Halo 2 Comes to Windows Vista !!!

re: Halo 2 Comes to Windows Vista !!!

Keith Combs — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 04:44:10 GMT

Wow!!! No comments? Well, there are people on all sides of the fence for this announcement. I think it'll be a great way to generate some buzz around the Windows Vista launch, help sell Vista, and probably sell a few graphics cards and dual core machines.

Other people seem to be upset it isn't being certified to run on Windows XP or other operating systems.

It's going to be an interesting summer and early fall...

re: Halo 2 Comes to Windows Vista !!!

rob — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:57:53 GMT

MS is gonna need something clever to sell Vista cause you know what? I hated 95. Couldn't wait for 98. Then I hated 98.. Couldn't wait for 2000. Then I hated 2000 (not as much as the others though).. Couldn't wait for XP. Now, I love XP. It's stable and does what it's supposed to do... if an app crashes, you shut it down.. no blue screen every hour or so.. I love it. Why would I want to upgrade? Or the 100 employees at work I watch over? Like we say in Texas "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" :-)

re: Halo 2 Comes to Windows Vista !!!

Keith Combs — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:33:03 GMT

You hated 95 and 98? Come on, give me a break. I didn't work for Microsoft in the 95 days so I hadn't drunk from the koolaid dispenser yet, but 95 kicked butt over DOS and Windows 3.1.

This is certainly clever, but it won't affect the business SKU's. It might help the Home SKU nicely though. I guess we'll see later this year.

re: Halo 2 Comes to Windows Vista !!!

rob — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:27:19 GMT

Ok, maybe hate is too strong a word.. but I used Win 95 since the beta build was in the double digits and I built the pre-loads for TI laptops. 95 was OK but it was just too flakey. Windows 3.11 was dos with a pretty face and I loved dos. Programmed stuff in assembly looking up at DOS for some testing suites I did at TI and got to know it well.

re: Halo 2 Comes to Windows Vista !!!

Madman — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:16:09 GMT

SHAME on Microsoft and Bungie for not bring the Halo2 game to PC sooner. To condem us to Halo on PC for several years is bad enough, but to add insult to injury. They force us to get vista to play halo 2 on pc, and what happens when the famous Microsoft Bugs for any new OS start crashing down.

I for one am glad open source is grwoign more popular and there are other shooter games to take the place of Halo. It's one thing to want to make money off your product and idea, it's another use that love of a game to sell a product we know won't be truly ready for aleast 6-months, Microsoft should just admit their greedy bastards and dumb their public relations department.