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[_r.u.s.s.]

Originally Posted by gregor

and remove the unnecessary protections....

haha, an optimist

[DeathDude]

Those protections won't be removed any time soon, check around google and you will find a few more policies and ideas Microsoft is apparently toying around with, to monitor Vista and whatnot.

[dosraider]

Can't be a problem, you don't like it? Don't buy Vista.
Do as my mother (78 now) , stay on W98SE behind a hardware router with firewall.

And about MS stopping sooner (or later in fact) XP support, that doesn't mean XP will be obsolete, does it?
You can stay on your beloved XP as long as you want.
Now yeah, if you wanna play the newest games and stuff ....... you will have to pay for the appropiate hardware and OS.

Or buy a Mac, euuurh, wait .... that's even worst than MS all things considered.

Linux then. Oh wait euuuuu, you will have to learn things to use that, darned.

Buy a PS3. Solved. :laugh:

[Doubler]

Buy a PS3 and instead of just sacrificing most consumer freedom, sacrifice it all? Instead of supporting a bad company, support a worse one? Instead of not being able to use the alternatives without significant effort, have no alternatives at all? Instead of having to put some effort in to play 20-year old games, not at all being able to play anything older then 5? Instead of struggling to retain some power over the corporations (and your own computer, for that matter), hand all power over to them? Instead of suffering corporatism, actively encourage it?
Yeah, consoles are a good choice

[MinigunFiend]

You're seriously saying that Sony are worse than Microsoft?

Yeah, good choice :cheesy:

[Blood-Pigggy]

Whoever says "Bring back DOS" doesn't know what they're talking about, everyone hated DOS, even the people who developed for it (maybe especially) the OS may have had some good games, but damn, did it suck.

To reaffirm this, YOU WANT DOS BACK? YOU WANT ME TO WRITE MY OWN CONFIG FILES AGAIN? SCREW YOU.

[GTX2GvO]

Originally Posted by dosraider

......And soon in the same nuthouse Vista -> whatever follows.

Ahh... Talking about Windows 7?

Apparently Microsoft Moved UP the release to the Second Half of 2009... !!!..
See Article (In Dutch)

But Judging Microsoft (& the responses to the article),
We can "safely" assume This new MS OS will arrive around End 2010 / Early 2011.
(Start calling your bookmaker )

Just Warning you guy's.
It's not so That I'm interested in Vista. (or W7 for the same matter)
I'm Literally running a good 5 years behind when looking at the WinOS I'm using.
So Vista Interest for me Will ONLY come After 2011. (when W7 probably arrives :amused: )

[dosraider]

Originally Posted by GTX2GvO

I'm Literally running a good 5 years behind when looking at the WinOS I'm using.

That's not bad at all, in fact.
Means you're on a windows that had its bugrace and all the necesary sp packs, with the drivers you need.
Remember W2K? Once it had SP4 on it it was really good.
Same with XP, sp2 is a lot better than the original, and the sp3 pack will improve it even more.

So by the time you get on vista it will be at last developed enough, the sp packs ready, and finally the drivers will be adapted to it. And last but not least the appropiate hardware to run vista comfortly will be cheap.

And of course you will be able to get it for free. :amused:

Not bad at all, running five years behind, not bad at all, really.
And as for HALO756, who cares about that when you can run Blood or X-Com.
I certainly don't care much about the newer games, sure thing.

[GTX2GvO]

There are Just a Few things You Might need to Considder

Originally Posted by dosraider

Remember W2K? Once it had SP4 on it it was really good.

I Actually skipped this OS when I went from 98SE to XP.
Considering to do the same between XP, Vista & W7.
So That might mean I will wear out XP till the Last use full day.
(For my usefulness that is)

Originally Posted by dosraider

And of course you will be able to get it for free.

Well... Ehhhmm.. Actually...

I'm Already able to Get Vista "For Free". (any version, any language )
(only Win XP Home on my Laptop has been bought, WITH the Laptop)
Hé, I'm calling myself a (Web)Space Pirate for a Good reason.
But I'm just not interested in something that's as much as a bug ridden bloat as Vista Is For Me.

[rabadi]

I mostly agree with the "Save XP" sentiment, but only because I will not buy Vista.

I used to work with Win2K and Win2003 Server in the office, but for the last 6 months or so my company decided to switch to Linux. I can't say I regret it, smart choice in my humble opinion. At work I nowadays use Ubuntu and PCLinuxOS on workstations, Red Hat and CentOS on servers. True, it takes some time to get used to, but once I got the hang of it I never want to go back to Windows (for work that is, for game is another point altogether).

I still use WinXP on my ancient laptop at home, only because it was an OEM version, and the cd-rom on that old machine has broken a few years ago (I'm too lazy to replace it, not to say that the sparepart may not be available anymore).

With keeping WinXP as my gaming platform, I might be missing out a lot of new games, specially if they are to be designed for Vista only. But for a guy like me, who as an Abandonia member mostly play DOS games (not to mention nowadays I am usually quite busy that I do not have time to play games as often as I used to have, you know: work, family, wife and daughter etc. that become my priority these days), I think I'm okay with WinXP, especially since I can also play DOS games with DOSBox in Linux, and few Windows games under Wine in Linux. For game outside PC, I ocasionally play games on PDA.

That, or buy PS3 in the future. Or perhaps Xbox. But then again, my priority is not really on game these days. Still, as I said I mostly agree with the "Save XP" sentiment.