OSNews > Thread > "RE[2]: who cares" by superstoned

Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 30th Sep 2006 20:04 UTC

From the kernel to the shell, Windows Vista is a very different OS than XPSP2. How so? Here, Charles interviews Architect Nar Ganapathy whose team of highly skilled engineers write the Windows IO system, driver frameworks and related technologies. So, what, exactly, is new in Windows Vista with regard to IO? What does it mean, exactly, to users and developers? Tune in. Learn.

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RE[2]: who cares

by superstoned on Sun 1st Oct 2006 10:46 UTC in reply to "RE: who cares"

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2005-07-07

yeah, right, that's why the hardware requirements trippled.

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RE[3]: who cares

by OddFox on Sun 1st Oct 2006 17:52 in reply to "RE[2]: who cares"

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2005-10-05

If you have the necessary hardware to run Vista, it's most likely going to run better for you on the same hardware than XP because of how it better utilizes modern hardware.

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RE[4]: who cares

by superstoned on Sun 1st Oct 2006 20:34 in reply to "RE[3]: who cares"

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2005-07-07

So it'll feel faster? That's good indeed. Well, we'll see what the performance of Vista will be. I'm quite sure it won't beat Linux/KDE, tough, as those get noticeably faster every release ;-)

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