Vista Closes in on 150 Million Sold Licenses

[narangz]

^who will use Vi$ta illegal copies? heh!my local assembler says nobody wants vi$ta now as it is a flop as the news spreads. it is not smooth as butter,it needs a 2GB RAM+good gfx card +good processor to run the white elephant(vi$ta)

I've 1 GB RAM, Nvidia 6150 onboard graphics & AMD X2 3800+
Vista runs fine.
Is this a super machine?

Man please don't spread that crap. Writing sh1t against windows in each & every windows & ms related thread is not fair. I am not fighting with you or attacking you(as you said in some other thread). It's a humble request.

You haven't replied to my thread in OSS section that why ubuntu is slower than Vista on my system? But keep writing against Vista. Did I write crap about linux in that or other threads?

If you really want to spread OSS then this is not the right way to do so.
You can have linux related threads & you've complete OSS section for that. Create a website or whatever to spread OSS awareness but do it in the right way. I hope you understand & don't take this in a wrong way.

 

[iMav]

those who sucks in ethics will use vi$ta

we dont need lessons in ethics from ppl who openly say tht they support piracy

PS: avoid making such statements

 

[desiibond]

Vista needs a good PC to run buy anyone can run it.

The latest edition of ubuntu needs a good pc to run, a techie to run and access to google to run.

That's what the difference is.

I've 1 GB RAM, Nvidia 6150 onboard graphics & AMD X2 3800+
Vista runs fine.
Is this a super machine?

Man please don't spread that crap. Writing sh1t against windows in each & every windows & ms related thread is not fair. I am not fighting with you or attacking you(as you said in some other thread). It's a humble request.

You haven't replied to my thread in OSS section that why ubuntu is slower than Vista on my system? But keep writing against Vista. Did I write crap about linux in that or other threads?

If you really want to spread OSS then this is not the right way to do so.
You can have linux related threads & you've complete OSS section for that. Create a website or whatever to spread OSS awareness but do it in the right way. I hope you understand & don't take this in a wrong way.

+1. Vista runs super smooth on my 3 yr old Thinkpad T43 and in my desktop with AMD 3000+ single core, 1Gig ram, 6150 chipset.

The most confusing installation that I did was Ubuntu.

One question for Mr. Big Mouth.

I have Pinnacle PCTV TV tuner card. On vista, I just install Pinnacle TV app, run the scan and watch TV. Tell me how to do the same for linux

Think of me as a pure non-techie, I don't want to use a single command for this, don't want to see a single error as I do not understand anything about error.

 

[praka123]

we dont need lessons in ethics from ppl who openly say tht they support piracy

PS: avoid making such statements

it was purposely bend to weigh whether I support Digital Restrictions Management(DRM) or Piracy ?
I have answered piracy!because NO WAY can we expect the imposition of DRM looting user's rights.
Why I DONT support DRM(you also should):

Proprietary software going wrong

The limits of proprietary software go beyond the security issue (see our article on source code): today proprietary software interferes with the spread of culture and information. This happens mainly through two technologies:

• Digital Restrictions Management 1 (DRM)
  
  The main idea of DRM 1 is to restrict access to files. Users encounter this when, for example, they purchase music through iTunes, and then can only play their music with one player, from one brand. With this method, companies fight copyright infringement, but they also severely restrain users' access to their files.
  DRM is control over content
  Except that the control is not in the hands of the end-user. The original purpose of DRM is understandable, but the implications over the flow of information and culture within a society are frightening.
  • Imagine a book that automatically became glued shut after you read it once.
  • Imagine documents that self-destructed if you tried to take them out of the room.
  • Imagine telephones that only worked if the person you were ringing was renting the same make and model.
  Sounds crazy? This is where Trusted Computing comes in.
  
• Trusted Computing (TC)
  
  Trusted Computing (sometimes more accurately called "Treacherous Computing") means a computer can only run "Trusted" Software. It is meant to be an uncircumventable protection against nuisances (like viruses or spyware) and copyright violations (people copying proprietary software).
• 
  
  Trusted Computing is control over the computer
  The critical thing about Trusted Computing is that you cannot decide what is trustworthy and what is not. For example, your computer might refuse to run programs that are not certified by the software company –programs that could enable you to take documents out of the office, or play your neighbour's DVD, or send your essay to someone not using the same program.
  A whole range of possibilities opens up for companies that benefit from restricting your computing (such as proprietary software and recording companies). It is suddenly possible to rent DVDs that only play two times, or music you can only listen to during September, or information you can read but can't save or copy. All of a sudden, Trusted Computing and DRM enable remote control over content.
  Trusted Computing, in effect, enables the publisher to write their own copyright law.

*www.getgnulinux.org/windows/stand_for_a_free_society/

But I am against piracy by any standards.I dont use window$ at all,although I have XP license+cd resting somewhere in my house.
Infact the biggest hypocrats are those who use pirated window$ and come here to preach M$haft gospel

Infact those who install's OS X 10.5.x from torrents to their PC's and coming here to defend piracy should stfu.

 

[desiibond]

^^^ Dude. Terming yourself as OSS guy and not being able to answer questions asked about linux?? You should be ashamed of yourself for being so irritant, ignorant, hypocrat.

anyone with some sense remaining will switch to GNU/Linux or BSDs flaming me dont help u ppl either.GO the FOSS way!

It is you that are flaming with jealousy that noone's interested in your rants.

Better learn how to answer questions on linux and then spread the FOSS gospel.

and btw, watch this video. The phrase that macguy and windows guy say at the end is directed towards people like you who are more ignorant than educated.

*www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjpn3L3bSJQ

 

[praka123]

^oh I see!I had tried PCTV50i ("vi$ta capable) on a system with Ubuntu,and it automagically ran with tvtime software without any use of terminal,if that is what u want to say!
while in XP,it tooks a lot of time and reboots to install the software(2 CDs of media centre different versions) HAHA!
BTW,I configured the card for DTH(SUN DTH).
-

recording with tuner -Mythtv OK?
and while in XP,that tuner card struggles stuttering sounds all the mediacentre software is buggy!what say yaar?am I a big mouth?Thank You

 

[desiibond]

nope. those aren't working.

 

[ray|raven]

Offtopic:

Mods, please move it to Fight-Club, Its become yet-another-windows-vs-linux thread

 

[desiibond]

I get crystal clear audio quality for my card in XP. Don't bluff man.

just do a google for tvtime + pinnacle

and all that you see is no sound, no signal, no sound, no signal, blah blah blah.

huh. ignorant fanboy.

 

[praka123]

who's bluffing what? really ur not understanding.I had made threads reg this tuner.
I used S-video out of mpeg4 receiver for video and that tuner card was not having AV in.I have to use the onboard audio for sound(line-in).
and my uncle is happy using the tuner with Ubuntu rather than virus ridden XP

 

[desiibond]

^^^LOL. supreme bluffing. uncle's happy using tuner with Ubuntu. I would say entire KPHB colony (asia's biggest colony, located in Hyderabad) is happy using Windows rather than "OS that look better in 'init 0'than in 'init 5' "

 

[praka123]

doesnot make sense talking to immature ppl

 

[desiibond]

^^^. Great, now you know how everone else feels when you do those stupid rants on forums. so, STFU.

 

[praka123]

it is you who is not understanding!CTC! pctv 50i works very well in Ubuntu with TVtime.I can vouch that!the driver used is saa7134 (philips).
what more u want baby?

 

[desiibond]

Now, coming to the actual topic:

yes. I do belive that Vista will do what XP does in the coming months. I think it will not take much time for Vista to become mainstream.

Yes. there are some issues and most of them are resolved in SP1 (500+ issues fixed).

been using this OS for past couple of months and it's really good (for me)

 

[axxo]

I've 1 GB RAM, Nvidia 6150 onboard graphics & AMD X2 3800+
Vista runs fine.
Is this a super machine?

its not all about running the os..if thats the case even a 386pc would run linux..1gb/even 512mb enough to run vista..
1gb is ok..but 2gb necessary for ur apps to breath enough in the os environment

 

[Hitboxx]

Enough already.

[OFFTOPIC]
@praka, stop it. nag, nag, nag.

@desiibond, Tell Pinnacle to provide a TV App that works on Linux, its not the fault of Linux that they don't provide. But still it can be made to work using Tvtime, though you have to select France as the frequency(coz India is not listed coz of lack of contributors of the regional code). And frankly, if you don't want to know a single command, then I suggest you never touch Linux in your life.
[/OFFTOPIC]

One more rant and thread gets closed.

Ontopic, those are nice figures for Vista, but I have my doubts of the corporate sales included in that figure. Or are these personal licenses of Vista on people's computers?

 

[axxo]

Enough already.
Ontopic, those are nice figures for Vista, but I have my doubts of the corporate sales included in that figure. Or are these personal licenses of Vista on people's computers?

single license multiple copies

 

[desiibond]

Enough already.

[OFFTOPIC]
And frankly, if you don't want to know a single command, then I suggest you never touch Linux in your life.
[/OFFTOPIC]

yep. That's what I do
Linux not necessary for my day-to-day life. Windows does everything that is needed and that too with ease. If it ain't broke, Don't try to fix it. this might well be the reason why people are not migrating to non-MS OS.

If a company doesn't provide s/w or drivers for linux, that's a problem with that manufacturer and if the same happens with Vista, why are people blaming MS?? Isn't that too much??

 

[narangz]

its not all about running the os..if thats the case even a 386pc would run linux..1gb/even 512mb enough to run vista..
1gb is ok..but 2gb necessary for ur apps to breath enough in the os environment

For me & the apps I use 1GB is more than enough & after SP1 the speed is great.

Apps I use- VS, Dreamweaver & such stuff. Anti virus I use is Avira.

512 MB is the minimum rec. You can't expect Vista to run speedily with 512MB RAM.