Comments on: Vista to take a cue from budget Windows

Microsoft will put a feature from XP Starter, aimed at emerging markets, in the upcoming update.

[fred dunn]

Vista is just a waste of good resources...

Vista is a sad OS. It is trying to be what XP is functionally and what the Mac UI is along with other "bling". the problem with that is the incredible amount of resources required to get a halfway decent response out of it when you are running apps like Office (2003).
Since they redesigned the OS supposedly from the "ground up" with a whole new codebase then there are going to be that many more coding errors most likely resulting in susceptible vulnerabilities. Also due to MS allowing the world to have the beta people are picking it apart as we speak.
It used to be that the "black hats" were in it for the challenge but that is not the case anymore, it all about money. So the same blackhats that are discovering security vulnerabilities in Vista are NOT disclosing them to MS or anybody else, rather they are waiting for the Vista userbase to build then they will be selling these vulnerabilities to the highest bidder.
I won't be going to Vista as I think it is another Windows ME. It is just another version to skip. If MS doesn't come out with something better than this then they are through.
If the server version is anything like Vista then it too will be a skip version.

[rcrusoe]

Re: from the ground up

Here's my question. IF Vista was designed from the "ground up",
why is it that Vista is having to be patched for almost every XP
security problem that is found.

That alone makes me doubt that Vista is anything except another
layer of patches on the old NT core.

[jakenhauser]

What???

First off, have you even used it?? I am running it on a two year old single core P4 with a gig of ram and RC 2 runs better than XP. It does use slightly and I stress slighty more resources, but on my tired machine it does not degrade performance in the least. If you have used it and are basing your opinions on that fine, but if you haven't, how can you possibly know what you are talking about!!!

[cnutsucks]

Vista Schmista...Just Another Hacker Tool

In case any of you folks have not installed the beta, Vista is nothing but a hacking and spying OS
http://www.teckmagazine.com/content/view/690/43/
for M$. It's slow, outdated and has more holes in it than any previous version of Windows. Don't believe me, then go to M$'s site and install the beta. It will render your system unusable.

[djcaseley]

Through?

"If MS doesn't come out with something better than this then they are through."

Uh-huh. Microsoft are going down the pan. They'll run out of money, and everyone will use a competing O/S on their x86 systems.

Forget it. We're locked into Microsoft for the forseeable future, and Vista will be a success because people will buy it because its new.

Haven't tried it yet. Can't really comment on the resources it takes. If its too high, I'll put it off. Windows XP took years before it properly saturdated the market.

[huddie klein]

Feature

So NOT limmiting the amount of open windows is a feature? In fact a trickle up INNOVATION!?

I would laugh if this was not so very, very sad...

[TravP]

Talk about misreading

The video help feature, which was previously only in the Starter editions, is now being included in ALL versions of Vista. THAT is what was referred to as "trickle-up innovation". Not the relaxation of the open windows limitation.

Don't let anger cloud your reading comprehension.

[rmiecznik]

No lines on release date

One thing is for sure, you are not going to see people camp overnight to get this, most people will not even notice the release and a majority are fed way beyond repair.

I will await their next OS version, which I think will be their last, if they don't get their act together.

[jakenhauser]

Hmmmm

Another clueless poster. Probably someone whom has never used it. I use RC 2 and it runs better than my XP box, so get your facts straight. As far as it being as bad as M.E., in RC form it is already better than M.E.

[mgreere]

Yeah "innovation" lol!

Repackaging video help -- right... it fits in nicely with MS's
definition.

Innovation: Anything WE didn't do in the previous release.