On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:50:31 +0900, Rafael wrote:
> RonB wrote:
> > On Sat 10 Feb 2007 12:48:29p, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> >> Dim Vista
> >>
> >> ,----[ Quote ]
> >> | Windows Vista: more than five years in the making, more than 50
> >> | millio lines of code. The result? A vista slightly more inspiring
> >> | than the one over the town dump. The new slogan is: "The 'Wow'
> >> | Starts Now," and Microsoft touts new features, many filched
> >> | shamelessly from Apple's Macintosh. But as with every previous
> >> | version, there's no wow here, not even in ironic quotes. Vista is
> >> | at best mildly annoying and at worst makes you want to rush to
> >> | Redmond, Wash. and rip somebody's liver out.
> >> | Vista is a fading theme park with a few new rides, lots of
> >> | patched-up old ones and bored kids in desperate need of adult
> >> | supervision running things. If I can find plenty of problems
> >> | in a matter of hours, why can't Microsoft? Most likely answer:
> >> | It did--and it doesn't care.
> >> `----
> >>
> >> http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2007/0226/050.html?partner=yahoomag
> >>
> >> Finally. An objective (not promotional) review from a major
> >> publication. Due to be released in February 26th.
> >
> > Sounds typically Microsoft. Promising the moon, delivering a picture
> of a moon rock -- and using their early buyers as beta testers.
> > I haven't been keeping tract (either of the hype or released
> reality), but what percentage of the promised new features actually made
> it into Vista? And how many of those have been in Linux or Mac OS for
> years now?
>
> I saw Internet Explorer 7 (a "mandatory security upgrade for XP"), it
> has features that were already implemented in Mozilla, like multitab
> browsing and one click multisite search selector feature, which I have
> been using for a while in FireFox. Now Vista has multiple desktops.
> Linux had that with the Gnome, KDE and several other windows managers
> for the past 9 or 10 years.
>
> Mepis Linux (and others) use less than 100 MB of memory unloaded. Vista
> uses over 500 MB. I switch frequently between Fedora and Windows XP.
> The net I/O transfer responsiveness and transfer rate for Fedora is
> slightly faster than XP.
>
> IMHO, it must be the price the proprietary is paying for using higher
> level language modular database calling techniques for under-the-bonnet
> systems coding, requirement for additional in-stream virus checking and
> concentrating on speed of writing software code, versus optimising for
> throughput and responsiveness.
>
> As soon as I can figure how to port EA games like Command and Conquer
> and Sims2 to Linux, I will be able to dump Windows XP. A Vista going to
> I am not.
I run C&C Generals under Cedega. I'm pretty sure Sims2 works as well.
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