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[Theguynextdoor]

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1931914,00.asp

First off I'd like to start out by saying, that I've NEVER been hyped about ANY software product. Not even games.

But I'm so looking forward to Windows Vista. The Networking, Audio, Kernal, Aero Glass, and the new UI are so badass.

I'm wish I could find a beta to try. But everybody on campus has the Longhorn/Vista beta.

 

[thehstrybean]

Interesting...I only wish that AeroGlass would work on more mobile computers. My laptop has an ATI XPRESS 200 card in it, and in the beta nothing worked. Sure, cool minimizing effects were there, but nothing cool. I hope MS fixes this so that all computers with the DX 9 & 128mb can use it...

 

[kamper]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=34&threadid=1814106&enterthread=y

 

[Nothinman]

Being a Linux guy I'm obviously biased, but I don't really see anything to get hyped about in there. I also find it funny that MS is adding things like the bread-crumb paths and type-ahead find that have been available in Nautilus and FireFox respectively, for some time now. And changing the name of Outlook Express to Windows Mail seems like they're copying some of Apple's naming conventions. And Aero Glass is cool, but with the recent demo of XGL from Novell it's not nearly as earth shattering as it could have been. And on top of that XGL will run better on lower hardware, infact the first demo was done on an older notebook with a mobile ATI card in it.

And quotes like "The kernel, networking stack, and the way that most other OS features (audio, video, input devices) interact with the kernel have been completely rewritten with security and stability as the primary concern." make me uneasy about the article because they mean nothing. AFAIK, every object in the kernel has had an ACL attached to it since NT4, if MS wasn't using them properly it's their own fault.

And the fact that the default user will now be unpriviledged and they're moving more drivers out of the kernel is cool too, but those should have been done years ago.

 

[nweaver]

I would tell you to look up a bit, there is a handy search box...I think this is the same article starting several multipage threads.

 

[Theguynextdoor]

Damn delete.

 

[Markbnj]

Being a Linux guy I'm obviously biased, but I don't really see anything to get hyped about in there.

The thing to get hyped about is that these changes are now coming to an operating system that people use .

 

[Nothinman]

The thing to get hyped about is that these changes are now coming to an operating system that people use .

I guess I'm not a person then, because it's not one that I use.

 

[gruven]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

I guess I'm not a person then, because it's not one that I use.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

 

[nweaver]

Originally posted by: Markbnj

Being a Linux guy I'm obviously biased, but I don't really see anything to get hyped about in there.

The thing to get hyped about is that these changes are now coming to an operating system that people use .

Yes, and they are only coming 4-8 years behind the *nix curve (all except aero...and I don't use S/W for pretty looks)