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Vista To Be Updated Without Reboots
UltimaGuy writes "Microsoft is working on a new feature for Windows Vista, known as Restart Manager, which will update parts of the operating system or applications without having to reboot the entire machine. From the article: 'If a part of an application, or the operating system itself, needs to updated, the Installer will call the Restart Manager, which looks to see if it can clear that part of the system so that it can be updated. If it can do that, it does, and that happens without a reboot.'"
There is no reboot, just a breif BSOD, then you're back at teh login screen.
Are you...Are you some kind of genius?
No, ma'am, I'm just a regular Slashdot reader.
Damn! We should copy this feature into Linux! oh, wait....
I think it still might be a better idea to reboot to linux and go from there :-)
What will I do all day long now?
One ring to bind them - should probably have more fiber and less rings in their diet.
So, with this new feature, will windows be ready for the desktop? Because it is years now that we hear "this year is THE year, it is ready for the desktop !"
...of the new Restart Manager is the Dolby Stereo 5.1 system. It checks whether it can update without reboot, sees that there's no fucking way, then plays a sound behind your back - you turn and presto! - no reeboot needed!
Maybe it's sarcasm? No, that's unpossible Slashdot is to regard all matters with the utmost of seriousness.
They are typically called System Administrators.
If you ignore the other uses of a tool, does that make the tool less useful, or you less useful?
I wish the hell they would just make the the damned thing more stable in the first place.
Microsoft acts like a kid who won't eat his vegetables, won't do his homework, won't clean up after himself and won't take out the garbage and yells, "Hey, hey Ma look! I can balance a beachball on my nose! Aren't you proud of what a clever boy I am?"
I'd like to take Billg by the hair and tell him, "No Windows Vista for you young man until you fix all the broken crap in XP! And stop making faces at cousin Linus."
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Why is it that every Microsoft solution involves a "manager"? They never seem to get to the point and just fix a problem. Instead, we get these grandiose stacks of hierarchy. It's like the French government is behind every design decision.
What's with the kid that always crosses the finish line last and somehow always gets perceived as the leader?
Why does every topic have to come down to politics and the Bush administration?
Call me a pessimistic, but I put this one in snowball's chance in hell likelihood. I mean, it's just as likely as the Israelis giving up Gaza Strip, the Red Sox and White Sox winning World Series, and Oprah appearing on the Late Show with Dave Letterman. And we all know those things won't happen.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
"In a small way, Windows NT is a Unix." -Bill Gates
When there was a vulnerability in PHP, I killed everybody because I wasen't sure
Isn't that a bit drastic?
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