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Nice collection on that one then.

It was a joint promotion with Windows XP and I'm wondering if it's written in a way that only Windows XP can understand? Because I put it in my laptop earlier (Windows 7) and it shows up and iTunes ripped it ok, but I can't actually access the videos or other directories through file explorer.

I'll try and force it open.

EDIT: I'm in, had a program open that was conflicting.

drewhiggins

13 years

If it's like the video CD I remember getting - probably the same style - you had to play it in an actual CD-only ROM drive. Not one that accepts DVDs.

iTim

13 years

I'm in now, I had a program running that strips the encryption off DVD's and for some reason it was messing with this CD. Plenty of Windows XP adverts on the disc...

I wasn't expecting the Eze version of Beautiful Day

drewhiggins

13 years

Ahhhhh....I'll bet there's plenty of those ads. XP was a pretty good OS from what I remember.

iTim

13 years

Originally posted by drewhiggins:Ahhhhh....I'll bet there's plenty of those ads. XP was a pretty good OS from what I remember.

Yeah, there's 14 adverts. I liked XP and so do a lot of other people, still heavily used in business environments. All of the self checkout's in supermarkets run on Windows XP.

Low quality encode of Biffco Mix, you're not kidding. 64Kbps

drewhiggins

13 years

For the year though that'd have been pretty high-quality. Promo CDs I have only have songs encoded at 128kbps.

XP is still solid as anything. I know people who won't upgrade because they think W7 and Vista are too unstable.

iTim

13 years

I went to Vista and regret the decision, now running Windows 7 I think it's possibly the best OS from Microsoft. Hopefully Windows 8 doesn't take the same step backwards that Vista made.

drewhiggins

13 years

I didn't mind Vista, but W7 is probably the best of this decade. What I'm looking forward to is the new interface of W8 - to see how it works out and see if it really does simplify things - but I don't want it too simple that it becomes dumb like OSX.

Not to say I don't like OSX - but at times it's a little bit strange the way it works.

iTim

13 years

I used the developer preview of Windows 8 a while ago and from what I could gather it's the same functionality and interface of Windows 7 (with some improvements and additions I'm sure) but it has the metro style interface set as default. So everything is available from the tiles like below:

But you can peel that away to reveal the standard Windows desktop. Obviously designed to introduce themselves to the tablet and touch PC market, in that sense I guess it'll be a hit. Metro for standard desktop though might be a little limited.

drewhiggins

13 years

I thought it was the only interface you could have. That's good, at least it won't totally be shit-canned by people not willing to try it out. Not too bad-looking, and to finally get something newer than a start bar and a clock in the corner.

That's the problem with the iPhone...while it might be easy and well-known, after, what - four years - might be time for a slight change.

iTim

13 years

There is a 'Desktop' tile which takes you to this familiar (Yet altered, new start icon etc) desktop:

Interested to see how well the ribbon toolbar works in file explorer too.

Worst thing about Apple prodcuts in my opinion is that year after year they keep releaseing the same, locked down software. Apart from moving apps around and changing the background, where's the customisability? To be fair, the UI on the iPod/iPad/iPhone isn't that good looking anyway.

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