windows vista and 4.0 in Off Topic

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Sep 25 2005, 7:19 am
Is this true?
Microsoft Windows Vista will require a monthly subscription of $49.95 to use. If the subscription expires, it will erase all data and refuse to boot.

BYOND 4.0 will only be available for use by BYOND Members.

thats an old forum post
#1 Sep 25 2005, 7:21 am
Xx Dark Wizard xX wrote:
Is this true?
Microsoft Windows Vista will require a monthly subscription of $49.95 to use. If the subscription expires, it will erase all data and refuse to boot.

BYOND 4.0 will only be available for use by BYOND Members.

thats an old forum post



Let's see, fifty bucks times 12 is 600 dollars a year. Nobody would do it..


Now, I don't think they should specify 4.0 for members. But, as a non-member I do agree that they should have the beta testing before we do.
#2 Sep 25 2005, 9:54 am
Byond will always be free. They will never charge us for it. Byond Members just support byond get extra crap for it.
#3 Sep 25 2005, 10:57 am
In response to Cheetoz (#1)
[link]

Read the context of the post, not just bits and pieces.
#4 Sep 25 2005, 11:24 am
rofl. Good one.
#5 Sep 25 2005, 5:29 pm
Will vista seriously require a yearly fee?

That's horrible, who will use that piece of refuse? >=[

~Kujila
#6 Sep 25 2005, 5:42 pm
In response to Kujila (#5)
Kujila wrote:
Will vista seriously require a yearly fee?

That's horrible, who will use that piece of refuse? >=[

~Kujila

Ah, No it's FUD created by Mike H as an example in post:
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#7 Sep 26 2005, 3:02 pm
In response to Kujila (#5)
Anyways, even if it did, such <s>pirates</s> smart fellows like us wouldn't have to pay.
#8 Sep 26 2005, 6:54 pm
In response to Hell Ramen (#7)
It's not that it's the ethics behind it. I wouldn't even pirate that if it's true.

I would go buy a Mac or just switch over to Linux fully.

~Kujila
#9 Sep 28 2005, 9:03 pm
In response to Kujila (#8)
Agreed, so would 90% of the world, thats why they would never do it.
#10 Sep 30 2005, 7:18 pm
I thought te next Windows to come ut is Longhorn. What's this Vista?
#11 Sep 30 2005, 7:18 pm
In response to CaptFalcon33035 (#10)
If I'm not mistaken, Longhorn was Vista's codename.
#12 Sep 30 2005, 7:19 pm
In response to Popisfizzy (#11)
Correct. Just as 'Whistler' was XP's codename.

~Kujila
#13 Sep 30 2005, 7:26 pm
In response to Kujila (#12)
I'm at the site right now and what's claimed of it is absolutely stunning. I expect the new PC to be nothing less than what it claims to be.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.mspx
#14 Sep 30 2005, 7:27 pm
In response to CaptFalcon33035 (#13)
CaptFalcon33035 wrote:
I'm at the site right now and what's claimed of it is absolutely stunning. I expect the new PC to be nothing less than what it claims to be.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.mspx

Heh. Claims. Half the stuff in vista was meant for windows NT 4. The other half has been cut, or is being backported to Win XP. ;P
#15 Sep 30 2005, 7:52 pm
In response to Jon88 (#14)
Balmer: "This mac osx is sexy"
Gates: "Copy it then"
Balmer: "K"

~Kujila
#16 Oct 1 2005, 4:29 pm
In response to CaptFalcon33035 (#13)
I have a friend who installed the beta of Windows Vista on his computer to try it out. Despite the fact that his computer is quite new, he says all the fancy graphical crap made the OS take up 30% CPU while idling.

WHILE IDLING.

^_^

Sure, it's not optimized yet, but still... that's pretty horrendous. I think I'll stick with XP for now. =P

Apparently some bits of the interface were really weird, and a lot of the shiny "new" features (like symbolic links, which Unix has had for decades) weren't in yet. It can only improve before release, but first impressions were not flattering.
#17 Oct 1 2005, 4:42 pm
In response to Crispy (#16)
Heh, that's why I can't wait for Google OS. Google is known to make things work fast, very fast. =p
#18 Oct 1 2005, 4:52 pm
In response to Crispy (#16)
I hope your friend is a beta tester, otherwise he is not supposed to be using it. Of course if he is, he's not supposed to be talking about it either :P, people never read what they are agreeing too heh.

Anyway slow downs are to be expected its only beta one of a brand new OS. It will get much faster before release when the debug coding is gone, and optimizing is done. You can’t really have first impressions on something that you should not see yet through, and as it being a very early beta, I would wait to an RC before judging it.
#19 Oct 1 2005, 6:50 pm
In response to Xzar (#18)
Yeah, I know it's only a beta, but so far they've got very little to show for such a long development period. =) It didn't even have any visible extra features yet (on top of what XP already has), and they're already calling it beta. Sure, it'll get better, but MS have got a lot of work to do...
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