Latest Vista Build Making Real Progress

feminazi writes "Computerworld's Scot Finnie has reviewed the newest Vista build and found some significant improvements over Beta 2, which he had previously criticized in pretty strong terms. There's improved performance, greatly reduced installation time, four network control panels and some wizards have all been combined into one nicely organized Network and Sharing Center. Microsoft is also reducing the number of annoying User Access Control (UAC) prompts. There are some minor improvements in the way Media Center handles windows, but it's still buggy."

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Re:This seems crazy, but...

[drsmithy]

How features like IE were removed from the Kernel, and turned into ordinary apps.

IE was never in the kernel. The rest of your rant is based on a similar level of ignorance.

Sinking Ship Big Deal.

[twitter]

The big deal is them not being able to get an OS out the door in six years, despite promisses and expensive "assurance" plans they sold people. The fact that it's still a buggy piece of junk and might slip yet again is more evidence that M$ has put it's efforts in all the wrong places. Instead of making good software they were busy trying to own digital media, slandering officials in Mass, "Getting the Facts" and other harmful waste.

Don't credit M$ for the work of others.

[twitter]

The open source alternatives that exist to most of the specialized commercial software I use (e.g. for statistical analysis) are frankly crap, and don't even come close to being viable (and most of us who could improve them don't have the time, since commercial software already meets our needs).

The people who write that software will be happy to move it to an OS that's not crap if they have not already done so. I'm not sure how you can do statistical analysis on a system with such a limited file system and networking. Those limits are well known to anyone who writes software that runs under windoze.