jamied
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Hey, me and my bro both wanna buy windows vista ultimate...
Its £114 om ebuyer but is there any way you can get it cheaper and use it on 2 pcs?
seems silly ordering it twice
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WATSON
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Cant you both just use the same copy?
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WATSON
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Also £114 sounds cheap  HAve seen it around on the net for £220+
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jamied
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i am not sure, i dont want crap with it sayin already used serial and that, £114 is good price
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DarkBahamut
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Originally posted by 306CORSA
i am not sure, i dont want crap with it sayin already used serial and that, £114 is good price
You will have to buy 2 copies. When you buy windows you're really paying for the licence to use the software, rather than the media is comes on. A 'family pack' is unlikely to be very much cheaper even if they were offered. The only versions ive ever seen multiple licences available for are the server editions.
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Also £114 sounds cheap HAve seen it around on the net for £220+
OEM Ultimate goes for around £115, retail upgrade around £220 and full retail £330.
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jamied
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oh well looks like will have to order oem version twice then
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Skylined
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i wouldn't touch it for at least another 6 months. they're already workin on sp1
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jamied
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why wait? sp are there to sort out problems
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kz
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i wouldn't touch it for at least another 6 months. they're already workin on sp1
ive been running RC2 for months and have had very little problems 
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ed
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i wouldn't touch it for at least another 6 months. they're already workin on sp1
Under what grounds are you making those comments?
Companys who make software and are serious about it make software. Release it and then work on updates. SP1 will be released in 11 months time.
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flash22
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i have had vista business installed 3 days with 30 hours use. only problem i have come across is with ultramon 2.6 but notin 5 mins with regedit didnt cure
only other thing i have come across windows mail (aka outlook express) i fing useless so i installed outlook 2007 instead
vista has been rock solid with mem usage sitting at 35-40% (1gb installed) it multitasks a lot better than xp ever did too
all in all you need to sit down for a few hours and work your way around it as thing arnt where thay where in xp and lot of stuff in control panel is renamed just to confuse you more
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ed
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Switch to classic mode in Control Panel - makes things easier 
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Rob_Quads
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i wouldn't touch it for at least another 6 months. they're already workin on sp1
Yup similar to the way that every software company out there releases a bit of software and then start working on the fixes that were deemed small enough to ship. EVERY software company does it.
I work on software that ships for 100,000K per license and is used in many of the big big banks but it still ships with lots of known problems
(Well there was talk of the software the Eurofighter uses being one of the only ones in existance that had a 0 defect ship list)
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Solidworks 2004 is on service pack 4.1. Thats CAD software for anyone interested and it was funnily enough released in 2004.
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John
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On the memory front, vista uses so much memory for a reason, not because its badly written.
Why not use all of the available memory if it is sitting there empty?
As soon as something needs it it's freed up.
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Planty02
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I will be looking to upgrade to vista in the coming months but i can get the full version for free thrrough my uni - is there any way the full version can be installed without losing all my software and its functionallity?
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I got Vista Business on a couple of machines and it's fine - most of the drivers came with it, only one or two bits of hardware needed drivers that I had to download and the XP ones worked fine for most stuff. Have 2GB RAM on both machines though.
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Rob_Quads
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Yeah its got a completly new memory model so it learns the sort of things you do and then preloads stuff in so they start much quicker. Obviously ifyou load sometihng that needs lots of ram it clears out stuff you do not have (which takes a fraction of time - loading is whats time consuming)
The most annoying part for me is the fact alot of the versions do not have RDC on them. This is such a useful feature and if i bought a copy it would probably have to be the ultimate as it has the combination of the feature that I would need
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Bart
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quote:
Originally posted by 306CORSA
oh well looks like will have to order oem version twice then
Thats fine so long as your not going to upgrade or if you do, you plan to buy another OS
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Bart
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besides from that, i installed my copy 2 nights ago and went very well.
Set the bios to year 2099 before installation and put it back straight after.
Didnt enter any serials, not asked for any activation and runs windows update fine and dandy 
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jamied
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Just ordered too copies of home premium from ebuyer for £67 each, also u can activate it more than once, there are ways..
[Edited on 12-02-2007 by 306CORSA]
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John
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If you have to go out the way to do stuff you shouldn't be you might as well just dl ultimate imo.
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jamied
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Out my way? mine is going on my laptop so will never need to be changed, and my bros is going on a system that hes building at mo. It not out my way either as XP said all this crap about activation yet my brother has activated it loads of times etc. Plus i cant see it being long before all these copies dont work. I have ultimate on a dvd here but too much of a mess on with it, and theres no downloading of new programs and that off microsoft, so for £67 its not much out
plus the only difference with Ultimate is encryption and networking etc which arent needed
[Edited on 12-02-2007 by 306CORSA]
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BlueCorsa
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Well MS had to delete the activation records for XP every 120 days, so that's why you can keep activating it over and over as long as you wait long enough between doing it. Don't know if they're doing the same thing with Vista or not.
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quote:
Originally posted by Bart
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Originally posted by 306CORSA
oh well looks like will have to order oem version twice then
Thats fine so long as your not going to upgrade or if you do, you plan to buy another OS
WTF? are people just making silly comments for the sake of it? you can install any OEM version as MANY times as you like, however if the motherboard changes you will need to phone them to activate it. Also if you install it so many times you will then need to ring MS and activate it giving a reason for the new install - if you just say the motherboard failed they cant stop you reinstalling it and MUST give you a new license code
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