-- Posted by violaghost at 11:57 am on Jan. 1, 2007 There's already leaks of the Retail Vista Version.... Anyone here uses it? Where did you download it from? The LimeWire results are all BS. How is it? When's the official release date, btw? -- Posted by megadeth at 11:58 am on Jan. 1, 2007 I'd like to try it out lol. -- Posted by Cunning Stunt at 12:00 pm on Jan. 1, 2007 my friends dad has a subscription to the microsoft developers network so he got vista in late december. he said it really sucks. its slow and buggy and DX 9L (vista emulation of DX9) is a pice of poo -- Posted by TheUnrealSlimShady at 12:00 pm on Jan. 1, 2007 I have a legal beta from Microsoft. I stopped using it, though. One day, it went apeshit, said my account had been changed from the internet, and only allowed me to use Internet Explorer. It's no different than Windows XP, it just has a stupid interface, stupid "security" alerts that bother you for everything, and uses an excessive amount of memory. -- Posted by BBallAsh23 at 12:02 pm on Jan. 1, 2007 Not I... I want to wait for all the tweaks to be figured out and corrected first. I'm happy with my win xp right now. -- Posted by Poker Shark at 12:04 pm on Jan. 1, 2007 nope im on windows xp and my laptop has mac osx -- Posted by tait at 12:06 pm on Jan. 1, 2007 Im leaving vista its just xp with a fancy new dress -- Posted by Lulu Nobody at 12:22 pm on Jan. 1, 2007 I heard that it's supposed to be released this January, but I don't remember. Sometime this year. Looks good, but I bet it takes up not only a shitload of memory, but probably wouldn't work well on older computers because of the interface and it just seems... clunky. Some of the features seem interesting, but I definitely wouldn't get it for the computer I have right now. It would just crash >_< -- Posted by Anitri at 8:20 pm on Jan. 6, 2007 I'm not even gonna bother. Too much of a memory hog. -- Posted by AtomicCactus at 9:19 pm on Jan. 6, 2007 I'm waiting for the summer when it is natively supported by the laptops on the market. -- Posted by squirellplayingtag at 8:59 pm on Jan. 8, 2007 I'll get it once hell freezes over. -- Posted by AtomicCactus at 7:25 pm on Jan. 9, 2007 Quote: from squirellplayingtag at 10:59 pm on Jan. 8, 2007 I'll get it once hell freezes over. Yeah, you stick it to the man. -- Posted by Spuddlesworth at 11:24 am on Jan. 10, 2007 30th January I think.  If you want a leak, try looking for torrents. -- Posted by evillsloth at 9:42 am on Jan. 11, 2007 for a leak use torrentspy.com and it will be amazing, its just that all u guys have sh*t computers which cant handle it and are in denial :P -- Posted by Metkil5685 at 10:50 am on Jan. 11, 2007 January 30, 2007 As for getting or having it, I can't I don't meet the minumin of RAM or HDD. *100th Post :P* -- Posted by nicktodd at 7:15 pm on Jan. 11, 2007 well yeah its designed to be more media-oriented, hence the need for high-performance (expensive) computers. at least on the vista suvey MS puts out, there is a question if i think Vista is ready to be released -- Posted by soldierofjustice3 at 2:49 am on Jan. 12, 2007 Im a fan of the *idea* of it. I had the beta, but I ditched it. Bug's in a beta are one thing, but this was excessive. -- Posted by Zw33K3RB0Y at 10:37 pm on Jan. 13, 2007 Quote: from tait at 2:06 pm on Jan. 1, 2007 Im leaving vista its just xp with a fancy new dress Hmmm, I beg to differ. Just like XP was a candy coated version of Windows 2000, it has also had many tweaks under the hood. Vista includes many new tools, and features. Such as... -Side bar (microsoft's answer to apple's dashboard) -Error correction (which rarely works) - Aero theme (a smooth new interface) - any many other things (which I'm lazy and tired ATM, so I don't feel like listing all of them). Over all, I Microsoft did a pretty shitty job on the performance side. They just moved 25% of the virtual memory, to physical memory and called it state of the art technology. -- Posted by tait at 10:44 am on Jan. 14, 2007 Quote: from Zw33K3RB0Y at 6:37 am on Jan. 14, 2007 Quote: from tait at 2:06 pm on Jan. 1, 2007 Im leaving vista its just xp with a fancy new dress Hmmm, I beg to differ. Just like XP was a candy coated version of Windows 2000, it has also had many tweaks under the hood. Vista includes many new tools, and features. Such as... -Side bar (microsoft's answer to apple's dashboard) -Error correction (which rarely works) - Aero theme (a smooth new interface) - any many other things (which I'm lazy and tired ATM, so I don't feel like listing all of them). Over all, I Microsoft did a pretty shitty job on the performance side. They just moved 25% of the virtual memory, to physical memory and called it state of the art technology. Most if them either on a mac or stuff i dont want or indeed need -- Posted by IMPULSE at 6:31 pm on Jan. 28, 2007 i can get free versions of vista from my dad's employment. the only thing is that it's enterprise edition lol -- Posted by espresso8097 at 8:21 pm on Jan. 28, 2007 Quote: from IMPULSE at 8:31 pm on Jan. 28, 2007 i can get free versions of vista from my dad's employment. the only thing is that it's enterprise edition lol So, Enterprise edition may give you better support being that the person who payed for it payed the extra money. -- Posted by dyl at 7:32 am on Jan. 30, 2007 im going to get it but i havent got it yet