Not freaking, but I believe Microsoft were claiming all their "anti-piracey" work would eventually reduce the cost of the OS. Inflation rate from Vista's intiatal launch is actually
down not up, soooo...
I agree you can't really fault Beta bugs -- but MS made it public.
What is better? Windows 7 code base is Vista so I don't see where you're gonna get a better 64bit OS?? DX10 is in current Vista and for the most part no significant visual difference in games from DX9c. New games coming out (the few) are still DX9c as not many developers are embracing DX10.
I'll be installing Windows 7 RCs and Final, I have to in order to make sure the software I develop works on it, but from what I see it's just Vista SP2 only this time the update isn't free.
But of course I just spent the last 30 minutes organizing my IE favorites with endless security prompts (I have UAC enabled on this PC) because the links were imported from another Vista machine - ugh, what a pile of junk Vista is -- Vista can't tell I initiated the import with my local mouse (pointing device physically connected) under my Admin account so it assumes I need to be prompted on every single link imported, yipee, great work Micro-idiots. Oh and guess what, it's the same issue in Windows 7 Beta. Wooohoo, I can't wait to see this OS flop too.
Does Microsoft actually have any plans on doing a real OS from scratch?? I honestly don't think they can.
What I find really funny -- I was at my gym the other day and my favorite bike machine (has a LCD/computer with tracks where I can login and race other bike machines/people across the internet) was black, just needed plugging in -- guess what it booted into, WinXP!! I was cracking up...even new gym equipment is using good old WinXP.
Rob.