Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 19th May 2006 13:13 UTC, submitted by Brad Wardell
Brad Wardell writes us: "Windows Vista Beta 2 is nearly here and now seems as good a time as any to take a look at where things stand with Microsoft's next-generation operating system. As this article makes clear, Windows Vista has a lot of potential - it is a major upgrade. But it also has some major issues to overcome prior to release."
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2005-07-06
The networking stack is not new. It has a bunch of new functions added on top, but the stack itself is the same stuff the lifted from BSD for XP.
This isn't true. The new stack was written from scratch. To answer the previous poster, it's a new dual-mode TCP/IP stack. There's also a new native wireless architecture, enhancements to existing APIs and systems such as WinHTTP, WinInet and NDIS, and new extensibility frameworks including for wireless extensibility.
Edit: Also, XP's stack has no BSD code. Only some of the utilities like FTP.exe use BSD code and these were remnants from when MS used a BSD-derived stack from Spider Systems back in the NT 3.x days. MS has rewritten the stack since then, IIRC in NT 4.x, definitely in Win2k (and continuing in XP for IPv6), and now with Vista (combining v4 and v6 and including MSR tech as well as supporting several new RFCs).
Edited 2006-05-19 20:51