"All promised features were cut from Vista." This is a commonly heard complaint about Windows Vista on the internet. While there certainly is a lot to complain about when it comes to Windows Vista, the mythical 'cancelled features' certainly is not one of them. Let me explain why.
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Member since:2006-07-04
That article only mentions "more efficient file system" and "more efficient communications systems". I assume the former refers to WinFS, the latter I guess refers to WCF, which shipped. So, yet again, an article claiming that a bunch of innovations were stripped can only come up with WinFS as an example.
BTW, that article is a joke. Read the other items on the list ( http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140583-page,1-c,techindustrytrend... ) and you'll see products that most wouldn't consider disappointing, let alone among the 15 most disappointing products of the year, yet they are there just because. I mean, what are things like iPhone, Leopard, Office 2k7, and Yahoo doing on the list? Other than to generate hits, that is (and of course making Vista #1 on the list guarantees maximum hits).
Member since:2006-04-26
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2006-04-26
This just came from a PC World article in which Vista was named the most disappointing product of 2007:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140583-page,5-c,techindustrytrend...
It's just that Vista isn't all that good. Many of the innovations the operating system was supposed to bring--like more efficient file and communications systems--got tossed overboard as Microsoft struggled to get the OS out the door, some three years after it was first promised. Despite its hefty hardware requirements, Vista is slower than XP.
Edited to add italics around the quote...
Edited 2007-12-18 14:26