Microsoft, you idiots!

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03-10-2006, 02:46 AM
gerbick

Microsoft, you idiots!

Microsoft announced they won't support EFI in Vista... that means... no booting Vista on those nice, new Mactel's...

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Microsoft revealed today that it will not support EFI booting for Windows Vista on its launch. The news will be a shock for owners of Intel Macs who had hoped they would be able to dual-boot between Windows Vista and OS X. Intel Macs only support booting via EFI.

Well... wait, there's a bit o' hope...

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Speaking at Intel Developer Forum San Francisco, Microsoft development manager, Andrew Ritz, also revealed that there will never be any support for booting Windows via EFI on systems with 32-bit processors.

But that means the current EFI on the MacTel boxes will have to be upgraded to 64-bit from 32-bit EFI.

so close... so very damn close.

Oh, read it all here...
03-10-2006, 03:07 AM
yasunobu13

Is Vista going to be any different from XP?
03-10-2006, 03:08 AM
gerbick

yes. different color crash screen and clear interface if you have the horsepower to support it.
03-10-2006, 03:11 AM
mrkvavle

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Originally Posted by gerbick

yes. different color crash screen and clear interface if you have the horsepower to support it.

i hope its green. i like green.
03-10-2006, 03:13 AM
PAlexC

Not so shocked. Read an article in eWeek today saying how EFI 2.0 was expected to be "the" final standard, and was expected to go gung-ho with 64-bit machines. Not quite ready yet, and they probably don't want to have to deal with 1.1 vs. 2.0 both out in the wild at the same time.
03-10-2006, 03:35 AM
yasunobu13

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Originally Posted by gerbick

yes. different color crash screen and clear interface if you have the horsepower to support it.

Really, though. Outside of the graphics card effects. alt-tab "sideways" windows and the start bar search, there seems to be nothing new at all to warrent an upgrade.
03-10-2006, 03:40 AM
gerbick

nope. none of that is a reason to upgrade.

sadly enough, you asked, yet knew all of that. loaded question asking chump.
03-10-2006, 04:05 AM
PAlexC

Drivers running in user mode?
03-10-2006, 04:12 AM
The_Xell

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Originally Posted by yasunobu13

Really, though. Outside of the graphics card effects. alt-tab "sideways" windows and the start bar search, there seems to be nothing new at all to warrent an upgrade.

Dude, I had a thread with a total breakdown of Vista's features. It looks pretty damn good, especially as they're reworking the kernel and networking... Yum.

Oh, and for the traitors on Intel Macs wanting to dual boot... Ha. Too bad. :D
03-10-2006, 04:19 AM
gerbick

screw Vista. there's not too much really going for it that means too much to me. win2k is perhaps the best version of windows ever... no frou-frou wizards, interface, and solid as hell.
03-10-2006, 07:15 AM
indivision

from what ive read it sounds like a substantial change. pretty much windows re-built from the ground up.
03-10-2006, 09:10 AM
rob88wells

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Originally Posted by The_Xell

Dude, I had a thread with a total breakdown of Vista's features. It looks pretty damn good, especially as they're reworking the kernel and networking... Yum.

Oh, and for the traitors on Intel Macs wanting to dual boot... Ha. Too bad. :D

I agree.

Also, if Windows is so cr@p like people claim it to be, why do they want to use it?

:)
03-10-2006, 10:36 AM
hanratty21

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Originally Posted by gerbick

...win2k is perhaps the best version of windows ever... no frou-frou wizards, interface, and solid as hell.

...and soon to be not supported, by going the way of "Win ME."
03-10-2006, 11:06 AM
gerbick

yeah... I know. oh well. that's why I'm running win2k3 server. it'll be dropped sooner or later too.

WinME... was it truly really ever supported? I mean, you'd think they'd fix it.
03-10-2006, 11:09 AM
hanratty21

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Originally Posted by gerbick

...you'd think...

There's your problem. You think.
03-10-2006, 11:11 AM
gerbick

*shoots left side of brain*

All better.
03-10-2006, 03:10 PM
jAQUAN

well that solidifies it, no new mac for me... ever. My order for a Dell XPS is as good as made.
03-10-2006, 05:54 PM
random25

which OS do you think will be hacked to work on the wrong hardware first, osx or vista?
03-10-2006, 06:23 PM
JWin

I think if people put the effort into vista on mac that they have OSX on pc, I vote vista
03-10-2006, 06:26 PM
enpstudios

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Originally Posted by gerbick

yes. different color crash screen and clear interface if you have the horsepower to support it.

But what about the blue screen of death ?
03-10-2006, 06:39 PM
Markp.com

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Originally Posted by estudioworks

But what about the blue screen of death ?

Microsoft can now say that their os will never ever have a blue screen of death error...
03-10-2006, 07:08 PM
random25

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Originally Posted by Markp.com

Microsoft can now say that their os will never ever have a blue screen of death error...

Did they fix the errors that cause the blue screen of death?,
no... they prolly just did away with the blue screen error message.

I would rather see an blue screen error message than just a black screen with no indication of whats wrong.