Windows Vista to be Released in 2006
- paulrmartin
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Topic already Posted: 2005-08-03 19:58On 2005-08-06 02:41, braincell wrote:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/b ... ility.mspx
"The Windows Vista engineering motto: No hangs, no crashes, no reboots."
Oh how I wish this will be true!
http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... orum=31&21
- paulrmartin
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I can see your point but for me XP is not working so well. I'm going to take the leap. I'll have an image and if Vista won't work with Creamware I will go back to XP within 20 minutes. Then I will do the stupid NI authorizations. Stupid copy protection. I hate that!
On 2005-08-06 21:29, paulrmartin wrote:
Hey it took me so long to get SFP working within XP. I'm not about to screw with what works. Besides, it may take a heck of a long time before CW gets SFP working in Vista, no?
In all humility, I'm just not knowledgeable enough to become a beta-tester for SFP in Vista.
I've noticed a trend sice when I've got a pc:
New processors and hardwares (with better performances) "need" new software; (they say: this software exploits your computer. For example I remember the first games and softwares that exploit the MMX instructions.)
But new software needs new hardware to work well and after a few time the new hardware is stricly required to make it works at all.
It's like a chain. I think that behind this there are a lot of "Businnes and Marketing" reasons. Today it works in this way.
Widows XP is another example in my opinion.
I've got both installed winxp and win2000 in my PC and in terms of stability and they are pretty the same. The biggest change I've noticed is the graphic interface... and the wheight of the OS on the system resources... Well Win2000 works in a decent way on my old pc with 128 Mb od ram and 233 MHz. Win Xp runs decent on my pc with 800 MHz and 512 MB of ram. Obviously to make music I go in the win2000 partition.

New processors and hardwares (with better performances) "need" new software; (they say: this software exploits your computer. For example I remember the first games and softwares that exploit the MMX instructions.)
But new software needs new hardware to work well and after a few time the new hardware is stricly required to make it works at all.
It's like a chain. I think that behind this there are a lot of "Businnes and Marketing" reasons. Today it works in this way.

Widows XP is another example in my opinion.
I've got both installed winxp and win2000 in my PC and in terms of stability and they are pretty the same. The biggest change I've noticed is the graphic interface... and the wheight of the OS on the system resources... Well Win2000 works in a decent way on my old pc with 128 Mb od ram and 233 MHz. Win Xp runs decent on my pc with 800 MHz and 512 MB of ram. Obviously to make music I go in the win2000 partition.

- kensuguro
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ya know, I always thought I'd be cutting edge and be trying out all the newest stuff, but recently I figured out that if I keep on doing that, I'd have an unstable system forever. That's okay for a hobby I guess, but like many of use here, if the DAW needs to be rock solid, then the "if it ain't broke" method works best, although the trade off is that you'll end up with a slightly older system.
Nothing's worth more than a working setup! Amen to that! (I just recovered from RAM chips gone bad and not meeting deadlines for 2 demos, ouch)
Nothing's worth more than a working setup! Amen to that! (I just recovered from RAM chips gone bad and not meeting deadlines for 2 demos, ouch)