[mdlug] Cracks in the Evil Empire

[Michael Corral]

Ingles, Raymond a ecrit:
>> From: Joseph Vartanian
>> 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.
>
> Can you name some of them? I'm not aware of many beyond the user
>interface stuff.

No one hates Microsoft more than me (not even you, Ray!:)), but
Joseph is right that Vista does have some new things besides the GUI
changes that are getting all the attention. One interesting thing is
the new Windows Imaging Format and Windows Deployment Servives, which
allows easier disk imaging and OS deployment than before. Sure, it's
nothing all that new to UNIX (e.g. Solaris' Jumpstart, HP-UX's Ignite,
Red Hat's Kickstart, etc, long ago beat it to the punch), but it's
fairly new to Windows. The way it's usually done now, before Vista, is
to use something like Altiris for mass automated remote OS deployments.
But with Vista that (supposedly) won't be necessary anymore. The new
method also allows modularized image building, so you don't need to
maintain lots of large disk images just for a few changes. I haven't
used all this, but I have heard about it, and for "enterprise"
customers it's probably seen as a good thing.

There are also a bunch of new administrative and diagnostic tools,
stuff the average home user probably doesn't care about but will
likely be of interest to IT personnel. I personally have no desire
to use Vista; I try to minimize my contact with Windows OSes as
much as possible. I know some people who have used it and said that
it's not as bad as they had heard. Not exactly a ringing endorsement.
But not complete condemnation either. Doesn't matter to me, I'll still
be using Linux no matter what.

Michael