[Nottingham] [Social/Chat] Thurs 17/05/2007 - Informal Nav Beers'n'Chat

[Martin]

Michael Leuty wrote:
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> They said that Vista was completely rewritten from scratch, but that
> can't be true, Shirley?

Well... It has already suffered some of the same security scares and
updates/patches as earlier versions of Windows...

Of course, no code is released and so we can't see for sure... But then,
there is the Microsoft code that /was/ released that we can compare with:

Vista – End of the Dream?
By Dave Jewell

("Unmaintainable.")
http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/04/29/vista_end_dream/


> I met a non-computer literate friend yesterday whom I hadn't seen for
> a while, and he told me that he'd heard there was trouble with the new
> version of Windows.
> 
> Word is getting out. (That's "word", not "Word (TM)".)

Oooer... I didn't know that there was a Windows program called
Pulpit!... (Ouch!)


Cheers,
Martin

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