Anyone surprised, please raise your hand.
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| Bob_Robertson Nov 13, 2008 8:46 PM EDT |
I mean, really, with the same monolithic code base, how could it be much different? |
| tracyanne Nov 13, 2008 8:50 PM EDT |
It will be what Vista should have been, according Microsoft - a very power DRM engine, with general user computing added on. |
| phsolide Nov 13, 2008 8:57 PM EDT |
I think it's clear that MSFT has reached the limits of the old "top down" design-by-edict model. Anyone who has followed NT's software engineering evolution (from "Show Stopper!" to the various incarnations of "Inside Windows NT") will nod their heads. It's just too darn big of a code base. Combine that with a strange ulterior agenda (the DRM stuff) and an inability to ditch backwards-compatibility, and you get... Rubbish. Absolute rubbish. |
| r_a_trip Nov 14, 2008 5:26 AM EDT |
Apart from the ineffective DRM (it still plays unprotected MP3's and DivX movies), Vista's most hampering "features" are UAC and having "Trusted Installer" own your files. Once you kill UAC and reclaim ownership of the files on your harddrive, Vista runs about equivalent to Windows XP, albeit with fancier glassy effects and a slightly degraded Start-menu and Windows Explorer usability wise. Still, it will be a cold day in the pit if MS gets me to replace GNU/Linux with Windos. |
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