http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/ Engadget Comments for Microsoft beams out Vista SP1 to beta testers http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/Sep 24th 2007 5:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/
wow - that totally blows me off. HOW FUTURISTIC! chosing which volume to defragment - now that's a completely new invention. thank you microsoft for giving us the future today!]]>Sep 24th 2007 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/Sep 24th 2007 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/Sep 24th 2007 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/
Technically, you are correct as most other OSes being Unix based have no need for a separate, legacy defragmenter. They auto-defrag/organize the file system on the fly.


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You are aware that Vista -also- defragments systems on the fly, right?]]>Sep 25th 2007 4:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/
Well.. Other than through BitTorrent?]]>Sep 24th 2007 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/
I thought vista was supposed to be all great and everything. I'm kinda glad I bought 2 games for my 360 intead of buying Vista.]]>Sep 24th 2007 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/Sep 24th 2007 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/
Plus theirs no guarantee any product is gonna work great, even when u have beta testing, there will always be a problem with someone,]]>Sep 24th 2007 10:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/
Well, you know.. Other than BitTorrent?]]>Sep 24th 2007 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/Sep 24th 2007 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/
I was thinkin the same this bro, hahah]]>Sep 24th 2007 10:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/
And w00t for the service pack!]]>Sep 24th 2007 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/Sep 24th 2007 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/
an OS that makes my computer transfer files slower than a 486 is pointless to me.]]>Sep 24th 2007 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/
Ah, exactly why I'm jumping ship to Mac OS Leapord and a Macbook Pro, I'll put Vista on it for Crysis but that's all as the problems Vista has are a lot and I can't be arsed with it anymore, what I do with my PC has changed and I don't need Windows anymore - apart from for Crysis but it MAY come out for the Mac seeing as Gears Of War is?
But it's the same old story, wait a year or two before buying any new MS OS as it may be stable by then.]]>Sep 24th 2007 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/Sep 24th 2007 9:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/Sep 24th 2007 11:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/"Why jump to a Mac when you could just jump back to XP?"

WHY GO BACK TO XP, WHEN YOU COULD JUST GO BACK TO DOS?

OR WHY USE A COMPUTER AT ALL, IF YOU ARE GOING TO GO TO MAC? YOU COULD ALWAYS USE AN ABACUS.

what I read by your statement is:
I'VE NEVER ACTUALLY SPENT ANY TIME ON A MAC, BUT IT SUCKS BECAUSE I DO NOT KNOW SHIT ABOUT IT, THEREFORE WILL STEER EVERYONE FROM IT.]]>Sep 25th 2007 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/
I'll be downloading it later.]]>Sep 24th 2007 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/
When I researched it a couple of months ago they appeared to have issued some sort of intenral memo dictating what people could say about the issue. All the responses I saw on newsgroups were eerily similar and all void of MS taking any stance even remotely akin to an admittal of an issue.

I'm guessing it's a problem they have deemed unfixable without throwing out some giant core peice of code.]]>Sep 24th 2007 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/]]>Sep 24th 2007 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/Sep 25th 2007 2:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/
sarcasm.]]>Sep 25th 2007 3:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/Sep 24th 2007 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/
Anyway. I'm going to check if they've approved my beta later today but rather than giving me better defrag tools, please for the love of God improve your backwards compatibility with pre-Vista devices, Microsoft.]]>Sep 24th 2007 10:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/Sep 25th 2007 3:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/

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Please be gone.]]>Sep 24th 2007 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/Sep 24th 2007 8:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/Sep 24th 2007 10:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/
"OK guys, we're going to release OSX Leopard next week...errr...next month...OK, a few months time...we'll release it when we bloody feel like it OK!"

Maybe I'm a lucky one, but apart from 1 driver that I was missing and was one month after Vista's launch before it was released (and that was the fault of the individual company not Microsoft), I have had practically NO problems with Vista (apart from the calender crashing occasionally which was fixed in an update a few months back), and find it intuitive to use, and it doesn't get in the way of me doing my day to day tasks...which is basically what you want from your operating system.]]>Sep 25th 2007 5:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/

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Apparently, it's to do with appeasing the Googles or something.]]>Sep 24th 2007 6:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=713]]>Sep 24th 2007 7:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/Sep 24th 2007 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/Sep 24th 2007 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/
Ahh... good old reliability. It's like an old pair of jeans or shoes. Always the same.]]>Sep 24th 2007 7:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/Sep 24th 2007 7:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/Sep 24th 2007 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/
Either disable UAC completely, or go to the manager and authorize specific processes that weren't written (or were poorly written) for Vista.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Account_Control#Configuration

Quit complaining.]]>Sep 24th 2007 8:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/Sep 24th 2007 7:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/Sep 24th 2007 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/
oh btw thats my preference for zip files... both zipping and unzipping...]]>Sep 24th 2007 10:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/
UAC can be easily turned off.


linux has horrible responsiveness and cpu-scheduling. freebsd beats it hands down and so does consumer versions of windows. vista had a rough start in terms of responsiveness but a current and patched vista is right back there with xp while adding lots of powerful and useful improvements...

stop lame vista-bashing. its clear u guys wanna hate the top dog in the market, but take a look at it before u bash it. vista is currently the best choice for the consumer who can afford modern hardware. (dual core/ 2gb ram)]]>Sep 24th 2007 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/microsoft-beams-out-vista-sp1-to-beta-testers/Sep 24th 2007 10:24PM