Vista seems to be a bad idea right now....

[DaForce]

That will be my switching time as well I think

[Paul Oblomov]

Nah. Vista just baaad. Never gonna.
We're using WinServer, so we will continue. Longhorn (da server version) is comin'. Note, that server version of vista is still in beta stage. Microsoft thinks, that it's not ready.... at all. This makes me think, that vista still a "buggie shite". Maybe until SP1 or SPx

[studioDIM]

lol SPx in roman numbers?

I tried the beta of vista under a virtual machine built on my old athlon XP with 1gb of ram.
I don't know if it was the final configuration (in beta only for bugs, not for features), but after switching the hell off (services, gadgets, and anything else one may think of), i managed to have it run without applications within 128 megs of ram.
Of course it then looked, and felt, just like NT4 sp3.

If that's what would allow me to play crysis, bioshock, and a few other good games, i might consider it.

I still remain NOT happy about having to shell dosh to get DX10, and a wee bit of it too.
And i know i ain't alone at this.
Also, i am personally insulted by MS every time it tries and sneak in stuff that runs behind my back without me being any wiser, and that just adds to the mess Vista looks to me right now.
Add to this that MS is having troubles (and bleeding big ones at that) in europe for its software policies (facing something like a couple of million euros a day of fines, retroactive from the last sentence, until it complies. a LOT of money even for them), and that apple-ipod are under fire too for their closed standards, and see where the DRM in Vista are going to head...

This should sum it all up nicely in my case

Lele

[GALACTUS]

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/06/gates.html

Though you gotta be careful with what you read on the internet

What we need is max ported to at least linux, Autodesk seem to very strong in their resolve not to port it

[vlado]

What we need is max ported to at least linux, Autodesk seem to very strong in their resolve not to port it

That would be equivalent to re-writing it from scratch

On the other hand, Maya runs nicely on Linux, and V-Ray does too.

Best regards,
Vlado

[GALACTUS]

Those lazy Autodesk coders must have been hired from microsoft stock heh heh

[studioDIM]

Eh, i remember that back in the days, max 1 was touted as THE app that leveraged the Windows 32 bits power.
Good grief...

Lele

[lukx]

That will be my switching time as well I think

my too