Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 8th Jun 2007 03:44 UTC
"In "Windows Vista: more than just a pretty face," we began our extensive assessment of Windows Vista with a focus on the changes to the graphical framework of Windows. We also talked about improvements to the general Windows API, the media foundation, and improvements in sound. In what follows, we look at three remaining areas of major improvement for Vista: security, networking, and storage. At the end, we present the first round of our criticisms of the new OS. In the coming weeks, we will unveil our performance-oriented examination of the OS."
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RE[4]: I've been tainted.
by kaiwai on Fri 8th Jun 2007 23:48
in reply to "RE[3]: I've been tainted."
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There is nothing to compare here because MS dosen't post changelogs.
They might not provide a line by line changelog, but they do disclose what features they've added in their service pack/new release. Just look through MSDN and Channel9 resources for not only features (both superficial and kernel level/system level) added to Windows Vista but Windows Server as well.
Compare those to what Linux, OpenSolaris or FreeBSD provides; the issue isn't the number of features but the depth of features, and justification for charging the huge amount they do for what I consider features that are less than on par with free operating systems out there.
I guess I just don't see the point in what you have posted here.
The point the original poster was trying to get at is the fact that in 5 years of development and the huge development team that Microsoft has, he was expecting alot more to come from them. I don't blame him. When you have a jugganaut like Microsoft with $50billion cash, the issue it seems to me is that they don't want to make changes rather than not being able to.
Windows Vista could have been a break from the past, purge all the compatibility out the window, have a pure win32 without compromises - provide a clean path to upgrade, throw in a free virtual machine for customers to run their existing applications in a hosted Windows XP environment.
They could have done it, but they didn't. Rather than being a leader in the IT industry, they instead compromised resulting in a castrated operating system that was all sizzle and no steak.
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2005-11-13
I tried to explain what its like to use an OS that evolves rapidly like they did before Microsoft became a monopoly, even Microsoft, but I can't. Look at 5 years of changes in just the kernel on Linux since October 2001.
Thats about kernel 2.4.11 but ill only show it from 2.5
released over a year later than XP
There is nothing to compare here because MS dosen't post changelogs.
I'm sure if MS posted all the internal changelogs to the kernel, or even the entire OS and we could all read the little things like "added option a to command b" then it might paint a different picture.
I do feel that the release of vista was somewhat lacking for the amount of time they spent, that I agree with.
I guess I just don't see the point in what you have posted here.