Hi all,
How many of you going to buy Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 ?
I am thinking to buy it. but not enough money to buy it now. may be after a year I will do.
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Hi all,
How many of you going to buy Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 ?
I am thinking to buy it. but not enough money to buy it now. may be after a year I will do.
I will buy vista as well as office 2007 soon.
I'm not going to buy it...
I think I'll buy Vista, but ill never ever buy office!
I'm not buying either! I'm not that keen on Vista and Office 2003 does the job just as good as 2007 :thumb: The only new product i am interested in from Microsoft is Expression Web which seems to be really good from what i have seen.
Been thinking about getting a laptop, which now means it would probably
come with Vista already.
Only problem is I have been looking around and it seems I can get a Vista
loaded laptop for less than I would have to pay for VS 2005 Pro. :eek2:
Doesn't seem right.
:afrog:
A mate of mine wrote his entire school assignment using Word 2007, since he didnt have a printer he had to print it in school, but documents made in 2007 doesnt seem to be backwards compatible, so he had to re-write everything on an older version of office. Pretty useful then eh?
im not going to buy it, i think i will end up with it one way or the other
I not going to buy it, or get it for that matter. I have it and I hardly ever used it.
Much prefer linux and windows xp over windows vista
Out of pure curiosity, why did he not use Save As and change the Save As Type?Quote:
Originally Posted by Atheist
:afrog:
Dunno, maybe too logical for him seeing as the older Office versions are the same.
I dont know :eek: Perhaps he's stupid :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Torc
What if something like that happens with some more important stuff. Like a businessman making a powerpoint presentation to show on the next meeting with the bosses, and then he cant get it to start :lol:
buy it :confused:
:D
Is that a small insinuation rory :lol:
Well Fedora 7 Test 1 was released last week so I'll probably start upgrading to Fedora Core 6 pretty soon.
yep, after someone gives me an original CD i may drill a hole in it and hang it from my rear view mirror .. :D
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by rory
do not have so much money :cry:
Please Give me also :wave:Quote:
Originally Posted by rory
Not me. XP is the last version of Windows that I intend to use at home.
Then you fire that person for not having the insight to figure out what platform was needed to pull off the show!Quote:
Originally Posted by Atheist
The WORD doc could have been saved to PDF with any of the available pdf print drivers (most of which are free) and be completely O/S and platform independent...
lets face it... unless you plan on moving to linux or mac, you will HAVE to get vista at some point... I suppose you could wait for the NEXT Microsoft OS, but that will likely be at LEAST 5-6 years, and who knows what direction computers will be going in by then.
It is getting harder to get "illegal" copies, so you will have to either buy it, or get an OEM copy with a new machine.
It is funny though, because I remember people having the same conversation about XP, how they would never move to XP, and 2000 was good enough for them..
So I think the same thing will happen, everyone gives vista the cold shoulder at first, and then they will warm up to it, and they will not want to go back to using XP.
As for the original question though, I got a copy of Vista Ultimate for reporting bugs during the beta testing of Vista. Pretty nice of MS if you ask me.
I also have an MSDN subscription, which will give me a legit copy of Office 2007 to install ;)
I just read a ComputerWorld article on how bad an idea it is to get a Vista upgrade edition.
Problems like having to re-install XP/2000 to then install Vista if you have a disk failure
...or simply buying a new PC that has hardware that doesn't support XP in the future
Keeping track of your old XP/2000 Cd's...
(I also have MSDN subscription - so I'll install both when the time and "hardware" in the office allows me to)
Hardly. Pirating software used to require skill, now kids can find a torrent in a few seconds.Quote:
Originally Posted by kleinma
Apparently you can upgrade to Vista from Vista!Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
Yes - the article mentioned that - but apparently MS has not confirmed that it's a legitimate method of getting around the upgrade requirements...Quote:
Originally Posted by penagate
They might just shut that door in the future.
yeah but what do they do with it after they download it?Quote:
Originally Posted by penagate
I haven't seen anything (yet) that can get around the WGA activation features of Vista.
I am not saying its uncrackable, but its getting a bit harder. Sure its easy to get the software, but I am talking about the license.
I'll probably wait till at least after the first service pack is released before i start looking into it.
From my initial use of Vista, I have found the biggest problems to be the lack of good drivers from other companies, and less with Vista itself.
MS is planning a service pack for later this year. Which will probably combine all the automatic updates from now until then, plus whatever other things they have finished, but could not get out the door for build 6000.
All in all, I think many of the "new" features in vista won't be realized until apps come out to really take advantage of them.
I think its best probably to just wait until you need a new computer - then you'll get Vista.
Otherwise, XP Pro works with all my hardware - and for development purposes our shop won't be going to Vista anytime in the near future - probably 2 years out.
I agree with kleinma, Me personally I will be getting Vista but am not in a particular rush at the moment, Will most likly get a new PC mid this year so I expect it to come pre-loaded.
If you say your shop will not be going to Vista, will your clients? Thats when the issues could arise!
unless he only writes code for internal use ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pino
I miss the days when I did that :cry:
I go some time but I just boght a new laptop in July last year so I'm not in a big rush to replace it. We write apps that are used in Nuclear Power Plants and they are normally pretty slow to change OS's. They might wait 2 or 3 years after an OS is released to change.
[notserious]OH DEAR LORD OUR NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS RUN ON WINDOWS!!![/notserious]
:lol:
Agreed. It doesn't take a genius to copy a few discs and start raking in the green. Way back when there were only certain people who could do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by penagate
With the internet being like it is, as penagate stated, people can download torrents, or even download the full applications from p2p software in a matter of minutes. Limewire had an issue a while back when they released Limewire pro and sold it on their website, everybody download the basic version of limewire and downloaded the Pro version from the free version. Limewire made didly squat!
Piracy is as common as sand on a beach nowadays and its just getting easier.
It's been cracked for a while now.
As usual I will wait, upgrade when it is known to be stable and useful
After I get my MS in Accounting then my CPA I think I can safely dump Windows since I won't need it to practice new coding skills for work. :wave:Quote:
Originally Posted by kleinma
Our shop does public facing web sites - www.coldwellbanker.com, www.coloradohomes.com, www.camoves.com - therefore, moving to Vista OS adds nothing for us productivity wise and changes nothing development wise.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pino
@nemaroller, Sounds like you would then depend more on the user runing IE 7 then.
I have been running Vista for 2 months now and I havent come across any real bugs. Just the annoying UAC security feature.
Office 2007 is great. No bugs what so ever. :thumb:
Yes Space Monkey I'm serious most plants run on Windows server for 95% of the apps the use.
We test against IE7, IE6, Firefox, and Safari. Since most of the sites stayed away from CSS and use a table layout, they most all look similiar in different browsers.Quote:
Originally Posted by RobDog888
Since IE7 works on XP, there is no relevant (productivity, technical, or financial) reason to upgrade to a spanking new Microsoft OS for web development.
My end concerns itself more with the evolving battle over web 2.0 platforms, and who will win that battle - Microsoft's WPF plug-in or Adobe's Apollo (or Flex 2.0 via Flash player) . Right now, I'm hedging on Adobe since they exist on all non-Windows platforms as well.
Here's an example of the Flex platform (runs with CF as the backend but does not matter what server side technology you use (Java, CF, or .NET)
http://www.asfusion.com/apps/homelocator/