Windows Vista Sample Videos

Just as we brought you the wallpapers and the music, here's the sample videos from Windows Vista.

They are decent enough, but not as high res as I had hoped they would be.

Running Vista Games on XP

Is running Windows Vista Games (Minesweeper, Solitaire, 3D Chess) on Windows XP possible? No and perhaps yes.

No

Windows Vista Games (possibly) require DirectX 10 to run. The latest version of DirectX supported on Widows XP is 9.0c. That is, DirectX 10 is exclusive to Windows Vista. Windows Vista Games may also (possibly?) require Vista APIs.

Yes?

Now... where can we find a version of XP with DirectX 10? A hacked version of Windows XP called "XP Black Edition (DVD)". Windows XP Black Edition is (to quote here):

XP on a DVD with plenty of other pirated software included… Software that covers every aspect of day to day computing and even some outside of it…

That claim is supported here. I have not personally verified this claim.

New Vista Fonts

This is a quick follow up to the previous post on fonts. Windows Vista comes with 6 new fonts for the web. There are: Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Consolas, Constantia, and Corbel.

A preview of the fonts are available below:
Download the new vista fonts here.

Windows Vista Sample Music

Bringing you... Windows Vista Sample Music. They are a total of 11 files (in WMA format), across a spectrum of different genres. Get them here.

(Thanks to Pak for this.)

Get a Vista or not

Some say Windows ME stands for Major Errors and Windows XP stands for Extra Problems. How about Windows Vista? Apparently, some people thinks it should be called Very Idiotic System To Abuse.

Recently, a certain beta user, recounts a (standard Microsoft) horror story of how his father got locked out of his laptop running Vista

So virtually my dad was completely shut out of his system. Safe Mode didn't work either. So he tried to go back to his previous network, plugged in and all by since the Network Center was configured for that IP address and network settings that caused the problem in the first place, he was stuck.

Of course, fortunately, its Beta. So lots of excuses? In fact, a reader even commented...

"That man is either extremly brave or extremly stupid... or both." ~ quote from hundreds of movies and books

No offense meant to your dad with that quote, it's just that swapping in a beta anything on your main computer is, like the quote says, a bit brave and a bit... foolhardy.

The moral of the story? Don't try anything labelled "Microsoft" and "Beta".


Beta or not... I guess its an inevitable fact that the first few commands a new computer user learn will continue to be the famed ALT-CTRL-DEL. And I have no doubts that we will continue to see messages like the one below, in Vista.



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