How Ultimate is Windows Vista Ultimate?

15 Responses (Add) | Friday, June 22nd, 2007 at 8:50pm

Windows Vista Ultimate is so freakin’ ultmiate that it can’t run the ultmiate add-on because the ultimate pair of monitors are running at the ultimate screen resolution (two Dell UltraSharp 3007WFP monitors at 2560×1600 apiece). This is ultimately not much of a let-down for me, as most of Vista’s Ultimate extras have proven themselves to be anything BUT.

Here’s the ultimate dialog box that is fully visible when I try running Windows Vista Ultimate’s Dreamscene. You’ll find that it’s very nicely shaded around the edges, and the title bar is quite tranlucent.

Error messages are simply stunning in Vista Ultimate:

w00t! Let’s contrast the Windows Ultimate experience with that of the open source projects, Beryl and Compiz (Compiz Fusion):

Ultimate, indeed.

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15 Comments

The Chris Pirillo Show

November 30th, 1999
at 12:00am

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Morningzoo

November 30th, 1999
at 12:00am

The Ultimate Free Guide to Stop Viruses and Spyware The Telemarketer Game Watching the Shuttle Landing (and other stuff) How Ultimate is Windows Vista Ultimate? The Future of Audio and Video is Here

Josh McConnell

June 22nd, 2007
at 9:03pm

Ha… And are we surprised? No, not really…

I broke down today and decided to get a Mac again (my old G3 iBook broke a year ago, been Mac-less since). My 15″ MacBook Pro should be here in about a week. I can’t wait. I’ll still have my dual screen XP desktop as my main setup, but the laptop will help me to transition back into the Mac world. With options such as Parallels now, I should be able to run Windows programs that won’t work on the Mac and have the best of both worlds… I’ll let you know how it goes.

Daniel

June 22nd, 2007
at 9:21pm

Erm that error message implys its your video cards fault, not windows.

KalEl

June 22nd, 2007
at 10:15pm

how much would Compiz Fusion cost? Is Linux free?

Nordquist Blog » Blog Archive » Windows Vista not so ultimate

June 22nd, 2007
at 10:35pm

[...] Always a glutton for punishment, Chris Pirillo continues to run Windows Vista. [...]

Matt Hartley

June 23rd, 2007
at 12:04am

I am “loving me some Linux; just as much as the next guy. And yeah, I have been full time for quite awhile now. But Beryl is not all peaches and cream. There are plenty of bugs with it, but then again, it is still very much still in Beta. :)

MonkeyMagic698

June 23rd, 2007
at 2:21am

Chris,

To get the Ultimate Windows experience you need the ultimate computer, I thought you would have known that. It sounds to me like you don’t have the ultimate technical support service either that you should have got with your PC.

You may want to consider http://nerdsonsite.com for the closest experience you can have to the ultimate technical support.

Gretchen

June 23rd, 2007
at 3:02am

rrcs-72-43-26-186.nys.biz.rr.com

dummy.

lisa coultrup

June 23rd, 2007
at 7:23am

I love Compiz * what I have been able to learn in running it so far* and I LOVE Beryl, I would never, in a million years, even if BG gave me a setup running windoze, go back to microslave…….. linux rocks!

Full time user - three months now and in total love!!!