Same for me. However, the next computer I get will probably be before that, so it will probably come with Vista.Darth Wong wrote:I upgraded to XP only when certain games refused to install on win2k. I'll do the same with Vista.
Vista is not off to a good start
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Davis 51
- Jedi Master
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Brains!
"I would ask if the irony of starting a war to spread democracy while ignoring public opinion polls at home would occur to George W. Bush, but then I check myself and realize that
I'm talking about a trained monkey."-Darth Wong
"All I ever got was "evil liberal commie-nazi". Yes, he called me a communist nazi."-DPDarkPrimus
"I would ask if the irony of starting a war to spread democracy while ignoring public opinion polls at home would occur to George W. Bush, but then I check myself and realize that
I'm talking about a trained monkey."-Darth Wong
"All I ever got was "evil liberal commie-nazi". Yes, he called me a communist nazi."-DPDarkPrimus
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Faram
- Bastard Operator from Hell
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That you did.Mr Bean wrote:Who call it? That's right I did!Faram wrote:
No problem, I raided the bar at the launch event..
Well the demo still sucked monkyballs.
BTW anyone whant a job as helprunner? I have to hier one because the old one just quit on me
I really liked her but she is getting *2 the pay at dell so I cannot blame her for quiting.[img=right]http://hem.bredband.net/b217293/warsaban.gif[/img]
"Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. ... If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. ... If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?" -Epicurus
Fear is the mother of all gods.
Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods. -Lucretius
"Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. ... If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. ... If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?" -Epicurus
Fear is the mother of all gods.
Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods. -Lucretius
The MsdnAA at my uni actually only covers the Enterprise edition of Win2k3 and WinXP Pro. And I dont even need shell out an extra cent.Admiral Valdemar wrote:Wait, so the academic licence covers the Ultimate edition (likely the only one worth having anyway) for the discount? I thought they only went with the cheapest version, like XP Home. Least, that's what I recall they offered at my college and uni.
Guess who is placing a request for Vista when uni resumes next year?
They have an online ordering system which emails your student email account when the thing is avaliable complete with reminder notices of when you need to return the media you borrow."Okay, I'll have the truth with a side order of clarity." ~ Dr. Daniel Jackson.
"Reality has a well-known liberal bias." ~ Stephen Colbert
"One Drive, One Partition, the One True Path" ~ ars technica forums - warrens - on hhd partitioning schemes.
"Reality has a well-known liberal bias." ~ Stephen Colbert
"One Drive, One Partition, the One True Path" ~ ars technica forums - warrens - on hhd partitioning schemes.
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Durandal
- Bile-Driven Hate Machine
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Enjoy having nine different ways to turn off your machine.
Damien Sorresso
"Ever see what them computa bitchez do to numbas? It ain't natural. Numbas ain't supposed to be code, they supposed to quantify shit."
- The Onion
"Ever see what them computa bitchez do to numbas? It ain't natural. Numbas ain't supposed to be code, they supposed to quantify shit."
- The Onion
Your forgetting all the keyboard shortcuts too! Never mind the other ways to programmically shut the computer down.Durandal wrote:Enjoy having nine different ways to turn off your machine.
"Okay, I'll have the truth with a side order of clarity." ~ Dr. Daniel Jackson.
"Reality has a well-known liberal bias." ~ Stephen Colbert
"One Drive, One Partition, the One True Path" ~ ars technica forums - warrens - on hhd partitioning schemes.
"Reality has a well-known liberal bias." ~ Stephen Colbert
"One Drive, One Partition, the One True Path" ~ ars technica forums - warrens - on hhd partitioning schemes.
That was the stupidest thing I've seen. Great way of confusing people.Durandal wrote:Enjoy having nine different ways to turn off your machine.