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muggie2dammit
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Location: Ilsan, Korea
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 Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:16 am Post subject: Windows64 Professional |
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Now available for download from Microsoft. 360-day free evaluation copy.
Anyone out there with an Athlon64 that was waiting for it - it's here.
Hope this is useful to some people.
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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| The free download has been around for a while, and reading any reviews will tell you to stay away from it. |
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muggie2dammit
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Location: Ilsan, Korea
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 9:25 am Post subject: |
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| Demophobe wrote: |
| The free download has been around for a while, and reading any reviews will tell you to stay away from it. |
Which one? Build 1289, build 1433, or what?
They seem to be updating and releasing new builds every other week.
I quite like the fact that it's free for 360 days, and by then the real release will be out, and the most urgent bugs will be patched. In fact you can probably patch all the bugs as MS releases them, and in a year you can go ahead and buy it if you're happy with it.
What are the issues with it that you have most problems with?
For me, it's the lack of drivers for some of the programs I like to use, and the security holes that haven't been plugged yet.
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 1:46 pm Post subject: |
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I'm glad somebody out there is beta testing operating systems cause it sure ain't gonna be me.
It can't possibly be fun to have to do it, and if you like to do it just for the hell of it I have to admit that's a taste I haven't acquired.
Last time I did something similar was with winME (and my therapist says I only have 6 more sessions to go before I'm over it). |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| If you buy a 64bit chip can you run vanilla XP on it? |
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muggie2dammit
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 3:19 am Post subject: |
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| SuperHero wrote: |
| If you buy a 64bit chip can you run vanilla XP on it? |
Yes.
I'm running both WinXP Pro and Win64 Pro - I get to choose which one I want to run during boot-up. I wouldn't advise just running Windows64, not yet. It still doesn't have the driver support, sadly. |
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