ready for Vista in croke park?

mukki

only a few hours to go, and we can sleep for a lot of them


i work nights so i am going to the 8pm one, home by 11pm, so I will be able to try it out before i go to bed


I drove out to croke park today to make sure i don't get lost tomorrow

anyone know where we have to go when we get there,
a link to google earth would be brilliant

Lorax

Omg Im also so excited like, its truly a life changing moment, I really cant wait.

heading to the early one, hope i don't get stuck in traffic. see you all there

will we actually get a physical copy of Vista Home Premium at the conference ?

godtabh

mukki wrote:

i work nights so i am going to the 8pm one, home by 11pm, so I will be able to try it out before i go to bed

You wont get thd dvd till feb or when its released to the public

Dingatron

Could well be a voucher all right. It will be straight in the main entrance on Jones Rd, turn right at reception and up the lift to level 4 if its where I think it is. Nice view from those corporate boxes.

DirtyDog

Lorax wrote:

Omg Im also so excited like, its truly a life changing moment, I really cant wait.

i hope you were joking

Dingatron

I'm wearing my tinfoil hat.

Spipov

Best of all, all attendees will receive a full, free license for Vista Home Edition along with other eval software

says licence, not cd. ull probably just get a small piece of paper with numbers on it

godtabh

Spipov wrote:

says licence, not cd. ull probably just get a small piece of paper with numbers on it

You get a cd when it ships to the public

A friend got an email with the following text

* Getting your free copy of Vista:- All registered launch attendees will receive a full, free license of Vista Home Premium Edition. Unfortunately, physical copies of Home Premium will not be available until the consumer launch in the new year. However, everyone who is registered, attends and submits a feedback form will be mailed their fully licensed copy in the new year as soon as it comes off the production line.

Mohanned

woo i am going

godtabh

Mohanned wrote:

woo i am going

You need to be registered and there is a massive waiting list

testicle

*pets legal activated copy of Vista Ultimate full version*

mukki

if i get a cd key it will do

i already have the rtm downloaded

dave oc

Anyone been taken off the waitlist today?

Villain

I'm heading into the late one, hopefully it will be interesting.

KeRbDoG

kearnsr wrote:

* Getting your free copy of Vista:- All registered launch attendees will receive a full, free license of Vista Home Premium Edition. Unfortunately, physical copies of Home Premium will not be available until the consumer launch in the new year. However, everyone who is registered, attends and submits a feedback form will be mailed their fully licensed copy in the new year as soon as it comes off the production line.

ah damit! ah well, hope it wont be too painful tonight

Hydromonkey

What's my best way of getting to croker this evening via the dart? Never been up there myself

mukki

Hydromonkey wrote:

What's my best way of getting to croker this evening via the dart? Never been up there myself

i am just going to drive up now

never been there before either, my op was actually to find out more about where to go, but i didnt want to make it too obvious

RuggieBear

Hydromonkey wrote:

What's my best way of getting to croker this evening via the dart? Never been up there myself

Dart to Connolly and walk


or get the maynooth train from connolly and get off at drumcondra...but probably no suitable train as its a very infrequent service. check irish rail .com


I'll be getting the no 13 bus myself.

Be at the late one if anyone fancies saying hello. I'll be in a green t shirt and red'y cheque shirt.

swingking

I just back now and I found the whole talk a pile of Sh1t. For god sake, the speaker kept mentioning the company he worked for. It was his company first and the vista program second.

I nearly fell asleep listening to his bullsh!t.

Fortunately though, I am getting a free copy of Vista, so it evens out

godtabh

swingking wrote:

I just back now and I found the whole talk a pile of Sh1t. For god sake, the speaker kept mentioning the company he worked for. It was his company first and the vista program second.

I nearly fell asleep listening to his bullsh!t.

Fortunately though, I am getting a free copy of Vista, so it evens out

Had to say I agree with you. Was fairly poor

I laughed when yer man was talking about how there are 3-D models available of San Francisco, but when he went to zoom in on Dublin the satellite pics were of incredibly poor quality, and so he went to the road map!

Plus the machine he was on had 3.25gigs of RAM and was stuttering slightly during the mapping programme.

I for one was annoyed that Neil Armstrong wasn't there. I just went for the Vista, so for a free evening I suppose I was happy.

godtabh

Myth wrote:

I laughed when yer man was talking about how there are 3-D models available of San Francisco, but when he went to zoom in on Dublin the satellite pics were of incredibly poor quality, and so he went to the road map!

Plus the machine he was on had 3.25gigs of RAM and was stuttering slightly during the mapping programme.

I for one was annoyed that Neil Armstrong wasn't there. I just went for the Vista, so for a free evening I suppose I was happy.

Was it a laptop he was using? I couldnt make it out as I was sat behind some tall fucker!

What where the spec he was using? Core Duo 2.3GHz and 3.25gb of ram didnt see the graphics card.

RuggieBear

i actually quite enjoyed the speech.:o

but tbh i was only hanging around for the free vista

deckie27

Home premium. Not to shabby

Dingatron

I was wondering what the spec's of his machine were. Time for some more ram! Didn't hang around to long as I wanted to go home and play with the frisbee.

Johnniep

Was it only me who found it funny when the guy kept mentioning Microsoft "One Care"???

swingking

Did anyone actually stay for the second talk.

mukki

as soon as i knew i had done enough to get the free copy of vista i went home


but in fairness lads
stop giving out about it,
how could it have not been shyte....
....its was the businness man's star trek convection

_Kaiser_

Just back from the late event myself. At least the development fella showed a few interesting new features, and it was funny when the big screen monitor, then the main projector died (funny enough beforehand I said to the fella I went with that I wouldn't be suprised if we got a blue screen but this was close enough!)

(although his "they do know we're in the Republic right??" comment, in reference to the decidely orange theme, had me beat )

Didn't stay for the 2nd speaker though. Went and wandered around the various sub-events but - like everyone else it seems - I was really only there for the free Home Premium version.. even though I've been playing with Vista Business for over a week now (we get it through our Volume License Agreement you see )

All in all though I thought it was ok.. picked up a few interesting things which was about all I expected.

RobertFoster

Johnniep wrote:

Was it only me who found it funny when the guy kept mentioning Microsoft "One Care"???

You weren't alone

kaizersoze

Not long home myself from the early one:eek:
It was an awful pile of shyte in fairness but I didn't expect anything else so I wasn't disappointed. I nearly fell about the place laughing when I saw the frisbee. I thought it was some sort of promo packaging for Vista.:o

swingking wrote:

I just back now and I found the whole talk a pile of Sh1t. For god sake, the speaker kept mentioning the company he worked for. It was his company first and the vista program second.

Obviously you didn't listen too well. It was a fictional company created by Microsoft for the purposes of the demonstrations.:p

Mountjoy Mugger

kearnsr wrote:

Was it a laptop he was using? I couldnt make it out as I was sat behind some tall fucker!

What where the spec he was using? Core Duo 2.3GHz and 3.25gb of ram didnt see the graphics card.

It was an nVidia Quadro - not sure which one ...just caught a quick glance of the spec.

Stephen

I actually found the first guy, Robert's demo quite interesting. Some cool features I can see us using in work with Outlook 2007 and Sharepoint. Didn't stick around for the second one though, as I had to hit the road back to Kilkenny.

Swingking: Contoso and Fabrikam are fictional company names that Microsoft always uses in training material, exam questions and so on. The guy was just trying to demonstrate how useful businesses could find new features of Vista and office 2007. I can see shadow copies being available on the client PC's being a bloody life saver for IT departments.

Stark

Not getting a copy of Vista till the new year was disapointing enough. Still, gift horse and all that. Some features looked interesting. I was impressed by Outlook Web Access 2007 as an aside, a far cry from the godawful OWA 5.5 which is still being used by some unfortunate sods.

That first speaker just dragged on and on, thought he'd never shut up. It wouldn't have been too bad if we weren't crammed in like sardines.

As a plus, I got a free copy of a book at one of the stands.

godtabh

Did any one notice that alot of the stands had pcs running on XP? I would've thought they would've had a vista copy at this stage

GrumPy

Man, when do I actually get my free vista?

Stark

Some time after the official launch date of January 30th.

McAlban

I found the First talk very interesting too, although Sharepoint seems to be being pushed on us. The Features in Office and Exchange 2007 seem very impressive and easy to use. Found it Hilarious that the main Screen Crashed when he opened up the Performance and Reliability Centre!! haha!!

Diver79

Was it just me or did anyone else think that yer man from Canada was coked off his head?

He seemed very impressed with Outlooks ability to check multiple calendars while scheduling an invite. Thats been available in Lotus Notes for years!!!

Also, A friend I went with managed to crash one of the demo PC's. Guess they should have put more than 512MB in them.

mickoneill30

Diver79 wrote:

He seemed very impressed with Outlooks ability to check multiple calendars while scheduling an invite. Thats been available in Lotus Notes for years!!!

And Outlook. I'm using good old Outlook 2002 and I use that all the time.

I enjoyed the evening show. For the first hour or so during the Sharepoint and Live presentations I was falling asleep (I was about to ask where the hall for the Vista Launch was). He mentioned at the end that we'd gotten a preview of Vista, Office & Exchange. Exchange??? He sent an email. Great preview.

The second guy was quite good though. It's only an intro so I wasn't expecting too much. Didn't think much of his reasoning why MS don't ship an AntiVirus. It's because of the EU apparently. Craaaaap. Other than that there are some nice features he went through. Worth the entry price anyway.