Uh... ya. I joined Gmail with no invite something like 6 months ago. Still had the text message bit. I don;t know why this is "news", seeing as how it has been public for nearly a year...
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OK, dnagroove, thats great that you like Vista. I and other people who actually "use" computers will stick with XP or jump to the technically more advanced and not nearly as crash-prone OS/X. I don't want to make this into a big deal or anything, I just think that Vista is not really doing anything new that I can appreciate. I have a right to share that with this community, even if some people do have their heads up Bill Gates' Ass. That is the point of comments, to discuss opinions abo
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This article has really opened my eyes to one thing: Vista is basically the same thing as XP, but with more random annoyances and really just a pretty new face. I can't see any real benefit to Vista from the articles you have made thus far, except for maybe a few handy tools. Unfortunately, the rest is kicked in the knees and thrown in, allowed to limp on with Windows. I think that the phase-out of XP is probably what will cause my next computer to be a Mac. Sorry if this offends anyone, but I s
The main problem I see, after doing a lot of research into Mac OS and others, is that Windows uses outdated file systems (NTFS). It also uses 32 bit programming. From the sounds of this article, Vista is only making a half-assed attempt to come up to date. Macs use EFI, are 64-bit (and have been for quite some time), and are generally less of a problem then windows. Perhaps Microsoft can learn from the utter simplicity of a mac, which don't have securi
From what all I have read about on this post, Vista seems like the devil and the Man rolled into one. I remember the days when computers did exactly what they were told to do--that's the point, right? Vista seems to be a bloated, over-played, and un-necessary "upgrade". More than 1 512 MB just to boot? 20,000 plus handles? Jesus. We are doing this all for what? A prettier picture? I know that talking crap about a UI on a skinning site is tabboo, b