[mdlug] Cracks in the Evil Empire

[Joseph Vartanian]

On 6/27/07, Garry Stahl <tesral at comcast.net> wrote:
> Vista only Titles cracked.
>
> <http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6146&Itemid=2>
>
> I wonder how long before someone gets XP to spoof as Vista for the
> "Windows Live" stuff?  Frankly, I wonder how much difference there
> really is outside of the pretty and the DRM?
>

A lot of people have been saying that Vista is just XP with a pretty
new interface.  I've even seen several IT folks at work saying that.
This is wrong.  There are many dramatic changes in Vista under the
hood, but most of them aren't obvious to your typical user.

I haven't had time to really take a good look at Vista yet, but from
what little time I've spent playing with it, it's easy to see that
they changed a hell of a lot of things.  I was really looking more at
how the OS works and not the GUI parts that everyone sees.

Just to get you to maybe believe what I'm saying, think about
this...Why would they need 6 years to develop this OS if all they did
was to add 3D effect to the GUI and some DRM?  I'm not defending (or
bashing) Vista...I'm just pointing out that it's not Windows XP 3D
Edition like most people seem to think.

-Joseph