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Windows Vista RC1 Impresses Critics

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the critics-aren't-always-critical dept.

bradley fellows writes "Early feedback from testers already using Windows Vista RC1 (Release Candidate 1) report that the OS is more stable than expected, which bodes well for Microsoft's plan to have Vista out according to its current schedule." Mind you, "expected" is relative given how many users regard their frequent crashes as normal operation for a PC.

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  1. Interesting spin by sqlrob · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm seeing both "more stable than expected" and "not ready for prime time" being used to describe Vista.

    1. Re:Interesting spin by cepayne · · Score: 3, Informative

      Didn't your parents ever teach you to "Never buy the *first* of anything".

      Wait till the quirks (in this case - huge gaping holes) are
      worked out before investing in that new $3000 computer to
      run Vista. ;-)

  2. Re:pithy comment necessary? by Magada · · Score: 5, Informative

    Erm. While XP is Microsoft's most stable OS to date, supporting (indeed, enabling) 3rd party apps is exactly what an OS should do in the first place, and do well. This job description specifically does NOT include the necessity for the kernel to barf on "illegal operations" performed by 3rd party apps which run (in theory) solely in userspace. Yet, this happens, by your own admission, a lot in XP.

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  3. If anyone wants to download it... by Toreo+asesino · · Score: 5, Informative
    [*sigh* I'll guess I'll copy+paste my rejected story.....]

    Windows Vista RC1 has been made available to the general public, with keys available here.

    There are various websites that report this build is far more stable than previous versions, but as Microsoft themselves have said "quality will continue to improve. We'll keep plugging away on application compatibility, as well as fit and finish, until RTM"

    These builds are set to expire on June 1st 2007

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  4. Re:Huh? by jimstapleton · · Score: 4, Informative

    lol yeah, Norton is a great system destabilizer. Not overly fond of adobe either, but their destabilizations tend to stick to their own software and not take the OS with them.

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  5. Re:What is an OS again? by matrixhax0r · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is very easy to fix and many popular distro's fix this by default. What the poster's example is a thread bomb. This is a bit a code that tries to make as many threads as possible. Windows has a fixed number of threads each user can make. In linux, this "limit" is adjustable. On many systems, either the distrubutor or the user hasn't set a limit allowing a fork bomb to affect the system. However, setting a limit is as easy as one line in /etc/limits or /etc/security/limits.conf

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