http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/ Engadget Comments for 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/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/
Also: "...more hyped updates in recent history"

Is this a joke? Because uhh... http://www.engadget.com/search/?q=leopard]]>Feb 7th 2008 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/
Been running Vista x64 for quite a while now, haven't had an issue. Not that big of an improvement over XP, but still better.
The biggest issue is really the lack of x64 support from some vendors, like Canon and Sony. Of all things, photo and video applications should be among the first adopters to 64-bit for its humongous memory space. But not so...]]>Feb 7th 2008 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/
if it gets released early, then there is a time where systems are running w/o the service pack, pending fixes for third party software, and these systems are suseptible to attack.

nice try by microsoft but they should know better.. that crazy plan would never work.]]>Feb 7th 2008 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 8th 2008 5:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/
1) It costs nothing to begin with.
2) They will be releasing it for the masses in the near future.
3) They will push it on the masses a few months later.]]>Feb 7th 2008 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/
I say let users download it (not on Windows Update until March) and let the sysadmins actually *administer* their network by setting a policy that disallows the update until they are ready.]]>Feb 7th 2008 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/
It's not stealing and neither is copying any software. It's copyright infringement, and in this case it probably still is.]]>Feb 7th 2008 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 8th 2008 11:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/
(insert sarcastic comment here)]]>Feb 7th 2008 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Because it's there.

Thank goodness for Dell.
....and Ubuntu Hardy, while still in alpha, is /awesome/.
The sad thing is, our 'alpha' is about the quality of microsoft's released software. ...but the KDE team doesn't use 'alpha', they just give stuff numbers ^_^ (and I really am just fine with that)]]>Mar 4th 2008 10:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/
I think that Engadget just wrote this up a bit sloppily as it was not all that easy to gather all the information from this post.]]>Feb 7th 2008 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/
Of course if you get caught downloading the software, it would be pretty hard to prove that you never intended to use it without a legit license.]]>Feb 7th 2008 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/
Why fight your own users? Microsoft reminds me of the RIAA... they think they have this big fight against piracy, but actually they just... don't... get it.

Would they rather have us use a pirated copy of Windows or Apple OSX? Seriously.]]>Feb 7th 2008 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/
Pirating a Service Pack is what the story is about... what part don't you get? JK I don't care.]]>Feb 7th 2008 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 26th 2008 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/

]]>Feb 7th 2008 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/
I am sure all the big boys who download will know what they are doing, and they will already have their system backup before they upgrade.

no reason for you to get that third zune tattoo.]]>Feb 7th 2008 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/
]]>Feb 7th 2008 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/
it's really funny when i get shit from my Mac fanboy buddies when i tell them that i actually really like vista.

i've had no problems what so ever (except for a somewhat slow loading Network Connections admin panel which i think someone else mentioned). for the most part, i still feel like i'm using xp, except that over time i run across a little added feature here and there that makes my life easier (vs. using xp). i feel like vista is alot closer to the sweet spot of addressing the prosumer. tweaking any kind of settings is much easier. connecting to various networks is a snap. windows explorer features/functions work great. (for people that hate the frequent UAC pop up, you can turn that off. google it.)

prior to my new laptop, i ran XP for a few years on a 1GB, 3GHz desktop. like many people, was skeptical about getting a vista machine because i really liked XP. it worked really well for a long time for me. (i used Window Blinds which basically already gave me the "vista glass look" for several years, so the somewhat improved look of vista wasn't really a selling point for me.) but now that i've been using it for a month, i actually find that it's more stable than my xp desktop machine, with many pleasantly surprising little added features.

so i just don't see it. why people think vista sucks. i guess i could potentially see 2 camps of people thinking it sucks: (1) the really really techy types that can nit pick about something or another that really doesn't affect the average user at all and (2) the people that are so in love with the Mac OS cartoonish UI/eye candy that they will bash anything that doesn't "look" like the Mac OS.

so i guess the bottom line is, get a powerful enough computer to run vista. i laugh when people talk about installing vista on an older machine. why would you do that anyway? seems like if xp is running fine on your old machine, it's an awful lot of trouble to install a new OS that's been well documented to not run well on a slower/lower memory machine.

on a side note, i just got a free iPod classic recently and am setting up iTunes. one guestion. why the hell can't i simply monitor multiple folders for new music? to me, this is the most basic convenience feature a music player can offer. when i asked my Mac buddy, he was totally perplexed by the question... also, why does the same album show up multiple times on my ipod when browsing by album? bleh. think i'm going back to using the Zune. the iPod does look nice though. i'll give it that much.

peace all,

Robert

]]>Feb 7th 2008 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/Feb 7th 2008 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/vista-sp1-riding-the-torrents-breaking-ballmers-heart/I personally don't care. I've been running RC SP1 since December. As far as I know the feature set in the final release is set and the RC is solid. So whatever. I just need to figure out how to slip stream it. The original concept of dropping the file in a directory on the DVD won't occur until SP2. So I hope there is a method similar to XP's slipstreaming update.]]>Feb 7th 2008 10:57AM