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does anyone know if 3DS max or Solidworks work with vista?

i may upgrade someday......i need $$$ lol

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Can you get software (hopefully Vista soon) through MSDNAA like we can?

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I honestly dont want to sway from the topic, but I just felt the need to say this due some previous swaying:

People pay thousands of dollars on their hardware and then complain about the price of an operating system, but really, without the operating system, you cant use the hardware...

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Remember, that is 6 years of closed-doors employee quality control testing, when only one and a half of those years could be used to test a completed operating system. They basically builtf vista from the ground up, and they didn't do a bad job.
I really don't care about the Mac/PC fights, but I really dislike when someone from one or the other side makes up reasons to hate the other operating system. After all, it did take 'till version 9.3 on OSX for it to be even remotely usable for me. A couple months' wait for Vista to be perfect shouldn't be bad.
As of now, only one out of six people had problems running the software that was asked about in the original post, and that one didn't really cite specific problems, they just showed a dislike for Vista, so I don't think the rest of the world is suffering ;).

Just a few thoughts from yours truly,
-Cody


P.S. I'm not trying to incite an argument with this post, just trying to provide an un-biased opinion of vista.

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You guys are right... I probably was a bit harsh.

Microsoft has worked hard to create the *Ultimate* (no pun intended) operating system. And, being fair to Microsoft, they have a lot more compatibility issues because their software needs to work on any kind of PC with any kind of hardware...

But as far as price... I can understand I high price.. But 4 different prices for 4 different sets of features? We have all been waiting around for this operating system, and now that it's out, we need to pay more for these *extra* features... many of which competitors are bundling with the OS by default. It just seems like Microsoft is losing its competitive edge to companies like Google and Red Hat and Apple... These products hit the same features at a much lower price point.

OK... I'll stop my ranting about Microsoft now. They genuinely have a great operating system and a great team of developers (I know quite a few core developers and a lot of MSDN subscribers...) It just seems that Microsoft doesn't have that bleeding edge software... Like they did back in '95 when no one had ever seen Winnie-The-Pooh come to life.

Jacob

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I got my copy of Vista Business through the MSDNAA. . . It was on our software list the same day it was fully released

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Honestly, I am kind of glad they made different versions. Look at the version comparisons here. I am running Vista Ultimate and Vista Home Basic on two partitions of my hard drive. Home Basic consumes significantly lower resources and I don't really miss any of the features of Ultimate. I'd rather not pay hundreds of extra dollars for many functions I am not going to use. But yes, Vista does require a lot of debugging and many experts agree Microsoft is trying to fade out Windows XP. Regarding losing its competitive edge to other operating systems, Vista's presence is even more out-there than predicted. I guess time will tell us if Microsoft is losing its competitive edge or not.

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Removing features to make a huge, bloated piece of software work better shouldn't require another purchase. Give me XP or XP Media Edition, but none of this Vista BS.

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an old 200 mhz laptop with a real serial port, running windows 98 or 2k, should run the loader ok, that's all you need the serial port for. Unless you also need to run labview for some reason.

So, now that XP is being phased out, I'll have to start using it. And I just got 2000 figured out!

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Go for Vista. Especially if you get it free. I have had about 1% of my programs having compatability problems, but other then that it is great. I really like the software, and I think that you should stick with it. I have Home Premium that I bought on www.academicsuperstore.com for $70 if you are a student or teacher, and I think that I got a pretty good deal. Anyway yah stick with the Vista.

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Don't you already have XP? :p

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FREE VISTA that is LEGAL is the way to go folks...it gets around that whole "pricey" problem ;)

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Of course, if I had to choose, but of course, my main OS is OSX. :p

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I just got a Dell 6400 with Vista pre-installed. The only software glitches I came across is with LabVIEW. The hardware monitor tool won't run when I log in but ti runs fine from the command line. Other than that I've been able to use MPLAB and IFI_Loader with no problems.
I don't care too much for Vista so far so I re-partitioned and added RedHat to the system 8-].
BTW... If you get Vista get at least 2GB of RAM . I purchased mine with only one gig and It's a little slow for my taste (Linux is fine though!).

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Like I said above I have always planned to get at least 2gb of RAM. I'd get 4gb, but that would double the cost of the computer.:(