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Getting A Handle On Vista
visination.com wrote to mention a news.com article which runs down some of the basics on MS's new Operating System. From the article: "Among the key features of Vista as it currently stands are: security enhancements, a new searching mechanism, lots of new laptop features, parental controls and better home networking. There will also be visual changes, thanks to Avalon, ranging from shiny translucent windows to icons that are tiny representations of a document itself. On the business side, Microsoft said Vista will be easier for businesses to deploy on multiple PCs and will also save costs by reducing the number of times computers will have to be rebooted."
no, i dont really like Macs me and many of my friends have had bad expriances, and i have had good expirances with MS from 2k, XP 2k server and 2k3 server but there are many improvments which I hope they can live up to
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No - it's called incompetence on the part of the people writing Windows where ANY programmer of ANY software can force a reboot any time - or at least demand the user reboot for no rational reason at all.
I'm not even sure about this "lazy programmer" stuff. Why would a programmer ASK for a reboot? He's putting his crap in the Registry, which supposedly he can do with no problem. His program isn't even running after install until I call it, so it's not like it's a service or a server he HAS to restart.
So why is he doing it?
BECAUSE HE'S BEEN TOLD TO, that's why! I'll bet if you hunt around the Windows programming books, you'll find there is some sort of "recommendation" that after updating the Registry or dropping DLLs in the system directories, that a program "should" reboot to "insure system stability" or whatever.
If this stuff was true back in Windows 98 and isn't true on Windows XP, somebody - like Microsoft - should start telling the developers regularly.
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I can understand your other issues, but how does that have ANYTHING to do with Windows XP?
Nothing except to highlight that I had reason to suspect the operating system before suspecting the actual hardware. After all the mouse had worked like a champion for 3 years, whereas I'd had hell with the OS.
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Holy shit - it looks from your blog like you're English - how the fuck do people understand you? I mean, if you speak like you type - sorry, not intended as a troll, but I've never seen such chimpish use of the english language.
No, that was so not a personal attack. If you read that sweeping generalization and took it personally then you indicted yourself, not me.
I am one of those people who defends Windows from unwarranted attacks.
Unwarranted? In every area Microsoft's products and/or its actions have warrranted an attack.
But you go ahead and feel smugly superior to the rest of us mindless sheeple; you're right, you're so much more intelligent and knowledgable than us Windows using drones.
If you're are even considering buying an OS with the DRM "features" of the next windows then yeah, you're god damn right I am. I'm predicting that you will buy, you'll buy it because it's "easier" for you, easier than learning or contributing. You'll defend the DRM even though you don't really agree with it. Hypocrite. Will your choices negatively affect my own freedom of choice? Yes, and *that* is a personal attack.Samsung took back my unlocked bootloader because Google wants me to rent movies. They're both evil.