[mdlug] Interesting information about Windows "7"

[Ingles, Raymond]

> From: Michael Newman

> The other major changes had to do with security, which is much better,

 Well, better, certainly. In practice, I'm not sure it's "much" better.
UAC is much more 'annoying' than 'secure'. :->

> and the file system that is really incrimental.

 They dumped almost all of the file system stuff, from what I heard. What
changes *did* make it into Vista, anyway?

> The new ui was quite beautiful really but any one who happened to have  
> a subpar graphics card (which were and still are being sold on  
> consumer level computers) found vista slow and obnoixious 

 I know that the Dell c510 we have does not have a stellar graphics card,
but I'd like to make two points:

 1. Even with Vista Home Basic (no Aero, no spiffy UI tricks) it was still
dog slow, even though we'd bumped it from the minimum 512MB to 1GB of RAM.
I disabled a large amount of cruft and it was still painful to use. The UI
was definitely *not* the only bloated part of Vista. The same machine runs
quite well on XP.

 2. Ubuntu 7.10 has no trouble running the Compiz gui stuff on the same
machine, quite snappily. I can honestly say that running Ubuntu off of a
CD was faster than running Vista off the hard drive.

 Vista was Microsoft's "PS/2 moment". See here:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=409674&cid=21952802

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles                                           (313) 227-2317

  "The Justice Department lifted a requirement Monday that the FBI
  ensure the accuracy and timeliness of information about criminals
      and crime victims before adding it to the country's most
        comprehensive law enforcement database." (03/24/2003)
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22955-2003Mar25.html

 A case of mistaken identity led the FBI to detain a British retiree
       in a South African jail for three weeks. (02/28/2003)
          http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2799791.stm
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