Will Current Windows Software Run On Vista?

[Nothinman]

Vmware most certainaly does instruction set emulation (for some instructions). Thats the whole point of the VT work, to remove that need.

Yes, it has to do some emulation but very little otherwise it would perform like crap (i.e. qemu and bochs).

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Vmware most certainaly does instruction set emulation (for some instructions). Thats the whole point of the VT work, to remove that need.

Yes, it has to do some emulation but very little otherwise it would perform like crap (i.e. qemu and bochs).

True, but that is not what you said

 

[spyordie007]

while we are arguing the semantics of *what* emulation is let's also continue on the topics of "themes".... :roll:

 

[Nothinman]

True, but that is not what you said

True, but VMWare was only 1 point out of 5.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: stampede96
Smilin, thanks for the respond. For the record though, I've been in the Mac world for a total of 14 months. I got sick of formatting Windows every month (and still am)

Ouch. Yeah you shouldn't really have to do that with Windows (or any OS). Not sure what's going on there.


Don't confuse any of my arguments with a distaste for Macs. I think they are some of the best machines out there.

 

[Cynicist]

Originally posted by Smilin
You're not really going to see XP code that needs a frickin emulator to run on Vista

DX9 games?

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: Cynicist

Originally posted by Smilin
You're not really going to see XP code that needs a frickin emulator to run on Vista

DX9 games?

...should run fine under DX 10+

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: spyordie007
The majority of the security breaches and issues have stemmed from poor administration, not a bad system.

The systems were setup poorly to begin with (on install), with bad code, and no proactive security measures. Yes, a lot of the blame goes to administrators, but once Microsoft realized that 99% of the population is too stupid to secure their machines they should have tried to do something to help.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Smilin
yeah, once Kerberos was plugged in (without an OS rewrite mind you) things really went to hell huh?

An imcompatible implimentation of kerberos mind you.

No, the security problems began long before that.

Vista isn't going to have any compatibility issues that come anywhere near what a long time Mac user is acustomed to.

I'll believe it when I don't see any compatibility options in Vista, and all (relatively recent) win32 software works perfectly out of the box.

 

[scottws]

Originally posted by: Cynicist

Originally posted by Smilin
You're not really going to see XP code that needs a frickin emulator to run on Vista

DX9 games?

That was a false rumor.

 

[Nothinman]

An imcompatible implimentation of kerberos mind you.

Not really, the Kerberos spec set aside a portion of the packet for vendor specific information and MS decided to use that to hold NT group information. It would have been better if they would have documented the format of the blob they stuck in there, but AFAIK there's nothing requiring them to do that.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Vista isn't going to have any compatibility issues that come anywhere near what a long time Mac user is acustomed to.

I'll believe it when I don't see any compatibility options in Vista, and all (relatively recent) win32 software works perfectly out of the box.

k, try not to FUD until such time though

Thanks!