"Microsoft will move the graphics for its next version of Windows outside of the operating system's kernel to improve reliability, the software giant has told Techworld. Vista's graphics subsystem, codenamed Avalon and formally known as the Windows Presentation Foundation, will be pulled out the kernel because many lock-ups are the result of the GUI freezing, Microsoft infrastructure architect Giovanni Marchetti told us exclusively yesterday."
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Member since:2005-07-06
The event viewer is one of a few UI pieces that won't be fully implemented until Beta 2 (PnP is also still in development AFAIK). I'm not sure if it's included in current Betas, but you should expect MS to ship an upgrade compatibility checker as they've done for some time now with previous OSes. There will also be a hardware compatibility list published online as they've done for previous OSes as well. There are Logo guidelines for system builders online already.
If you're running XP SP2 with the firewall enabled (and preferably AU), it should be very secure. XP RTM should be as well though there's a case where the network stack could start before the firewall does (fixed in SP2). The security issues w/ XP aren't from cracking the firewall. Most result from users either not running the firewall (or any firewall) or from manually running malicious programs (compounded by most home users having Admin rights).
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2005-07-06
I have been testing Longhorn since the early alphas and till now logging is so bad and little improved to let you really know what is going underneath your system.
On Vista 52.59 which is the latest I revised eventvwr.exe didn't give me intutive informative info about why the system was hanging and the explorer.exe is so unstable, even letting windows find solutions about the hang was not solving the problem. Beside, I was able to install incompatible applications that let me mess up the system; this is ok for me but bad for computer savvy people who abuse their computers and are the source of the most unstability windows faces.
Try to install windows vista on incompatible system and you will have a freeze that will not return any errors what so ever, even BSOD is welcomed in this situations; still no informative messages to let me know which component is not compatible to let me replace it with compatible one ( eg in case of graphics cards, sound cards, NICs,modems, USB,RAID cards....etc); Indeed I need this feature for customers who wish to upgrade their systems to windows vista.
Beside all of this I agree with you that MS is changing these things you mentioned above but in reallity their solutions are not reliable (Do you remember their security hype, and how their OS will be very secure after implementing the firewall)