ScottJC said:
There are some good things about Vista as well as the bad, Vista's new UI uses vector based graphics to draw its GUI; this is a good thing because no matter how large the screen goes it will always look perfect... ever tried to play a Macromedia Flash file full screen? A normal movie loses its looks when stretched but these look identical to their smaller version.
Vectors all about drawing from one dot to another to draw objects, vectors are awesome - but they cost more hardware time which is one of the reasons why we'll all need to upgrade our graphics cards.
The GUI seems to be really awesome indeed. I personally like the Aero style. The search option is very impressive - it's for sure a great add for the OS. What keeps me away from Vista is really the hardware requeriments. Of course, if I had a good gpu and more RAM, I would certainly use Vista. But I won't upgrade my PC just for Vista. XP is still good and very useable for my needs. That's why I won't use the new OS (for now of course, who knows the future).
As for the features, Vista will be more flexible than XP imo, but again with a lot of useless things. What will make it unstable will be the low-end hardware I think (on the beginning of XP, lots of people said that it is worst than 98, due it's unstability. But they've said that because they hadn't hardware enough for it - cause any XP runs better 98 on a proper hardware). So, a nice and rich rig will be a need for Windows Vista.
About the sound options, that's very good to hear.
Doom said:
Also remember that I doubt DX10 will ever be released for XP because of two reasons:
- It will probably be managed, to work fluently with Vista (which means it will be slow on XP).
I have thought about it too, I guess DX10 will be coded specially to run on Vista, using it's new graphic capabilities.
- And of course, marketing. Microsoft wants people to upgrade to their newest OS.
Heh, for one moment I forgot that M$ want moniz. :evil: