Re: How workable is Vista?

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:29:47 -0400, "MC"
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One thing I really like is that Vista is ready to respond to mouse clicks almost the moment it boots up;
I don't have to wait for all the startup applications to finish before I can get responses to anything I do.
XP was notorious for sitting around 2 or 3 minutes with little things still starting up,
not letting you do anything.
With Vista, the startup apps may take the same 2 or 3 minutes but you can go ahead and
get started doing your work.

The first question, why on earth does the computer have to be booted ?
Why not just let the computer run through the night ?

I have been managing big VAX/VMS systems in the 1980/90s, in which the
question was which _year_ the next boot should be performed. I assume
that the situation was similar for any Unix system.

The Microsoft 9x family was quite useless for any serious
applications, but for instance NT 3.51 did not crash even if you
looked at it with the angry eye :-).

The problem with any Microsoft version is that it needs daily (or at
least weekly) security updates, which strangely also require a reboot.
For this reason, I do not recommend to my customers to use any Windows
based operating systems, unless a double/triple redundant system is
used (in which case you can boot one PC at a time for security
updates).

Paul

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