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It is rumoured that Vista N versions will fit on a 3½ in. floppy - is this true?
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Key Pounder wrote:

It is rumoured that Vista N versions will fit on a 3½ in. floppy - is this true?

And you can also stick a million pins into the head of a troll.

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:34:23 +0100, Key Pounder wrote:

It is rumoured that Vista N versions will fit on a 3½ in. floppy - is this true?

No, but I did hear that believe Vista 3.11 for WorkGroups will fit on 7 floppies thou.

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"Mike Williams" wrote in message

Key Pounder wrote: It is rumoured that Vista N versions will fit on a 3½ in. floppy - is this true?
And you can also stick a million pins into the head of a troll.

it would need about 1800 disks to fit vista on to floppy.

"Mark Gillespie" wrote in message

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:34:23 +0100, Key Pounder wrote:
It is rumoured that Vista N versions will fit on a 3½ in. floppy - is this true?
No, but I did hear that believe Vista 3.11 for WorkGroups will fit on 7 floppies thou.

It's not SPAM... just rather silly that's all. Floppy disks went obsolete some years back.
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--: Original message follows :-- "Kamal" wrote in message

it would need about 1800 disks to fit vista on to floppy.

"Mark Gillespie" wrote in message On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:34:23 +0100, Key Pounder wrote:
It is rumoured that Vista N versions will fit on a 3½ in. floppy - is this true?
No, but I did hear that believe Vista 3.11 for WorkGroups will fit on 7 floppies thou.

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"Zack Whittaker" wrote in message

It's not SPAM... just rather silly that's all. Floppy disks went obsolete some years back.
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--: Original message follows :-- "Kamal" wrote in message it would need about 1800 disks to fit vista on to floppy.

"Mark Gillespie" wrote in message On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:34:23 +0100, Key Pounder <key@pounder.anon wrote:
It is rumoured that Vista N versions will fit on a 3½ in. floppy - is this true?
No, but I did hear that believe Vista 3.11 for WorkGroups will fit on 7 floppies thou.

Yes, vista N will fit on ONE floppy, but, the boot loader does not contain the drivers for the floppy, so, you have to boot from DVD, when you get the to stage that allows you to insert drivers, insert a USB key, you have to make this, from the DVD it will have the floppy drivers, the setup will read the drivers from USB key and allow the floppy to be used for the rest of the setup.
note, this is a HD floppy, but it does not have the HD hole, so, you have to make this hole yourself.


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It is rumoured that Vista N versions will fit on a 3½ in. floppy - is this true?
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I think he was just making a Joke about how many features the EU is going to Force Microsoft to Remove from Windows Vista.
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"Mike Williams" wrote in message Key Pounder wrote: It is rumoured that Vista N versions will fit on a 3½ in. floppy - is this true?
And you can also stick a million pins into the head of a troll.

Kevin John Panzke wrote: | I think he was just making a Joke about how many features the EU is going | to Force Microsoft to Remove from Windows Vista. |
That's it, Sherlock
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"Key Pounder" wrote in message

Kevin John Panzke wrote: | I think he was just making a Joke about how many features the EU is going | to Force Microsoft to Remove from Windows Vista. |
That's it, Sherlock
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Yehh so do I :o)
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"Key Pounder" wrote in message Kevin John Panzke wrote: | I think he was just making a Joke about how many features the EU is going | to Force Microsoft to Remove from Windows Vista. |
That's it, Sherlock
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Hello!
"Key Pounder" wrote in message

It is rumoured that Vista N versions will fit on a 3 in. floppy - is this true?

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/browse_frm/thread/3a08114779709b5c/

I understand that European users of Windows Vista must settle for the N editions which, for anti-trust reasons, will "not include WMP nor other media-related functionality". However, can I assume that European users will still be able to download WMP 10 (and its future updates) from the MS download site if they so choose, or not? Also, can anybody explain to me what "other media related functionality" means?

And BTW, http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/08/19/453612.aspx

How many floppy disks did Windows 95 come on? Thirteen. In case you were wondering. And those were thirteen of those special Distribution Media Format floppies, which are specially formatted to hold more data than a normal 1.44MB floppy disc. The high-capacity floppies reduced the floppy count by two, which resulted in a tremendous savings in cost of manufacturing and shipping. (I'm sure there are the conspiracy-minded folks who think that DMF was invented as an anti-piracy measure. It wasn't; it was a way to reduce the number of floppy disks. That the disks were difficult to copy was a side-effect, not a design goal.) (For comparison, Windows 3.1 came on six floppies. Windows NT 3.1 came on twenty-two. And yesterday, one of my colleagues reminded me that Windows NT setup asked for the floppy disks out of order! I guess it never occurred to them that they could renumber the disks.)

Cheers, Roman

"roman modic" schrieb im Newsbeitrag [about old Windows on Disks] The last MS Office on Disks, Version 4.2 (which contained Word 6.0, Excel 5 (iirc) and those other Office Apps, 16-bit for Win3.1) was on more than 40 disks! (48? 45? anyone?)

how about LS-120s. lol "Zack Whittaker" wrote in message

It's not SPAM... just rather silly that's all. Floppy disks went obsolete some years back.
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--: Original message follows :-- "Kamal" wrote in message it would need about 1800 disks to fit vista on to floppy.

"Mark Gillespie" wrote in message On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:34:23 +0100, Key Pounder <key@pounder.anon wrote:
It is rumoured that Vista N versions will fit on a 3½ in. floppy - is this true?
No, but I did hear that believe Vista 3.11 for WorkGroups will fit on 7 floppies thou.

Really? How do you install XP or Win2k3 on a SATA RAID array, then? AFAIK, the setup program still can't load the required drivers from a CD or USB drive... -- Pierre Szwarc Paris, France PGP key ID 0x75B5779B ------------------------------------------------ Multitasking: Reading in the bathroom ! ------------------------------------------------
"Zack Whittaker" a écrit dans le message de news: uRQoInnXGHA.128@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... | It's not SPAM... just rather silly that's all. Floppy disks went obsolete | some years back.

"Kevin John Panzke" wrote in message

I think he was just making a Joke about how many features the EU is going to Force Microsoft to Remove from Windows Vista.

Why doesn't Microsoft just do the smart thing and unbundle the "apps" from the "os"?
The come out with a single version of Vista, and then add on "feature" disk(s)...
So you buy Vista+Media, or Vists+Server, etc...
Vista contains the kernel, control panel, notepad, calculator... just the basics. Once it's installed then the user can stick in the feature disk and install the bits they want, like IE, Media Player, MCE, IIS, etc...

Because it can't work like that :os
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--: Original message follows :-- "Noozer" wrote in message

"Kevin John Panzke" wrote in message I think he was just making a Joke about how many features the EU is going to Force Microsoft to Remove from Windows Vista.
Why doesn't Microsoft just do the smart thing and unbundle the "apps" from the "os"?
The come out with a single version of Vista, and then add on "feature" disk(s)...
So you buy Vista+Media, or Vists+Server, etc...
Vista contains the kernel, control panel, notepad, calculator... just the basics. Once it's installed then the user can stick in the feature disk and install the bits they want, like IE, Media Player, MCE, IIS, etc...

Yes it can. It's just that Microsoft won't. ;^P -- Pierre Szwarc Paris, France PGP key ID 0x75B5779B ------------------------------------------------ Multitasking: Reading in the bathroom ! ------------------------------------------------
"Zack Whittaker" a écrit dans le message de news: ehhKSntYGHA.4120@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... | Because it can't work like that :os |