Star Vista/Server 2008 SP2 Beta To Be Opened to Public
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 2nd Dec 2008 23:31 UTC
Windows In late October, Microsoft announced the beta of the second service pack for Windows Vista and Server 2008. This beta was limited in audience, and today Microsoft has fixed that: it opened up the beta for MSDN and TechNet subscribers, and coming Thursday, it will be opened to the general public. The releases will be distributed via TechNet.
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RE[7]: Comment by flanque
by lemur2 on Wed 3rd Dec 2008 10:12 UTC in reply to "RE[6]: Comment by flanque"
lemur2
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2007-02-17

You don't get it. I was referring to Microsoft adding the performance enhancements to Vista that are in Windows 7 (since there seem to be some) and the incentive to buy Windows 7 would be other features which were missed out on in Vista.

So yeah, I did answer your question, thanks.


Oh, I do get it, let me assure you.

Here is what you were asking: "If they can say that Windows 7 will be faster than Vista then why cannot they put these improvements into Vista?"

I illustrated to you the precise reason why Microsoft cannot put these improvements into Vista, by asking you a question right back, to whit: "If Microsoft fix Vista, then why would you buy Windows 7?"

That went miles over your head, apparently.

You tried to respond by stating a reason why you might buy Windows 7 if Microsoft did NOT put these improvements into Vista.

Precisely my point.

BTW, a good quote recently from someone was along the lines of "Vista is a DRM platform dressed up as an OS". This BTW is another reason why Vista can't really be improved ... since Vista actually goes out of its way and spends a fair percentage of your CPU resource trying to stop you from doing things with your own machine. If Vista is not doing that, it is spending time (and your electricity and bandwidth, BTW) trying to continuously check if it should close shop on you and go all black because you changed a hard disk or connected a different monitor or something.

The main problems then with Vista is not so much what they left out, but rather what they put in and are refusing to take back out again.

BTW ... the solution Microsoft seems to be offering in Windows 7 is to remove a few useless applets from the default OS install!

http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Windows_7_to_Dump_E-Mail__Photo_Editi...

It would be laughable if it weren't so pathetic.

Edited 2008-12-03 10:32 UTC

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