Gates: Vista is doing just fine

[iambecomelife]

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

Vista needs to be on a stable PC. 2gigs of ram is minimum but 4gigs is better, a friend has vista 64bit running on 8gigs of ram it flies and the problems he use to have when running on 3gigs disappeared. Vista needs power to run or it will fall over get use to it though as upcoming future windows OS's will be the same.

They're using it as the basis for future OS's? Please no. Vista's the perfect example of fixing what ain't broke - change just for the sake of change.

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by iambecomelife

They're using it as the basis for future OS's? Please no. Vista's the perfect example of fixing what ain't broke - change just for the sake of change.

Yea its the speed at how technology is moving, every 6 months the cpu ups a few mhz the gfx card/mobos etc.,. OS's is the same i remeber when going from win95/98 to winxp i found so many things wrong with xp at the begining one of my biggest moans was having to upgrade more ram 128mb ram just didn't make it.

I read somewhere that cpus already can be sold as 20ghz cpu or higher if they wanted too, but drip feeding us every 8 months or so gives them a fatter bank balance.

MS can't change for the sake of change they need to keep there millions growing.

[goldorak]

We are not going to see anytime soon 5, 10 or even 20 GHz cpu's in the desktop market. The reason being current leakage, its a technological barrier rather than a marketing one. And its the big reason why Intel scraped the Netburst architecture in favor of the Core microarchitecture.
The way forward is increasing cores instead of crazily increasing frequency.