I had the early developers Beta of Vista - and it is pretty and fast (you
have to have a 3D card to run it - and unlike Windows/XP, Vista natively
makes full(er) use of it. I took Vista off fairly quickly - but IIRC, one
problem was drivers - it can use XP WMD drivers ok - but if they haven't
been WMD'd (Microsoft tested and certified) it didn't like them. But
fortunately, it did like most of my h/w - it used its drivers for my webcam
rather than the non-wmd'd drivers that shipped with my webcam.
I seem to recall that, in quite a few ways, vista 'felt' more like Linux
than XP does. Nowadays, I use XP-MCE which is fine - except that I have to
uninstall and reinstall my webcam on almost every power-up, and for some
reason best known to MS, the webcam gets treated as a network device - but
its drivers don't like it. I assume that on startup, XP is trying to use the
webcam to get the PC's IP address before my network card gets initialised
properly - since the cam gets initailised first and that attempts at net
access causes it's driver to understandably throw a wobbly.
Allan
PS No trees were harmed in the sending of this message and a very large
number of electrons were asked their permission to be terribly
inconvenienced. (And threw a party for them afterwards for being really cool
about it).
Disrupting the unnatural balance that you, as a conscious human being and a
confused mass of energy, have created.
-Disturb the mind -
>From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] MS Vista
>Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 05:53:13 -0500
>
>
>
>Ali Shah wrote:
>
> > ... You can actually install Vista on most any
> > type of computer. However, for example if you install
> > it on a PC running Windows 2000 it will downgrade
> > features.
>
>I'm confused. I thought Vista was the OS to replace XP. Are we talking
>virtual machines here? If so, how so on most any type of computer?
>
> >
> > Another feature is the live icons. When you move your
> > mouse along the taskbar - you actually see a thumbnail
> > of what is open. If you are watching a video- the
> > video will actually be playing within the thumbnail.
>
>Ouch! A video horespower hog.
>
> >
> > When you resize a window.....instead of cutting the
> > document up...the document will resize along with the
> > window. For example when creating a Powerpoint
> > slide...the entire slide will decrease in size.
>
>Ouch! A video horsepower hog.
>
> >
> > Completely redesigned memory management,
>
>Uh, oh! Danger, danger, Will Robinson. When IBM and MS were working on
>OS/2 I once had 10 IBM developers and 10 MS developers working for 3
>weeks trying to find a single memory management bug. Do the math. 60
>man weeks for one problem. Hint. It wasn't in the IBM code.
>
>
> > and even allows you to cache using the
> > memory of a USB thumbdrive.
>
>Probably allows other silly things as well.
>
> >
> > Also future server OS's will be 64bit. Interesting how
> > 16bit to 32bit was a no brainer. However, 32bit to
> > 64bit is taking a little longer to become the norm.
>
>Probably because Intel, in its perpetual love affair with non-linear
>addressing, tried to break the 32 bit barrier with another silly memory
>scheme. We we're waiting for Intel in catchup mode. If AMD had more
>market clout we'd probably be much further along.
>
>Chuck Norcutt
>
>
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