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• Coming around to Vista

  I'm finally a believer. See, a few months ago, before I went on my Russia trip, I decided to install Windows Vista Beta 2. I was an early Win2K user and was able to use it (at home even) from Beta 1 on. Ditto with XP. Since I was giving a keynote I thought it would be nice for me to show off some of the great new look and feel features of Vista like Aero Glass, etc. A few days before I left, I pushed a clean install of Vista onto my laptop, a Toshiba M5. Install was rough. For some reasons the hardware laptops is nothing like that on desktops. Even with XP, it's not unusual to have to go dig up drivers for networking adapters, Bluetooth, etc. So for Vista, I had to install a bunch of alpha drivers, and even a pre-release BIOS. Yikes. So I got... Posted Oct 04 2006, 04:02 PM by Shawn Burke's Blog Filed under: vista windows