I know what you are saying, but you are not forced to do so, and rather
would suggest to buy your machines without the OS and install Linux and
retire your old machines for photoshoping and the like like we do. We do not
use XP here at all, still with Windows 2000 for photoshop.
jb
On 30/1/07 17:29, "Bradley Gabe" <withanar(at)stanwinston.com> wrote:
> In the article you posted, it talks about the reality that few users
> intend to upgrade to Vista, and they don't expect many to run to the
> stores and immediately buy it, and it still doesn't matter as this will
> have little to no effect on Vista's ultimate success and profitability.
>
> MS isn't targeting the common user with Vista, it is targeting the PC
> vender, all of whom will be required to install Vista on new Windows
> machines. In essence, this is I and all the people sitting in the room
> with me eventually wound up on XP. None of us did it intentionally, it
> came with our last computer purchase.
>
> -B
>
>> Clearly they must be after letting the pro market go as these new
>> ³technologies² are just not for big companies. Can you imagine a bank
>> updating their thousands of machines because the new graphic interface
>> which anyway looks outdated already?
>>
>> And of course they will have to throw all non-approved hardware as
>> there are no drivers nor will be (driver manufacturers are cherry
>> picked by Microsoft itself)
>>
>> And of course the PA needs 2 Gb of ram for typing letters and sending
>> emails...
>>
>>
>> Can you imagine the impact on the environment? It is just insane no
>> matter how you look at it.
>>
>> jb
>>
>>
>> On 30/1/07 16:33, "Luc-Eric Rousseau" <lucer(at)Softimage.COM> wrote:
>>
>> Vista doesn't AFAIK come on the DVD with genuine OpenGL
>> drivers, they're wrappers around Direct3D.
>> You must install an update to the graphics drivers before
>> install XSI.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-
>> xsi(at)Softimage.COM]On Behalf Of Wessam Bahnassi
>> Posted At: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 10:03 AM
>> Posted To: xsi
>> Conversation: Vista and XSI?
>> Subject: RE: Vista and XSI?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I installed Vista Ultimate x64 on my home machine and
>> I had to remove it right away afterwards. My machine
>> is not super (AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual 3800+, with
>> Geforce6600) but still... XSI gave me a warning
>> during installation that I have no OpenGL driver, and
>> later, I was lucky and managed to run it only once,
>> and the viewports performance was horrible. After
>> that I failed to run it again thanks to SPM (I don¹t
>> know how it ran the first time).
>>
>> On another note, the OpenGL driver in 3dsMax was
>> giving a lot of garbage also? This is using the
>> latest public nvidia drivers that I downloaded three
>> days ago?
>>
>> I¹m not saying it¹s a bad OS, but I prefer to give it
>> sometime instead of being on the front line of people
>> suffering compatibility issues that would go with
>> time.
>>
>>
>>
>> Wessam Bahnassi
>>
>> Microsoft DirectX MVP,
>>
>> Programmer
>>
>> Electronic Arts
>>
>> --
>>
>> 'Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand'
>>
>>
>>
>>
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