According to internal documentation I recently reviewed, Vista Beta 2 is scheduled to be "feature complete" by September 29, 2005. Then, Vista Beta 2 will enter lockdown mode between October and November 9, 2005. After that date, Beta 2 will be in escrow. Microsoft now plans to ship Windows Vista Beta 2 on December 7, 2005, about three weeks later than the last schedule I obtained.
What about post-Beta 2? According to a second set of documentation I viewed Monday, Microsoft will ship Windows Vista Release Candidate 0 (RC0) on April 19, 2006, and Windows Vista RC1 on June 28, 2006. Microsoft currently plans to release Windows Vista to manufacturing on August 9, 2006, and make the product broadly available by November 15, 2006.
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“The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” - Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez
I don't know what they could possibly be doing to make this thing need that much of a computer. Isn't the whole purpose of moving the graphics to the 3d engine to make the computer faster on older stuff? Most Geforce3s or higher are more than plenty to run 1024x786 desktop with a couple hundred polygons for the windows. The games they can run use thousands. Although memory on the video card could be a problem but thats about it.
i wouldent mind using linux, but i have so many questions about how to use it. i need someone to write a book called migrating from windows xp to linux. i need a huge table that shows the answer to "where is" and then a hundred things below it that the advanced XP user would look for every day. where is disk management? where is my hard drive exactly? where do i set master permissions for accounts? where is the startup utility that automaticly opens programs when i log on? grr. i hate linux with a passion for being so hard to migrate to. oh, and an excelent question: how the hell do you install a program? i downloaded this program and none of the files it came with worked as installation files. what the hell!
Originally posted by fogus i wouldent mind using linux, but i have so many questions about how to use it. i need someone to write a book called migrating from windows xp to linux. i need a huge table that shows the answer to "where is" and then a hundred things below it that the advanced XP user would look for every day. where is disk management? where is my hard drive exactly? where do i set master permissions for accounts? where is the startup utility that automaticly opens programs when i log on? grr. i hate linux with a passion for being so hard to migrate to. oh, and an excelent question: how the hell do you install a program? i downloaded this program and none of the files it came with worked as installation files. what the hell!
ok, sorry. im sure linux is a great OS.
I know some people who have used linux since they were 10 and find windows just as hard. But those are all great questions. I sugest you go to a library if you really want to know those things. A book has to have been writtin with migration from windows to linux like that.
Really though the best way to learn linux is to know someone who is good at it and lives close who can help you. Thats how I learned. That and reading the documentation for the distro I'm using. For example Gentoo has documentation for all but the "where is my HD" question. Mainly because your HD isn't anywhere but there are some places you can reference it.
AHHA! just noticed that the higher versions will only support 2CPUs.. so no go on upgrading all thoes quad xeons and opteron rigs... and if you have a dula core your screwed unless you get the bigger version.
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Dual core is treated as one CPU by WinXP (for licensing purposes) and I would presume it's the same for Vista.
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“The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” - Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez
How does it hand out tasks to the proc? The same as a single core? The split is in the hardware? Was thinkin bout gettin one, but was waiting for more apps that could utilize it. If its in the hardware then there would have to be a massive performance increase in gaming. With all the tasks running in the background, most of them could be devoted to one core, leaving one for a larger app..............BF2?
