Bill Gates had been interviewed many times over the last dozen-or-so years by the BBC regarding many aspects of his life and his business. This times things were a bit different however. For this time instead of asking them questions from BBC writers, they asked Gates questions from the gamers themselves in this video interview. Brilliant. Hit the jump for more
Microsoft and Bungie dropped a new Halo 2 PC trailer today. If you have a beefy Windows Vista computer, Halo 2 is your first DirectX 10 eye candy.
The textures look better than the 360 version and the included map editor looks to add a lot of depth to the game.
Have you been having issues with installing Windows Vista? A lot of people have, with incompatible hardware, software, and the like. Well, Anthony Cumia, of Opie and Anthony fame (listen daily on XM 202), decided to make video tutorial of how to properly install Vista. He had a hard time on his main computer, so decided to install it on a second machine with terrific results. Check the video…
So I decided to do an upgrade to Vista Ultimate on my laptop instead of a clean install. I figure, if it doesn’t work out well, I can always do a clean install. To jump the gun… I love Vista! The Aero interface is terrific. And it’s working almost perfect…
The install itself took, I shit you not, 5.5 hours. It’s not like I have a slow computer either. My laptop rocks a 2.16ghz Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB DDR2-667 RAM. Not too shabby. It’s just painfully slow to do an upgrade. Once I finally got into Vista, I had a few issues with programs that needed to re-installed because they lost their activations, particularly AVG AntiVirus and Nero 7. I can’t install the Visual Studio 2005 SP1, but I hear that’s more a common thing than a Vista issue. Few small things here and there (sleep settings for my laptop, sync’ing with my BlackBerry), but everything seems to be up and running fine. I only have 2 programs that don’t work under Vista, both having to do with my Nikon dSLR. The first is Nikon Capture NX, their Raw processing software. Second is DxO Optics Pro 4, which also is a Raw processing and image enhancement software. Both assure me that new versions will be available “shortly”, but both also said they don’t have a definite ETA. I guess I’ll just run that stuff on my desktop PC for now.
Overall, it went fairly smooth, other than than ridiculous amount of time it took. I’m happy I made the upgrade. Now just waiting for Office 2007 Enterprise to arrive…
In case anyone hasn’t heard, and you live in a bubble somewhere, Windows Vista officially launches today. Most of the big retailers are offering some free things with Vista today. I know Staples is giving away a free PNY 1GB USB flash drive, and rebates for some software that you buy along with it.
Be careful about that update though, there’s still alot of software that doesn’t work properly, and some hardware doesn’t have good drivers yet…
So after speaking with Drunk Black/White Large Animal last night about his issue with Microsoft Vista updates and Quickbooks, Microsoft seems to be having issues with Wikipedia as well.
Just to remind anyone interested that Bill Gates’ CES Keynote Address is tonight at 6:30PM PST. It’s being streamed live here.
Expect announcements of the IPTV service, larger hard drive, and HDMI version of the Xbox 360. I wouldn’t be surprised if Bill talks about Halo 3 either (yeah, I went out on a limb on that one).
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