Re: Vista

Michael Mattias wrote:
"tim Josling" <tejgcc_nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message >
Vista is far more resource intensive than older versions of Microsoft
Windows.

I think you took an older posting and simply replaced EITHER "Windows 95", "Windows 98", "Windows ME", "Windows NT", Windows 2000" or "Windows XP" (depending on the age of your source) with "Vista."

I don't know - I remember, in the NT line, that 4 was quicker (and had that spiffy new UI) than 3.51, and Windows 2000 was even better than 4. I know that Pete's praised XP as a near-perfect OS, and I'll have to say that I somewhat agree. I don't think it's that the OS itself is inherently better (and it *was* more resource-intensive than W2K), I think the convergence of the underlying OS code, vendor support, and hardware capability came together nicely.

Vista? Well, it overpowers today's hardware (unless you get close to top-of-the-line), and the vendor support is taking some time. I think Microsoft got buy-in based on their DRM and HD capabilities, but didn't realize (fully) how long it would take vendors to develop fully compliant software. Heck, we *still* don't have VPN for our Vista machines at work. We're being told February - that's a year after release! Couple all that with a new underlying code base, and the proliferation of 64-bit machines combined with Vista's lack of support for 16-bit programs on 64-bit machines, you've got - well, what you've got. :)

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