Win Vista is in stores Tuesday.

Just wondering if anyone was going to buy it or had a reason to do so.

Microsoft propaganda page:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/produc ... fault.mspx

I'm sticking with XP probably unless I get a copy through my work.

Yes, I'll wait until Knuckles co. gets it. Then he can pass me a copy?

lol.. the Microsoft pirate police would find your house by the new GPS signal generated by the pirated key.

Vista messes with sound in many games.

Check the article at IGN:
http://pc.ign.com/articles/759/759538p1.html

No OpenGL support ?? what does that mean for all Quake based games including ET ?

I thought this gave the quick breakdown to me from that article:

Overall, applications performed as expected, or executed slightly slower than under Windows XP. The synthetic benchmarks such as Everest, PCMark05 or Sandra 2007 show that differences are non-existent on a component level. We also found some programs that refused to work, and others that seem to cause problems at first but eventually ran properly. In any case, we recommend watching for Vista-related software upgrades from your software vendors.

There are some programs that showed deeply disappointing performance. Unreal Tournament 2004 and the professional graphics benchmarking suite SPECviewperf 9.03 suffered heavily from the lack of support for the OpenGL graphics library under Windows Vista. This is something we expected, and we clearly advise against replacing Windows XP with Windows Vista if you need to run professional graphics applications.

So why would we want something that so far shows to show slower performance with applications launching compared to XP, cuts off high end sound card performance and drops OpenGL support ?

Because Bill says we want it You better hurry while supplies last!

John Carmack's opinion on Vista :


"It’s a tough thing for Microsoft, where, essentially, Windows XP was a just fine operating system. Before that, there were horrible problems with Windows. But once they got there, it did everything an operating system is supposed to do. Nothing is going to help a new game by going to a new operating system. There were some clear wins going from Windows 95 to Windows XP for games, but there really aren’t any for Vista. They’re artificially doing that by tying DX10 so close it, which is really nothing about the OS. It’s a hardware-interface spec. It’s an artificial thing that they’re doing there. They’re really grasping at straws for reasons to upgrade the operating system. I suspect I could run XP for a great many more years without having a problem with it."

"I suspect I could run XP for a great many more years without having a problem with it."

not really... in a few years MS will drop support for security patches when the OS is no longer officially supported. Then you will be forced to either upgrade or be exposed to security issues in the OS. If I remember right it's something like 7 years or somewhere around there before an OS is no longer officially supported by MS.