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I wanted to share this Ctrl+Alt+Del comic with you guys. Basically it shows what moving to Vista feels like. At first you don’t want to leave Windows XP which you’ve become acquainted with and then you move to Vista. At first Vista is painful but you eventually adapt to it while it is still painful

View the original here.

Oh and for those who didn’t know the RSBANDB April fools prank ended two days ago

Edit: My April Desktop

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” While on a trip in Europe, Bill Gates claimed Vista is so secure and reliable that it could even run life support systems in hospitals. Would you let your life in Vista’s hands? ”

“This would really give a new meaning to the ‘Blue Screen of Death’”

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Today is a day that I thought would never come. Even last week it was sorta surreal, sitting eating lunch seeing Windows Vista advertised in the Future Shop and Best Buy fliers. Today Windows Vista was released after 5 years of work on it. I’m not running it as of right now, although I should take another look at it. It’s everywhere, from the tech communities such as digg all the way to Global National news in Canada. Local news reports state that upwards of 80 people were waiting at a Best Buy store before they opened today to get their copy of Windows Vista.

Some people say that the majority of features were copied by Apple’s OS X. That is the truth, it does give a fresh new feeling, several other applications have been added that are apple like. Some of these applications are the ‘gadgets’ and sidebar, beautiful windows effects and 3D transitions, and most notably the live search feature in the start menu (Can I call it this anymore?).

I will be taking another look at it, I just hope that there are no immediate security concerns. One more thing that made me feel better about it was clarification that only applications that require strong DRM will be effected if you don’t have the right equipment. Basically the entire system won’t be effected if you don’t have the right monitor or DVD player while trying to play a high-definition DVD format.

Has the ‘Wow’ started for you?

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This is what my install of Windows Vista looked like yesterday:

Windows Vista is a nice operating system. It has finally brought in some elements of OS X that are not available in Windows XP by default. Two of these are the DVD burning capability and the built in live search. Makes DVD writing and searching much easier than XP.

The only reason I’m not using it now is because I want to be certain I’m not a walking security hole.

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I’ve played around with the previous versions of the Vista beta and RC series. I’ve played with build 5270 (December last year), build 5384 (first public release pre-RC1), RC1(build 5600), RC2(build 5744). Vista has gotten better since I first got to look at build 5270 back in December. RC2 is very solid, all my drivers work (the MIDI synthesizer isn’t the best though ).

I can also say that I am very impressed with the Aero UI (the glass, 3D fliper, and window animations). Windows Vista has been in development a long time, since before XP shipped in October 2001. You can read more about the “Road to Gold” at the WinSupersite. At this point in time I am happy with XP and feel that it is pretty secure after two service packs. This is the exact reason as to why I will be holding off upgrading to Vista. That being that I don’t want an OS that will be full of security holes. Now I am not saying that it will be plagued by holes as XP was. What I am really saying is that I just want to give Vista some time to sit in the wild with people trying to attack it.

If there are not many significant security holes by 6 months after the time Vista has been released I will gladly upgrade to it. I’ll probably go for Vista Home Premium. You can see more on the versions here.

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PS: As a final note on Windows Weekly 4, they stated that Longhorn (codename for Vista) was named after a bar You can download the clip here.

Microsoft did an about-face yesterday, agreeing to make it easier for customers of its forthcoming Vista operating system to use outside security vendors, such as those who make popular antivirus and anti-spyware programs.
Until now, Microsoft had planned to block those companies from installing their products in the deepest levels of the new OS.

This needs to be done as some products do a better job than Microsoft itself.

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