Great Vista cartoon

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http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyimages/915.gif

If only it weren't a joke.

[psychofreak]

If only vendors were like that guy, how many PC World guys would recommend a mac?

[®îçhå®?]

If only vendors were like that guy, how many PC World guys would recommend a mac?

I would if they had accepted me for a job. They dont sell macs there because they dont have any specialist knowledge of them. Oh how i wanted to change that

[Queso]

The PC World on our street sells plenty of Macs. I've always had the feeling that it's to people who know what they want before they enter the shop though :rolleyes:

[psychofreak]

I would if they had accepted me for a job. They dont sell macs there because they dont have any specialist knowledge of them. Oh how i wanted to change that
They sell macs in my local PC World, but they get updated rarely (e.g. Core Duo macbooks...)

[®îçhå®?]

They sell macs in my local PC World, but they get updated rarely (e.g. Core Duo macbooks...)

It does depend on who works at the store. If they have a mac guy, they will probably sells macs but mine doesnt and they probaly arent being updated because no one is buying them

[Jasonbot]

Lol, Maybe if there was a signature edition with ltd. Bill Gates sigs on it. I'd buy that!

[mkrishnan]

Lol, Maybe if there was a signature edition with ltd. Bill Gates sigs on it. I'd buy that!

I think in some places, there were raffles and first copies sold were signed or something like that. I'm sure I read a news article about it....

[ErikCLDR]

Seriously, if you have to think this hard to decide which OS version to buy, how easy is it going to be to use??

maybe they'll come out with some more versions
Vista Special Edition Home
Vista Special Edition Home Premium
Vista Special Edition Business
Vista Special Edition Business Premium
Vista Ultimate Edition Special Edition
Vista Ultimate Edition Special Edition Premium
Vista Premium Home Edition
Vista Premium Biz. Edition
Vista Premium Ultimate Edition


Why are are we calling it Windows Vista, it should be called windows Vistas

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

He-he... I like it... and it's funny because it's true... :D

[someguy]

Seriously, if you have to think this hard to decide which OS version to buy, how easy is it going to be to use??

maybe they'll come out with some more versions
Vista Special Edition Home
Vista Special Edition Home Premium
Vista Special Edition Business
Vista Special Edition Business Premium
Vista Ultimate Edition Special Edition
Vista Ultimate Edition Special Edition Premium
Vista Premium Home Edition
Vista Premium Biz. Edition
Vista Premium Ultimate Edition


Why are are we calling it Windows Vista, it should be called windows Vistas
You forgot Windows Vista Super Duper Edition and Windows Vista Ultimate Ultra Mega l33t hax0rs 3diti0n (no product key or activation necessary). :p

[Project]

bwahaha

[Jasonbot]

You forgot Windows Vista Super Duper Edition and Windows Vista Ultimate Ultra Mega l33t hax0rs 3diti0n (no product key or activation necessary). :p

Um, thats commonly refered to as "Pirated Windows" or "Cracked Windows" sometimes just "Illegal"

[someguy]

Um, thats commonly refered to as "Pirated Windows" or "Cracked Windows" sometimes just "Illegal"
No, I have that already. This is new. Better. Or at least different somehow.. apparently.. or so I'm told.

[phungy]

That comic was excellent. Mind if I save it? :D

[Jasonbot]

No, I have that already. This is new. Better. Or at least different somehow.. apparently.. or so I'm told.

I've actually been living a lie...

Yesterday I was told that every version of Windows is just another GUI for something called DOS!!!??? So can I just get the skin instead of buying the new one? Or have they rewritten this "DOS"? It could just be a Tiger skin for DOS AFAIK, we'll just wait and see.

[Nermal]

They left out my favourite... "Vista Ultimate Edition for Developers with Licences for 10 Computers of Which You Are the Primary User" :eek:

I actually have that one, although it's not actually called that :p

[someguy]

I've actually been living a lie...

Yesterday I was told that every version of Windows is just another GUI for something called DOS!!!??? So can I just get the skin instead of buying the new one? Or have they rewritten this "DOS"? It could just be a Tiger skin for DOS AFAIK, we'll just wait and see.
Don't you know anything? DOS is the base (the "code" if you will) beneath all operating systems, even Linux. Tiger, Ubuntu, and "Windows" are all just names for GUI's written to work with this DOS program, which of course was engineered by the late Bill Gates (who invented Linux as well as electricity).

[Nermal]

I've actually been living a lie...

Yesterday I was told that every version of Windows is just another GUI for something called DOS!!!??? So can I just get the skin instead of buying the new one? Or have they rewritten this "DOS"? It could just be a Tiger skin for DOS AFAIK, we'll just wait and see.

Presumably you're taking about MS-DOS, which was Microsoft's first major operating system. Windows 1, 2, 3 and 4 (95/98/ME) all sat on top of DOS.

Windows NT (including 2000/XP/Vista) sits on top of OS/2 instead of MS-DOS.

[lexus]

So jokes aside how many versions are there?

[phungy]

So jokes aside how many versions are there?

What versions of Windows Vista will be available?

There are five different editions of Windows Vista designed to fit the way you intend to use your PC:

Windows Vista Business
Regardless of the size of your organization, Windows Vista Business will help you lower your PC management costs, improve your security, enhance your productivity, and help you stay better connected.

Windows Vista Enterprise
Windows Vista Enterprise is designed to meet the needs of large global organizations with highly complex IT infrastructures. Windows Vista Enterprise can help you lower your IT costs while providing additional layers of protection for your sensitive data.

Windows Vista Home Premium
Whether you choose to use your PC to write e-mail and surf the Internet, for home entertainment, or to track your household expenses, Windows Vista Home Premium delivers a more complete and satisfying computing experience.

Windows Vista Home Basic
Windows Vista Home Basic is designed to deliver improved reliability, security, and usability to home PC users who just want to do the basics with their PCs.

Windows Vista Ultimate
If you want all of the best business features, all of the best mobility features, and all of the best home entertainment features that Windows Vista has to offer, Windows Vista Ultimate is the solution for you. With Windows Vista Ultimate you don't have to compromise.

One too many :p

[BoyBach]

They sell macs in my local PC World, but they get updated rarely (e.g. Core Duo macbooks...)


At my local PC World (OK, it's about 20 miles away!) they are still selling old (as in not even the latest rev's before the Intel transition) iBooks and PowerBooks at full price.

If they were heavily discounted I'd be buying a 12"!

[phungy]

At my local PC World (OK, it's about 20 miles away!) they are still selling old (as in not even the latest rev's before the Intel transition) iBooks and PowerBooks at full price.

Ouch. I feel sorry for those who actually paid full price for the iBooks/PowerBooks.

[SMM]

You also must consider the retail version, open license, site license and OEM. Do add a multiplier of four to everything.

[BoyBach]

You also must consider the retail version, open license, site license and OEM. Do add a multiplier of four to everything.


Plus the 'download-able' versions that their going to be selling.

[ErikCLDR]

Windows Vista Basic- Only lets you play solitare and use MS word. Solitare can be disabled for childrens user accounts so they are playing with cards.

Windows Vista Senior Citizen Edition- Email and Internet only

Windows Vista "I don't know which one to buy" Edition- costs as much as all the versions combined minus 10%, the best of all worlds

Is there a vista media center edition yet?

[phungy]

Is there a vista media center edition yet?

I want a Vista that can run OSX. Oh wait, my Mac can do that :D

[BoyBach]

Is there a vista media center edition yet?


There is, but it's not called Media Centre Edition. I believe it's the Home Premium Edition.

C'mon, try to keep up, it's all perfectly straight forward! :p

[AvSRoCkCO1067]

Is there a vista media center edition yet?

Premium includes this functionality.

EVERYONE IS FORGETTING THE N-EDITIONS FOR EUROPE!!! :D

[BoyBach]

It's just dawned on me, that we sell PC's/laptops at work.

If someone asks me about Vista, I'm just going to put them 'hold' and go and put the kettle on. Hopefully by the time my cuppa brews they'll be gone. :D

[iMeowbot]

Lol, Maybe if there was a signature edition with ltd. Bill Gates sigs on it. I'd buy that!
Too late (http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-Ultimate-Numbered-Signature/dp/B000M2WPIQ) :p

[dornoforpyros]

Guys it's ok, all those hoping to upgrade to vista can simply take a simple TWENTY SEVEN question test (http://www.londondrugs.com/Cultures/en-US/Content/Library/Computers/Windows+Vista+Questionnaire.htm)!

[ErikCLDR]

There is, but it's not called Media Centre Edition. I believe it's the Home Premium Edition.

C'mon, try to keep up, it's all perfectly straight forward! :p

Media Center -> Premium or Ultimate
Professional -> Business

Maybe they will come out with a Media Center edition made for libraries just to be more confusing.


If I was buying Windows, I would feel ripped off they they cut off features. Its not right you have to pay more to get more.

[OllyW]

I would if they had accepted me for a job. They dont sell macs there because they dont have any specialist knowledge of them. Oh how i wanted to change that

When I bought an ex-demo MacBook Pro from my local PC World, they tried to sell me McAfee Anti Virus for Windows to go with it ;)

[Allstermac]

Heres Vista's new tech support in training:D

[YS2003]

The only thing I am interested in Vista is Aero. How does it fair with Apple's current interface and upcoming Leopard? I think Vista is over-taxing the hardware too much compared to Apple OS X.

[Jasonbot]

Don't you know anything? DOS is the base (the "code" if you will) beneath all operating systems, even Linux. Tiger, Ubuntu, and "Windows" are all just names for GUI's written to work with this DOS program, which of course was engineered by the late Bill Gates (who invented Linux as well as electricity).

Presumably you're taking about MS-DOS, which was Microsoft's first major operating system. Windows 1, 2, 3 and 4 (95/98/ME) all sat on top of DOS.

Windows NT (including 2000/XP/Vista) sits on top of OS/2 instead of MS-DOS.

I guess my sarcasm wasn't hard-pressed enough :confused:

[Abstract]

I bet you there will be more versions added later.

The guys at Microsoft are almost as bad as George Lucas is at reselling Star Wars to every nerd on the planet. Can't wait until "Star Wars Special Super-Duper Retouched Edition" is released on Blu-ray.

[bartelby]

I bet you there will be more versions added later.

The guys at Microsoft are almost as bad as George Lucas is at reselling Star Wars to every nerd on the planet. Can't wait until "Star Wars Special Super-Duper Retouched Edition" is released on Blu-ray.

Not forgetting the "Star Wars Special Unedited Re-edited Unedited Again Super-Duper Retouched Edition" on HD DVD.:rolleyes:

[someguy]

I guess my sarcasm wasn't hard-pressed enough :confused:
Mine either.

[tshakey]

it's gonna b so funny wen ppl go out to buy vista, and are faced with that question, and also the hardware upgrades that are suggested for each version.
i rekon quite a few will just say f**k it, i'm gettin a mac

[MartyMoe]

Guys it's ok, all those hoping to upgrade to vista can simply take a simple TWENTY SEVEN question test (http://www.londondrugs.com/Cultures/en-US/Content/Library/Computers/Windows+Vista+Questionnaire.htm)!


I didn't know modem processor speed was a factor. About 3/4 of the way down:


A modem processor speed of
800MHz [ ] 1GHz 32-bit (x86) [ ] 1GHz 64-bit (x64) [ ]



I'll email them. This is confusing enough already...

[Cassie]

I guess my sarcasm wasn't hard-pressed enough :confused:

I've actually been living a lie...

Yesterday I was told that every version of Windows is just another GUI for something called DOS!!!??? So can I just get the skin instead of buying the new one? Or have they rewritten this "DOS"? It could just be a Tiger skin for DOS AFAIK, we'll just wait and see.

Mine either.

I got someguy's sarcasm, not Jasonbot's. (a smiley:D would've helped)

[Jasonbot]

I got someguy's sarcasm, not Jasonbot's. (a smiley:D would've helped)

:P I'll be more malevolent next time, but thats OK...

[MacBoobsPro]

I showed this cartoon to a PC mate of mine and he went on the defensive. You know usual crap about Windows and OSX.

I let him waffle on for a couple of minutes then I stopped him and said "so which version are you getting?"

"I... er... well... I... Ultimate I think?"

"And will that run on your pentium 3?"

"Er... well.. I... erm..."

:D

I think he's still going now.

er... i... well... yeh but...

[Chundles]

I got someguy's sarcasm, not Jasonbot's. (a smiley:D would've helped)

But a smiley would have given away the sarcasm. Sarcasm works best when those targeted don't realise they're being sarcasmed...

Yes I made up a word.

[Markleshark]

Yes I made up a word.

I like that.

My GF asked me if id spelled 'Choones' (As in the chav way of saying 'Tunes') correctly yesterday, in fact, she challenged my spelling of it come to think of it... It was a made up word. Fool. :rolleyes:

[Mammoth]

Windows Vista Basic- Only lets you play solitare and use MS word. Solitare can be disabled for childrens user accounts so they are playing with cards.

Windows Vista Senior Citizen Edition- Email and Internet only

Windows Vista "I don't know which one to buy" Edition- costs as much as all the versions combined minus 10%, the best of all worlds

Is there a vista media center edition yet?

Don't forget Windows Vista 15-year-old-girl Edition- Automatically opens selected 'social networking' websites and has a custom pink GUI. Includes a bonus chatspeaker so you don't even have to type at all, let alone wrongly. :D

[applemacdude]

Don't forget Windows Vista 15-year-old-girl Edition- Automatically opens selected 'social networking' websites and has a custom pink GUI. Includes a bonus chatspeaker so you don't even have to type at all, let alone wrongly. :D


Dont forget the added addition of either sparkly stars or sparkly hearts that float down the screen...

[G5Unit]

Not forgetting the "Star Wars Special Unedited Re-edited Unedited Again Super-Duper Retouched Edition" on HD DVD.:rolleyes:

HD DVD FTW!

[Cassie]

Don't forget Windows Vista 15-year-old-girl Edition- Automatically opens selected 'social networking' websites and has a custom pink GUI. Includes a bonus chatspeaker so you don't even have to type at all, let alone wrongly. :D

You know us all too well.;)

[zane]

Joy of tech Kicks so much ass

[monke]

I didn't know modem processor speed was a factor. About 3/4 of the way down:


A modem processor speed of
800MHz [ ] 1GHz 32-bit (x86) [ ] 1GHz 64-bit (x64) [ ]



I'll email them. This is confusing enough already...

When you do, present them with two questions:
1) Why is processor speed a factor?
2) Why is it telling me to buy OS X? :p

[evilgEEk]

Don't you know anything? DOS is the base (the "code" if you will) beneath all operating systems, even Linux. Tiger, Ubuntu, and "Windows" are all just names for GUI's written to work with this DOS program, which of course was engineered by the late Bill Gates (who invented Linux as well as electricity).

Mine either.

For me it was the bit about electricity that made it believable. Everyone knows that, right?

I didn't know the man was dead though, that is a would this world will never be healed of.