Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 18th Apr 2008 11:38 UTC
When Vista was released, and the first reviews started to trickle in, it became apparent that Vista was a massive release - not only in terms of money spent on it by Microsoft and the amount of promotion, but also the operating system itself. It was huge, and it felt as such too. Despite what many have been saying the past year, Vista is, in fact, much more than just XP with a new theme. Basically every framework and feature has been rewritten, lots of new ones have been added, and, according to some, the process of modularisation has started with Vista (and Server 2008). It may come as no surprise that all these changes resulted in a whole boatload of bugs and breakage, which led many people to conclude that Vista was simply not as "done" as it should have been when released. Steve Ballmer confirmed these sentiments in a speech at Microsoft's Most Valuable Professionals conference in Seattle.
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Well ... he said it was big (and it is ... on disk the bare Vista OS is ~ three times the size of a full Linux distribution including applications) ... but even he apparently doesn't know what is in it that is taking up all that room ... or at least, if he does know, he isn't telling us.
It is sure hard to figure out what features it actually has that takes up all that size on disk. "
100% agree; and for the same amount of space Vista uses up, you can have a full blown development installation with all the bells and whistles.
Now, some would claim its due to 'less drivers' - I call bull to those; Linux (like MacOS X, Solaris and *BSD's) include large number of generic drivers which developers build their own drivers on, without need to replicate large sections of code over and over and over again. It seems that in my experience, in the Windows world, a 40mb (or larger) driver download is considered 'acceptable'.