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1. newscientist2000

   
   Posted on: February 27, 2008 at 3:16PM  

   Wow, I thought Windows Server 2008 was postponed.

   I was going to attend the launch event in LA, but I think Im gonna wait for the mini Launch in San Diego in May.

   Hope its fun for all those that can attend.
2. fredclown

   
   Posted on: February 27, 2008 at 6:25PM  

   My word!  You guys should know better than to post a 1.3 meg. image!  That image doesn't have to be that large.
3. danielcastro

   
   Posted on: February 28, 2008 at 12:06PM  

   I hope, from the bottom of my heart, that SP1 will come to solve the several Video crashes and recovery like nvlddmkm stopped responding or atikmdag stopped responding.  Those crashes are, or should be treated as, major problems with Vista because it makes the system unstable.  And if the hole idea is to make the Vista the new gaming platform, those issues are bottlenecks that compromise the idea.  Except for that Vista will sure be successful in replacing XP, that is also a great product.

   Also, with the DirectX 10 only available on Vista and Vista crashing when playing, MS will probably have to reevaluate the decision of not implement a DX10 version for XP.  Gamers will be very disappointed if they buy their new graphic cards with DX 10 support but are unable to use it on Vista(DX10).
4. Yonah

   
   Posted on: February 28, 2008 at 4:55PM  

   Danielcastro,

   I'm not sure why you think SP1 would solve problems which are clearly related to buggy 3rd party drivers.  Perhaps it's more fashionable for you to blame the OS rather than the hundreds of other companies who are supposed to understand how to write stable, working drivers for their hardware.

   While I've never a crash, lockup or blue screen, even I had problems with bad drivers.  In particular, a previous driver was sometimes giving me corrupted graphics in 3D games after the system woke from sleep.  That issue was FIXED, not by Microsoft as YOU seem to expect, but my Nvidia in a newer driver release I had to download on my own.
5. GridGI

   
   Posted on: February 28, 2008 at 5:08PM  

   When will we see Vista SP1 available in other languages?
6. danielcastro

   
   Posted on: February 28, 2008 at 8:04PM  

   In fact the drivers could also be bad written.  

   But, for the SO user it does not matter.  

   What matter is the SO stable without crashes.

   how Microsoft will manage to solve it, because it is strategic for MS, is their busines.  If the crash is responsability of Microsoft or ATI or NVidia, for the final user it is not important.  The important is the impact on sales of SO.  And less crashes means (for the final user) more acceptance, and for MS means more sales.
7. JOWhite

   
   Posted on: February 29, 2008 at 5:02PM  

   so is Vista SP1 Final release officially out?
8. SteveBallmer

   
   Posted on: February 29, 2008 at 5:42PM  

   HEROS in the Server Farm!

   Today I was glad, proud, elated, inciplicated, to officially launch our Windows Server 2008 Suite of products!

   At the "rally/news conference" I waxed eloquent in praising IT workers, calling them the "Heart and Soul" of our industry!

   "They are HEROS! One and all! They wade through the pirana-infested waters of the internet! Battle the dragons of bad code! Fight off the anti-Microsoft trolls! Slay the demon-hackers! They fearlessly, boldly blaze the trail of technology leading the masses into the shiney, glowing city of the future! A beautiful future! A Microsoft dominated future!"

   I was so excited that I didn't realise that I was flailing my arms, leaping up and down and drewling on the podium. I'm just glad that we banned video cameras or I would have another one of those Monkey-boy videos to deal with!

   Folks, Windows Server 2008 is just that good! If it doesn't have you flailing, leaping and drewling after using it for a few days, you just don't really understand what you are looking at!
9. zed260

   
   Posted on: March 01, 2008 at 4:02PM  

   dang 1.3 meg image why not just post a small video clip

   have you guys never heard of compression

   (thank god i have broadband poor dialup users)
10. Project Mayu

    
    Posted on: March 02, 2008 at 2:56AM  

    Since Autopatcher was told to stop distributing Microsoft's patches, Dial-up users don't update windows, they just look at the several 100 hours to update, and just cancel and turn of windows update.