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Microsoft Loses Appeal of "Vista-Capable" Lawsuit
bfwebster writes "Microsoft has lost its appeal to remove class-action status for the 'Vista Capable' lawsuit that has already resulted in some embarrassing internal e-mails being released publicly. As Computerworld reports, in its appeal to the US Ninth Circuit Court, Microsoft argued (among other things) that 'continuing the lawsuit might mean new disclosures of insider e-mails, which could "jeopardize Microsoft's goodwill" and "disrupt Microsoft's relationships with its business partners."' Given what's been released so far (158-page PDF), not to mention Microsoft's history of rather frank internal e-mails, that's probably putting it mildly. There could be some interesting reading ahead."
OS X runs fairly well on the 'bare minimum'. So much so some people have hacked it to run on less than the bare minimum. In addition to the fact that each major release has run FASTER on all of my hardware.
I heard KDE 4 is supposed to be like that also.
Why can't Microsoft, who heavily recruits some of the best programmers, manage to do this?
the following is an explanation of a lame joke: :-)
i'm spanish and i remember 2'nd grade english class in puerto rico.
teacher, " espoon, espoon "
kids, " poon!, poon! "
me, " spoooooon! hahaha! "
(give me a break, it was 2'nd grade
i was raised in usa, just went to puerto rico for 2'nd grade
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Technically, two of those upmods were funny, so I can actually lose karma for this post - even if it shows as +5 something. ;)
But, funny was what I was going for.
OS X runs fairly well on the 'bare minimum'.
Rubbish. OS X is a dog on anything with less than a gig of RAM and a G5 CPU.
Heck, even on my mum's G5 iMac with 2G, it still chunks up regularly. My old 1Ghz iBook with 768MB was painfully slow doing anything more than basic web browsing and email (Vista is noticably more responsive on a similarly specced ca. 2000 deskop PC).
In addition to the fact that each major release has run FASTER on all of my hardware.
This stopped about 10.4. Also, it's not hard to get faster with every release when you start off so slow to begin with. It was _years_ after OS X was first released before hardware that could run it well even existed. Windows has never, ever been that bad.
You need similar levels of hardware to run OS X and Vista at similar levels of performance. OS X might give slightly more leeway at the low end, but when "the low end" is machines from 5+ years ago, and a brand new machine with dual cores and 2G RAM is under US$450, that's really not anything more than a footnote.