Het grote Windows Vista topic [Deel 6]

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Op vrijdag 5 januari 2007 17:07 schreef Barney.Stinson het volgende:
Wanneer komt ie nou eigenlijk officieel in Nederland uit?

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Op woensdag 3 januari 2007 20:49 schreef Misanthropist het volgende:
ik heb gisteren ergens gelezen dat vista maanden uitgesteld gaat worden, iemand enig idee waar?

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Op woensdag 3 januari 2007 21:03 schreef Netsplitter het volgende:

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Ga jij je alsjeblieft eerst even inlezen in de veranderingen die er in zitten tegenover XP...
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Totale onzin..
Tenzij het op een zeer betrouwbare site staat, bv die van Ms zelf...

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Op zondag 31 december 2006 09:34 schreef mschol het volgende:

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omdattie onder windows ook prima draait en iis een vies product is?

en ik wil me mederwerker windows Vista versie kunnen kopwen via slim

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Op woensdag 3 januari 2007 20:49 schreef Misanthropist het volgende:
ik heb gisteren ergens gelezen dat vista maanden uitgesteld gaat worden, iemand enig idee waar?

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Op vrijdag 5 januari 2007 21:43 schreef KumA het volgende:
Wanneer gaat er een Orbit/Live TV versie komen die we echt kunnen gebruiken? of is die er al?

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Op vrijdag 5 januari 2007 21:56 schreef maartena het volgende:

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Wat is dat?

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Op vrijdag 5 januari 2007 21:59 schreef KumA het volgende:
Messenger/spaces/calls voor media center

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So why did Vista take so long? Microsoft will tell you that Vista has really only been in active development since mid-2004, when it "reset" the original Longhorn project and restarted development on the Windows Server 2003 code base. I'd argue that this is a convenient misstatement of the facts: Windows Vista is Longhorn and Longhorn is Windows Vista. In short, Microsoft did take five years to bring Longhorn--sorry, Windows Vista--to market.

As it turns out, the reason why is simple. Microsoft screwed up, plain and simple. Each version of Windows is based on the version that came before it and because Windows Vista was envisioned as a kitchen sink release that would include every major new feature imaginable, it eventually teetered and fell under the weight of the technology Microsoft was heaping upon it. That Vista is now based on the Windows Server 2003 code based and not that of Windows XP is meaningless. When the project started, back in 2001, it was based on Windows XP

After the reset, Microsoft scaled back the Vista feature-set dramatically and ensured that features were added in a more logical fashion. The two year development time that Microsoft refers to in this case is the most recent two years, the period of time during which Vista got back on track. This is a period of time that Microsoft should be justifiably proud of. The previous three years? Trust me, we'd all like to forget that.

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Consider a Vista Upgrade version

For example, if you'd to upgrade your existing PC from Windows XP (or, in a more limited fashion, Windows 2000 or Windows XP Professional x64 Edition) to a comparable Windows Vista product edition, you can take advantage of the lower cost of a Vista Upgrade version. While I spell out the full details of this process in my showcase, Can You Upgrade to Windows Vista?, it works like so:

People with older Windows versions (9x, Me, NT) do not qualify for upgrade pricing. Windows 2000 and XP x64 users do qualify for upgrade pricing, but they cannot do an inplace upgrade. Instead, they will need to use an Upgrade version of Vista to perform a full-install of the product. Windows XP users, meanwhile, qualify for upgrade pricing and can perform an in-place upgrade (which I don't recommend) or a full install of Vista using an Upgrade version. (I discuss both methods of installing Windows Vista in the next part of this review.)
Express Upgrade

If you buy a new PC with XP preinstalled between October 26, 2006 and March 15, 2007, you may qualify for a free or inexpensive "cross-grade" to Windows Vista thanks to Microsoft's Vista Express Upgrade program. Again, I've written an article explaining this promotion in detail, but the gist is that customers who purchase PCs with Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, Professional Edition, Tablet PC Edition 2005, or XP Professional x64 Edition during this timeframe can get a free or reduced-price copy of a comparable Vista product edition. Those who purchase a PC with XP Home Edition preinstalled qualify for half-price upgrades to Windows Vista Home Basic or Home Premium (their choice).

Fifth, each Windows Vista product edition ships with the exact same DVD.


Upgrade mogelijik?



What do you need?
_{Second, you'll want to make sure that your existing PC has the horsepower needed to run Windows Vista. While a Celeron-based PC with 256 MB of RAM might have squeaked by for Windows XP, that's not going to cut it with Windows Vista. Microsoft's official minimum requirements for Windows Vista are so ludicrous I won't even mention them here. Suffice to say, you're going to need a PC with a minimum of 1 GB of RAM, a modern Core Duo, Core 2 Duo, or Athlon 64 X2 processor, and a mid-level graphics card in order to get the full Vista experience. And if you're into heavy multitasking, game playing, or graphics/video work, as I am, 2 GB of RAM seems to be the new sweet spot. Don't freak out over these recommendations, however. The most important consider here is RAM, and that's typically very inexpensive these days. Don't get sucked into the horror stories about Vista needing high-end video cards, either: That's hogwash. Vista's Windows Aero user interface runs just fine on virtually any video card with dedicated video RAM, and even on some low-end integrated graphics chip sets. Unless you have a low-end laptop, upgrading the video card is inexpensive and easy.}


Dual-boot. If you're not sure how well Vista is going to work on your existing hardware, consider dual-booting between Windows Vista and your current OS


Look and feel

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When you first boot into your Windows Vista desktop for the first time, you will be struck by the wonderfully professional-looking translucencies of the new Start Menu, taskbar, windows, and other onscreen elements. On-screen windows, especially, appear to pop onto the screen, and thanks to glass-like translucency effects, they visually appear to hover over other windows and objects, giving a sense of depth that was missing from previous Windows versions.

I should point out here that Vista isn't the first mainstream operating system to provide these types of effects: Apple's Mac OS X has offered similar functionality since 2001, and over the years, Apple has been able to refine its OS' visual appearance thanks to experience and feedback. In Windows Vista, we're getting Microsoft's "1.0" attempt at this type of interface, and the immaturity shows in windows that are, perhaps, a bit too translucent, with muddy fade-through of windows lower in the z-order. But Vista provides a few niceties that Mac OS X, even in its most current form, does not. For example, thanks to a handy Control Panel applet, users can apply different color schemes to the glass-like user interface and even turn up or tune down the translucency effects, or just turn them off all together. As is often the case, Apple supplies a nice default look and feel, but very few customization features. Meanwhile, the default look and feel in Windows is nice, but it can be almost infinitely modified to the whims of each users. I feel the second approach is superior.

In any event, the new Windows desktop, with its translucencies and other effects, is a warmer, more welcoming place than that provided by previous Windows versions.

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The Windows User Experience team at Microsoft had long planned to come up with a set of high-quality, near-photographic system icons in order to take advantage of Vista's new Extra Large Icon style, which dramatically increases the native (and maximum) size of Windows icons from 64 x 64 pixels to 256 x 256 pixels. (Mac OS X's icons, long the standard for graphical quality, are 128 x 128 pixels, incidentally, or one-quarter the resolution of Vista's icons.)

The final Vista icons, which weren't added until very late in the development of the product, are extremely attractive, if a bit on the orange side, owing to a decision to base the icon designs on the default Windows Vista logon icon, which is an orange flower. They also reinforce the glass-like design of the Windows Aero user interface. For example, the Windows Calendar icon features a calendar on a glass-like stand; the Windows Mail icon now includes a stack of mail held in a glass container. And so it goes.

Whether the new icons are to your liking or not, you have to admit they're new looking and of high quality. And ultimately, that's the goal: Windows Vista should, at every possible turn, remind you that you're using something new, even if what it does--run applications--works just as with Windows XP.

Vista also includes new document icons, which often provide a live preview of the underlying document. So if you've got a Word document, text document, or a PowerPoint presentation (and in the case of Office applications, have Office installed), the icons for these data files will feature live previews, giving you a peek at the underlying documents. And if you have Windows Vista's new Explorer Preview Pane open, you will see the actual document displayed there. It's pretty impressive.

UI Overview
http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winvista_05.asp

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Op zondag 7 januari 2007 00:31 schreef siekman het volgende:
nou ik heb de eerste pc al voorzien van een ultimate NL install.

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Op maandag 8 januari 2007 01:16 schreef Barney.Stinson het volgende:

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Zijn er al NL versies 'uit'?

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Op maandag 8 januari 2007 21:15 schreef Robin2130 het volgende:
waar kan je die Vista eigenlijk krijgen?

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Op maandag 8 januari 2007 21:15 schreef Robin2130 het volgende:
waar kan je die Vista eigenlijk krijgen?

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Op maandag 8 januari 2007 22:02 schreef siekman het volgende:
Ik hoop alleen dat hij die key ook gauw online zet , want die activator is echt klote .

Ik heb denk ik al 6 verschillende cracks geprobeert maar werken doet het niet helaas

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Op maandag 8 januari 2007 21:59 schreef Misanthropist het volgende:

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via mijn opleiding kan ik 'm via www.e-academy.com downloaden en krijg ik een key van mijn opleiding

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Op maandag 8 januari 2007 19:58 schreef siekman het volgende:
ja maar ik hou niet zo van kopen , maar ik heb de msdn versie gekregen ( download ) en deze maand krijg ik als het goed is de valeu key

Ik wil altijd de meest uitgebreide versie ( ik weet nl nu nog niet wat ik morgen wil )