Out of interest, and apologies if its been asked before, but
ARE YOU GOING TO BUY VISTA [soon/now]?
I'm not!
Then again, I don't have to in many ways, i.e., we have a licence that would allow me to have this on as many machines as I want, but, the only machine I currently have it on is a virtual one - via VMWare.
I've actually had it [in various forms] for, um, rather a long time now - but, whilst it was not a 'released product', I haven't really bothered - apart from using it for a grid-computing experiment [where I needed it for some rather devious and 'can't say' purposes].
Anyway, now that it's due, and seeing that some of the good features
do actually work - well, I'm not convinced that I'll bother [even though it's free for me to load up a copy on my various machines].
It's 'free' for you, but you don't want it!!! Yes, and yes!
XP Pro works well for me - and my machines are all bolted down etc: and, having witnessed some rather dissapointing bugs in the business-release [which 'smack' of it [still!] being rushed - or - not properly tested], I don't think I'm going to jump on until I'm *forced* to [bought-a-new-machine / paid-for-it-pre-installed / might-as-well-use-it (with XP Pro as a dual-boot!)]
As an MS share-holder [and one-time employee], all of this makes me wonder about Microsoft's future ... how much does an OS [or an Office-Suite]
not do before you consider you should/must upgrade? And, if your answer is that Vista is necessary - what about the next version - or the next version of Microsoft Office?? When will *the product*
do enough - be reliable enough - that, thank you very much, but I'm quite happy with what I've got ta!
And, no, I don't think 128-bit stuff is going to convince me either, Duh!
So, what's the next cash cow for Microsoft? I mean - *search* is done and dusted, so ... what's next ... what's the next BiG Thing?
Just wondering whether or not anyone else has had to modify their code to live with UAC?
The problem? Well, here's one - you can't use CreateProcess to shell another application - like a wrappered setup.exe perhaps.
I recently had to do this for some code that wrappered an AV installer here. CreateProcess fails coz the Shell can't prompt/ask the user if the incoming app's ok to be run.
A simple fix is to just do this via the Shell, i.e., through something like ShellExecuteEx – then the user gets asked the 'is it ok' question.
There seem to be other methods – most of which are documented on msdn of course
Don't know if this will work outside of the UK, but, one of my can't miss radio shows is often
Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time.
I say 'often' because one week the show is about something like the Speed of Light and the next, it's about Renaissance Poetry - guess which find more personally interesting!
Anyway, until this Thursday, the latest programme about Archimedes is available as an
MP3 download.
The science-based programmes are available as a Listen Again thingmy
here.