Vista loses another feature

[kamper]

http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5820706.html

The interesting thing, I thought, was this was reportedly the first thing that had been exploited in vista. Of course it's too early to judge the stuff for little holes, but it's funny 🙂

 

[Jassi]

In the end, vista will end up being a DRM package upgrade for Win XP 😉

 

[Link19]

Originally posted by: Jassi
In the end, vista will end up being a DRM package upgrade for Win XP 😉

In addition to a bloated pretty GUI that hogs your GPU resources which will probably degrade gaming performance. No way I'm upgrading to it. Stick to Windows XP! Windows XP will be the primary OS for at least the next decade until Linux catches up and over takes Micro$oft.

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: Link19

Originally posted by: Jassi
In the end, vista will end up being a DRM package upgrade for Win XP 😉

In addition to a bloated pretty GUI that hogs your GPU resources which will probably degrade gaming performance. No way I'm upgrading to it. Stick to Windows XP! Windows XP will be the primary OS for at least the next decade until Linux catches up and over takes Micro$oft.

That's what they said about XP. I'm sure microsoft will be intelligent and offer an option to disable their resource-intensive GUI. You can disable themes in XP, so why not Vista?

Of course if I'm wrong then yes, nobody will want to use this OS unless game companies pull a "this will only install on Vista period" thing on us.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Link19

Originally posted by: Jassi
In the end, vista will end up being a DRM package upgrade for Win XP 😉

In addition to a bloated pretty GUI that hogs your GPU resources which will probably degrade gaming performance. No way I'm upgrading to it. Stick to Windows XP! Windows XP will be the primary OS for at least the next decade until Linux catches up and over takes Micro$oft.

Unless Microsoft decides to end all support for WinXP after Vista is released. It'd be a bad business decision, but they can do it if they wanted to.


Linux does need to make some serious progress into becoming intuitive for the average user. Unfortunately, what is intuitive for your average programmer or computer engineer may be complex and confusing for the guy who still can't figure out a basic VCR, and that seems to be a majority of the population.

 

[stash]

Uh, it was never going to be in Vista. That was announced almost two months ago.

Even slashdot has that original announcement, although they convieniently forgot about it like everyone else when this non-story about a "virus" came out.

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/10/1956234&tid=201&tid=1&tid=218

 

[kamper]

Oh. The story implied that this was the first conclusive announcement. I hadn't been aware that it wasn't in the plans, although I never paid all that much attention anyways.