Digg users just "dugg" an item from Silicon Valley Sleuth to the top of their queue. The article asks boldly, "is Windows Vista really vapourware?" Although the article discounts some legitimate strides Microsoft is making with things like IE7, Least-Privileged User Account, and Windows Defender, there's little doubt that Windows Vista is a far cry from what we were promised a few short years ago.
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Member since:2005-07-06
There's no "etc". WinFS and Monad were the only things "pulled" from being released WITH Vista. That's it. The end. I'm not sure why people don't understand this.
Vista is not what they "promised" many years ago, but you're kind of an idiot if you believed it would be. Does it suck? yeah. Should you get all up in arms over it? No. Just take what Microsoft promises with a grain of salt and reserve judgement until they release the product and you try it.
Also, a good place to find out information on new MS products with a bit less of the marketing crap is channel9. It's still MS employees, which are usually very enthusiastic about what they are working on. But still, they are not profressional marketers, and give a much better and realistic view of the products than marketing.
Edited 2006-01-28 17:56
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2006-01-04
"I wonder which of the third party applications out there can rewrite the audio stack and put it into user space, so that individual applications can take control over their own audio settings."
Off topic, but, this is one of the features I can't wait for on Windows Vista. It should hopefully increase stability, and almost certainly make doing audio work as a non-admin usable.
ALSA on Linux is not directly in userspace but it supports changing nearly all the config in userspace and the kernel space is the minimal part... unfortunately Linux's audio software currently doesn't compete with Windows audio software...
Back on topic: This article is a bit of a flame, but it does bring up good points. WinFS, that new console stuff, etc. was what I was looking forward to most, but they've been yanked...