"Compared with Mac OS X 10.4, Windows Vista feels clunky and not very intuitive, almost as though it's still based on DOS (or at least the internal logic that made up DOS)."
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Posted on 01/25/2007 12:26:48 AM PST by Swordmaker
Compared with Mac OS X 10.4, Windows Vista feels clunky and not very intuitive, almost as though it's still based on DOS (or at least the internal logic that made up DOS).
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"Compared with Mac OS X 10.4, Windows Vista feels clunky and not very intuitive, almost as though it's still based on DOS (or at least the internal logic that made up DOS)."
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It's an old PC, the $200 processor+heatsink has given this "old-system" new life. :)
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The price is enough to keep me away for now. I will eventually have to upgrade since I eventually have no choice.
That's a good decision on the part of Microsoft.
MINIX3 takes that idea to the point of having only 4,000 lines of code running in kernel mode:
MINIX 3 is a new open-source operating system designed to be highly reliable, flexible, and secure. It is loosely based somewhat on previous versions of MINIX, but is fundamentally different in many key ways. MINIX 1 and 2 were intended as teaching tools; MINIX 3 adds the new goal of being usable as a serious system on resource-limited and embedded computers and for applications requiring high reliabilityThis new OS is extremely small, with the part that runs in kernel mode under 4000 lines of executable code. The parts that run in user mode are divided into small modules, well insulated from one another. For example, each device driver runs as a separate user-mode process so a bug in a driver (by far the biggest source of bugs in any operating system), cannot bring down the entire OS. In fact, most of the time when a driver crashes it is automatically replaced without requiring any user intervention, without requiring rebooting, and without affecting running programs. These features, the tiny amount of kernel code, and other aspects greatly enhance system reliability.
Vista will have to wait until our corporate gurus give it the okay. They like XP for now. I hope security is what it is claimed to be, and that Microsoft's vision for it doesn't turn Vista into a crawllng slug.
I'm waiting at home this morning for the delivery of a new T60p Thinkpad. I was going to refresh my Mac laptop, but I am doing too much .NET R&D these days to take advantage of OS X. The SP1 for VS2005 is optimized for dual cores. I hope the T60p does right by it.
Bloatware ultimate.
"Windows Vista is essentially warmed-over Windows XP"...
OUCH!!
Well, it wasn't all, until Microsoft started dumping features to make the deadline. Vista is where I get off the Microsoft train - all my future computers will be Macs. I'll use the XP machines I have until they fall apart, but they won't support Vista well and I don't intend to add any more hardware upgrades. I'll just turn them into Linux servers when the time is right. ;)
They gave it a 7.8 out of 10. You have to wonder how bad it would have to be to actually get a "poor" rating.
Maybe "very good" is relative -- "Well guys, yes, it sucks, it's a piece of crap, it has nothing new of value, and they've actually made some things worse. But what did you expect, it is from Microsoft, at least it doesn't crash twice a day!!!"
Its nothing new. Like the Zune, its clunky, 5 years too late and not innovative.
That is one seriously lukewarm reveiw.
Ray Ozzie: the biggest douchebag on Planet Earth.
But given that OS X can run well on a far weaker system than Vista, I guess that at least balances out.
I'm running Tiger on 6-year-old Macs AND it's an IMPROVEMENT (generally) over the OS 9 for which they were designed.
Wall Street Journal: Vista: Worthy, Largely Unexciting
Vista the 'longest suicide note in history': NZ researcher
The WSJ article notes that Vista is really nothing more than Mac OX-Lite. Nothing innovative.
Thanks. Good links.
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