Vista is bad. Not just misinfo. It's threading is iffy, the kernel support isn't there, info and programming guides given out to partners and devs is error prone, feature integration makes simple admin tasks a nightmare. It was bad from the Longhorn Alpha overlay to the inadequately tested RC. It still wasn't passing our WHQL testing at AMD when they launched.
And that's just my short list.
We only have two machines here at my current job that are running Vista. Both are having issues with printing, network apps, interoperability with other app suites, and both had to be re-loaded when MS pushed out that patch that killed AMD based machines by overwriting the wrong *.sys file.
Plus, the new desktop looks like it was designed by someone on prozac.
Oooops. LOL.
What do you mean by “its thread is iffy?” Threading was a big improvement in Vista as XP was largely a single thread of execution. Are you referring to kernel support for threading? (It most certainly is there.) Maybe you mean something else. I don’t know. What you list looks more like “hey look at me I know computers” jargon rather than something that actually makes technical sense.
For what it’s worth, you may want to look into HP as the culprit for that “patch.”
And by the way, wasn’t that an XP issue?
They are all about revenue and they get most of that ( I think) from home desktops and simple minded corporate desktops...
Since you seem to be where there are some real demands on an Operating System....I can understand the complaints....
Being an old Main Frame guy and having worked with MVS and the elaborate SMP ordeal....Windows is still a kludge...only thing more so was the abortion of IBM PROFS...and I installed some of that mess....
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Link to Wikipedia on what SMP is about: