I am no longer so worried about the Alienware and Vista. I called Alienware and they sat on the phone until we fixed the wireless driver and everything else I was concerned about. They gave me a number for Microsoft Vista Ultimate support and they were thoroughly helpful and professional. Within minutes...
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I am really starting to worry that either I got a lemon Alienware or as someone noted its a fickle machine with drivers and such. Many of the problems I listed here may be indeed be the Alienware as I had a pretty decent Vista experience before besides the broken file copy over the network. The proof...
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This may be the only time in my life where I actually willingly downgraded an OS. I detailed all sorts of frustrations with Vista in this post . That's just that start: Orcas does not compile programs in Vista (Ok, its beta, but Vista should be a prime platform) I cannot burn any DVDs either using Vista...
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Scott asks, "Wouldn't it be great if there were an edition of Windows with all of the stupid features turned off?" Yes, it would and it must happen soon . I've spent the week and with my new Alienware and Vista Ultimate and I am frustrated well beyond words . So, I'll use Scott's words: I just...
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Windows Connected : "If you are a member of the Longhorn Server beta program there is a nice suprise in store for you this evening. Microsoft has posted the April CTP for your testing pleasure. Again the build number is in the 6001 series of builds, 6001-16497-070330-1720 to be exact ."...
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Today, I've been doing a bit of work at getting all the music I have on various systems together. I have a lot of music on my Mac OS/X system that I wanted to bring over to my Vista system. To do this, I wanted to map a network drive to Windows File Sharing on my iMac. Things were generally not working...
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So today's the day. After 5+ years, Windows Vista launches and it seems that there barely is a whimper. In really looking the last two days, there seems to be no real online and blogger buzz, and no real excitement. Where was that vaunted Billion dollar ad campaign? Why were there no TV ads? Anything...
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Ok, forget everything I said here . I bought a top of the line HP Pavilion Media Center m7674n TV PC with a Dual Core 2 E6440 and nVidia GeForce7300 LE, which is Windows Vista Premium Ready and what a freaking difference! HP was nice enough to leave a 160GB spare drive and I installed it in 15 minutes...
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I just upgraded my main machine from RC2 to RTM. The upgrade took over 3 hours in compute setup time! So far, I'm seriously underwhelmed but that could because I have used RC2 every day for weeks and maybe I'm missing something but: NVidia GeForce FX Go5200 driver not installed by default, installs stupid...
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The released Windows Vista is available for download on MSDN and TechNet . According to Robert (and may others) it is on Connect for us beta testers and will be given free to beta testers that submitted at least one bug!! but I don't see it there. Do others? Bits coming down for MSDN.......
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