Regardless of whether you agree with the article itself, what's with the blatant quote mangling in the summary?
"When Windows 7 launches sometime after the start of 2010, the desktop OS will be Microsoft's most "modular" yet. Having never really been comfortable with the idea of a single, monolithic desktop OS offering, Microsoft has offered multiple desktop OSes in the marketplace ever since the days of Windows NT 3.1, with completely different code bases until they were unified in Windows 2000. Unification isn't necessarily a good thing, however; Windows Vista is a sprawling, complex OS."
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"When Windows 7 launches sometime after the start of 2010, the desktop OS will be Microsoft's most 'modular' operating system to date. That's not necessarily a good thing, of course; Windows Vista is a sprawling, complex OS."
Which completely alters the intent of the original (unification not necessarily being a good thing, as opposed to modularization).
If you look at the first image, it has two times, 54 seconds and 1 minute 25 seconds. The second time is shown at well over double the length of the first, even though it only took ~50% longer. If you look closely, you will see that 1:25 got placed at 1.25, and 0:54 got placed at 0.54, hence the error.
Any of the images where the minutes are different are going to be skewed a fair amount. The error will decrease as the minute difference increases.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but I'm a dumbass. You can't set the ".doc" file to be an "exefile" from the HTTP header. You have to find some mime-type that makes it execute instead. I've tryed "application/octet-stream", but that doesn't work. I'm not sure what mime-type you would have to use.
If I'm understanding the article correctly, this is fairly easy to do. For those of you running windows, follow these instructions.
Open up regedit.
Go to the ".doc" key under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.
Change the (Default) value to read "exefile".
Copy any executable file and rename it with a ".doc" extension.
Make an html page that links to the renamed executable.
Click on the link in your html page. It will look as if you are simply opening a ".doc" file, but you will actually run the executable once you select "Open".
As far as I can tell (someone please correct me if I'm wrong), you can still install your old driver. You will only be disallowed if it causes severe stability problems.
Basically, you can install any driver you like, unless it is found to have stability problems. Drivers don't need to be certified to be installed, they only need to be certified for Microsoft to put them on their site.
Also, as far as I know as I know this is an "opt-in" system. Drivers aren't disabled by default, they are only disabled when they have a history of crashing.
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Regardless of whether you agree with the article itself, what's with the blatant quote mangling in the summary?
"When Windows 7 launches sometime after the start of 2010, the desktop OS will be Microsoft's most "modular" yet. Having never really been comfortable with the idea of a single, monolithic desktop OS offering, Microsoft has offered multiple desktop OSes in the marketplace ever since the days of Windows NT 3.1, with completely different code bases until they were unified in Windows 2000. Unification isn't necessarily a good thing, however; Windows Vista is a sprawling, complex OS."
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"When Windows 7 launches sometime after the start of 2010, the desktop OS will be Microsoft's most 'modular' operating system to date. That's not necessarily a good thing, of course; Windows Vista is a sprawling, complex OS."
Which completely alters the intent of the original (unification not necessarily being a good thing, as opposed to modularization).
The images appear to be incorrect.
If you look at the first image, it has two times, 54 seconds and 1 minute 25 seconds. The second time is shown at well over double the length of the first, even though it only took ~50% longer. If you look closely, you will see that 1:25 got placed at 1.25, and 0:54 got placed at 0.54, hence the error.
Any of the images where the minutes are different are going to be skewed a fair amount. The error will decrease as the minute difference increases.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but I'm a dumbass. You can't set the ".doc" file to be an "exefile" from the HTTP header. You have to find some mime-type that makes it execute instead. I've tryed "application/octet-stream", but that doesn't work. I'm not sure what mime-type you would have to use.
As far as I can tell (someone please correct me if I'm wrong), you can still install your old driver. You will only be disallowed if it causes severe stability problems.
Basically, you can install any driver you like, unless it is found to have stability problems. Drivers don't need to be certified to be installed, they only need to be certified for Microsoft to put them on their site.
Also, as far as I know as I know this is an "opt-in" system. Drivers aren't disabled by default, they are only disabled when they have a history of crashing.