Morning Malcolm, >> I haven't used Windows Vista myself, as yet. Nor have i, but from reviews and what I've seen so far :
There are a number of versions. All expensive. The changes that MS vaunted for ages have all failed to make it into the finished product. The new Vista differs from the old XP etc in mainly conmetic ways only. It kills your iPod if you connect it up - there's supposed to be a patch but Apple have warned people about connecting iPod's to Vista. It was 'forced' to have DRM installed so that you and I couldn't play HD DVDs on our PC if our interfaces had an HDMI output socket. The Movie world is scared of people copying DVDs using this. MS is scared of the movie industry. What happens is that the code checks for an HDMI output and if found, degrades the quality of the DVD to normal DVD quality so you cannot watch it in HD quality on your PC. Personally, if I buy a DVD of any quality I expect and demand to play it wherever i want thank you. This makes Vista illegal in Australia and New Zealand where they have laws to protect the rights of the purchaser - even 'region encoded' DVDs are illegal down under. You will most likely need a hardware upgrade to use it properly. Varios industry surveys have deemed that for a business to upgrade their systems to Vista would cost about £350-450 on average BEFORE adding in the cost of Vista. Most of the 'improvements' have been in various versions of Linux for over 2 years. Remember all the hype over Windows 95 and what an expensive upgrade that was? Worse for Vista. Of course, with the costs of new hardware and additional licencing as well, and because we in the 'agency' need to save money, there is a project already started that is looking into 'upgrading' us all to Vista. Ah well, which part of saving money am I not understanding here ? >> Is it a total code re-write of the Windows code, or does it still >> contain all of the legacy elements of WIN 95, WIN 98, WIN 2000, WIN >> XP, etc ... ? Yes - the legacy stuff is still there. >> Finally, are any of the QL Emulators now able to run under it ? I'm pretty sure QPC does, but I have a vague recollection of Marcel posting something here a while back about Vista. I can't remember what though ! Cheers, Norman. PS. My spell chequer thinks your surname is wrong and should be 'Badman'. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
