RE: Vista and XSI? Back to VISTA

Date : Thu, 1 Feb 2007 14:48:32 -0700
To : <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
From : "Christian R. Perry" <christianrperry(at)gmail.com>
Subject : RE: Vista and XSI? Back to VISTA
Like I said it's only a matter of time. There will never be the development
momentum for XP 64bit that there will be for Vista. My experience with XP 64
bit was only about half of what I wanted worked. I am hopeful that this will
change with Vista in the not too distant future.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of
Wayne Williams
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 1:58 PM13:58
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Vista and XSI? Back to VISTA

What's the matter with WinXP 64bit?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christian R. Perry" <christianrperry(at)gmail.com>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 12:51 PM
Subject: RE: Vista and XSI? Back to VISTA


> Vista is the 800 pound gorilla in the room that will be hard to ignore. 
> It's
> a war of attrition. It's only a matter of time before XP withers and dries
> up. Sure, there are concerns with Vista but I am sure they will all shake
> out in the end. There are too many people with similar concerns globally 
> for
> this not to happen. My interest in Vista is a solid 64bit windows 
> platform,
> which is the future for me.
>
> Christian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf 
> Of
> Nicolas Langlois
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 12:21 PM12:21
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: Vista and XSI? Back to VISTA
>
> And I remember a firewall software not allowing XSI to run at all as
> well! Very practical and useful. I don't need no one telling me what to
> run and what not to run on my machine.
>
> When the only admin in the world will be located at microsoft HQ and we
> won't even be allowed to choose what we run on our machines for
> security, terrorism, copyrights or whatever reasons they try to blame it
> on, I won't want to be computing anymore! Get people informed, not caged.
>
> niko
>
>
>
>
>
> jordibares wrote:
>> I still remember a anti-virus messing up XSI licensing tool thinking
>> it was spyware. Am I wrong?
>>
>> jb
>>
>>
>> On 1/2/07 18:00, "Luc-Eric Rousseau" <lucer(at)Softimage.COM> wrote:
>>
>>     One would hope, Jordi, that you have enough understanding of
>>     technology
>>     to understand what a spyware removal tool does.
>>
>>
>>         -----Original Message-----
>>         *From:* owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
>>         [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]
>>         <mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM%5D>*On Behalf Of *jordibares
>>         *Posted At:* Thursday, February 01, 2007 12:44 PM
>>         *Posted To:* xsi
>>         *Conversation:* Vista and XSI? Back to VISTA
>>         *Subject:* Re: Vista and XSI? Back to VISTA
>>
>>         BTW, back to VISTA
>>
>>
>>         http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6319845.stm
>>
>>
>>         Or this little extract
>>
>>
>>         "Vista's legal fine print includes extensive provisions
>>         granting Microsoft the right to regularly check the legitimacy
>>         of the software and holds the prospect of deleting certain
>>         programs without the user's knowledge"
>>
>>         And
>>
>>         "Once operational, the agreement warns that Windows Defender
>>         will, by default, automatically remove software rated "high"
>>         or "severe" even though that may result in other software
>>         ceasing to work or mistakenly result in the removal of
>>         software that is not unwanted."
>>
>>         And
>>
>>         "Moreover, he calculated that the technological controls would
>>         require considerable consumption of computing power with the
>>         system conducting 30 checks each second to ensure that there
>>         are no attacks on the security of the premium content."
>>
>>
>>
>>         NICE
>>
>>         jb
>>
>>
>>
>
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