01 Mar 2006
Why Vista Won't Suck

Almost 12 years ago my fellow coders and I gathered in a theater in Indianapolis, rented by Microsoft, to get the inside scoop on the new OS they were coming out with. You may have heard of it: Windows 95.

It was going to be secure, much more so than DOS. Remember all those bad DOS virii? They'd be impossible in Windows 95! It would be equally impossible for an errant application to crash the whole machine, as was frequently the case in the then current Windows 3.1.

And about three years later, when Windows 95 was practically a smoking ruin, we gathered again to hear about an amazing new OS called "Windows NT 4.0" - finally, Windows would be absolutely secure and impregnable!

And so it goes ...

ExtremeTech is running an article on the new features of Windows Vista and why it is a must upgrade for all Windows users. They take apart the marketing hype and tell you what exactly to expect in Windows Vista. They specifically pick out less-hyped features like a kernel which has new Heap Management and details on SuperFetch, which is Vista's application cache

(link) [Slashdot]

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