least in public).

Currently, all activation methods for Vista have been cracked. By that I mean the time expiry before you have to register it, the registration itself, and the "Genuine software validation." I knew about this last week, but the information has gone public :)

Long live the revolution ;) Get it whilst you can folks :)
SoulKiss
07-02-07, 10:09 AM
However.......

The current version is flawed in so many ways.

Correcting these flaws will probably require Microsoft involvement, with a result that these cracks will be detected and bypassed.

Recent benchmarks show that games run slower in Vista than XP - so apps may be the same.

Personally stick with XP, Vista is not fit for purposeand probably wont be for ages.

I have to work with Vista (and the server equivilent, currently still under the Longhorn name) in an analysis basis, so when it bocomes worth running Visat I'll let yuo all know :)

David
Baph
07-02-07, 10:15 AM
... and the day before the new Vista is released, the cracks will be available again :)

Vista was released on 30th Jan. I knew about the cracks mentionned above on 1st Feb, they probably existed before that, and they hit mainstream internet users around the 7th.

That's a whole 8 days to go from release, to public crack. The same happened with XP.
wyrdness
07-02-07, 10:26 AM
Apparently you can install Vista without a license key for a 30 day trial. If, during that time, you purchase a Vista upgrade CD, you can install that over the trial, without having to purchase a full copy of Vista. Microsoft have said that they aren't planning to fix this - presumably because very few people purchase the full version anyway.
Baph
07-02-07, 10:31 AM
Apparently you can install Vista without a license key for a 30 day trial.
And then you can use the trial until 2099 :shock: (without buying anything)
PsychoCannon
07-02-07, 11:13 AM
Until this amazing Operating system can actually OPERATE at least SOME of my damn hardware...I'm not interested....
Just like XP it doesn't currently recognise or work with most of my kit and it's all high end mainstream kit *sigh*

I think they need to rename it, it's not an OS anymore it's an oversized application.
Grinch
07-02-07, 12:34 PM
Bloatware.

Remove it and install something lighter...
Tina
07-02-07, 12:50 PM
The guys i work with installed Vista on my work PC and so far it's cool,
flaws etc = trial and error with any software.
on yer bike
07-02-07, 01:06 PM
I have no choice, my new laptop comes with it, tried to get a discount to get xp media centre, but no, it only comes with vista apparently
philipMac
07-02-07, 03:53 PM
These problems with the new MS operating system have taken us all by surprise.
Baph
07-02-07, 04:04 PM
These problems with the new MS operating system have taken us all by surprise.
Erm? :scratch:
Filipe M.
07-02-07, 04:05 PM
These problems with the new MS operating system have taken us all by surprise.
Erm? :scratch:

You should be wise enough by now to know sarcasm when you see it! :lol:
Baph
07-02-07, 04:25 PM
These problems with the new MS operating system have taken us all by surprise.
Erm? :scratch:

You should be wise enough by now to know sarcasm when you see it! :lol:
Sarcasm? Hmm, where's my dictionary gone...
Filipe M.
07-02-07, 04:26 PM
These problems with the new MS operating system have taken us all by surprise.
Erm? :scratch:

You should be wise enough by now to know sarcasm when you see it! :lol:
Sarcasm? Hmm, where's my dictionary gone...

This (http://www.google.co.uk) might help! :lol:
Baph
07-02-07, 04:28 PM
These problems with the new MS operating system have taken us all by surprise.
Erm? :scratch:

You should be wise enough by now to know sarcasm when you see it! :lol:
Sarcasm? Hmm, where's my dictionary gone...

This (http://www.google.co.uk) might help! :lol:
Thanks for the help, the answer that I got was "the b**t**d stepchild of irony" :shock:
SoulKiss
07-02-07, 05:04 PM
The guys i work with installed Vista on my work PC and so far it's cool,
flaws etc = trial and error with any software.

If "the guys" you work with did that to me I would hit them with big heavy things.

If I was the Head of IT and they did that I would hit them with big heavy things and sack them.

No Microsoft OS should be rolled out in a live production environment without extensive testing, meaning at least 6 months (and thats from after the 1st Service Pack)

Last I heard "Hot Fixes" were averaging 1 a day !!!

David