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[Panos Savvas]

Vista is terrible.. agreed.
Vista shipped without many of the promised features because MS bowed to
shareholder pressure... agreed
Vista still has many of the braindead OS ghosts that XP suffered from...
agreed

...er whats my point?...  I was eventually gonna disagree with something. Oh
yes. despite this Vista is not XP.
We will have to wait for Longhorn (server 2008) for some important updates
to test, but Vista has a new presentation layer, a new filesystem (although
again wait for the cool(?) stuff in sp3 or something) and of course a
pathetic attempt to have a secure/easy user interface.

Vista is attrocious, but these things do make it different from XP. Just not
better :)


On 7/29/07, Christopher Hunter <chrisehunter at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 17:51 +0100, Panos Savvas wrote:
> > Where do you get your info? It's uncanny. I am sure all this is
> > insider strategy stuff.
> > Vista is better than XP. Albeit like saying Pop Idol is more
> > intellectual than Big Brother.
>
> Actually, Vista IS XP, with added visual gimmicks, added "nag dialogues"
> to give the impression of "security" and a sauce of DRM nonsense.
>
> MS squandered many millions and several years on "Longhorn", then
> abandoned all the clever stuff as they were desperate to get something
> into the market place.  Don't believe the story that it took 5 years to
> develop - it was actually thrown together in about seven months, which
> is why it's as bad as it is!
>
> Vista's so bloated that it won't "run" on anything less than 1 Gb RAM,
> and even then it's so slow that it's useless.  It renders most hardware
> obsolete as existing Windows drivers won't work any more (because of the
> DRM) and the new ones are either broken or not yet written.
>
> This could explain the Dell Ubuntu machines!
>
> C.
>
>
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