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Vista, with all the extra overhead the larger kernel is running BARELY FUNCTIONS on a machine such as that. We are talking MAYBE a 1Ghz processor, (more likely 800Mgz) and probably either 128 or 256 Mb of RAM. 8 year old hardware would be hardware from 2000. Not without using a tool such as vLite to essentially strip Vista down to bare bones. Heck, you can run Vista usably on hardware up to about 8 years old, with minor upgrades. Interesting that about the time a MS OS begins to hit the mature stage it's phased out. In fact it introduces a risk, as would any new OS. SO you enjoy your toys, Microsoft's lies, and the nice blinders you have bolted onto your brain, but Vista was not ready, and brings nothing new or useful to the corporate world.

Creating something that can't be used in a practicable manner is bad, and stupid, and deceitful. Shit, I could write an OS, Again, that won't be able to use all it's capabilities for 4 years from release and I would not call it ready or done. Not being able to run all the features of a product means the product doesn't work. 'Suckered by Intel'? no, they weren't they knew what they where doing and they knew they where being deceitful. I have been up to my elbows in the bits of vista for a while. I worked at a company that had a MS partnership agreement for pre-beta Vista and pre-beta office.

I remember in 99 when they where talking about it's development progress in the Microsoft paper. I have been following what is not called Vista pre-longhorn. Normally I don't like waving the 'I've been doing X for this long' dick waving, but since you bring it up.

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I mean really, calling stuff that other systems have had for years, or was available through other programs in windows 'new features' is a bit rich. Those are just toys, I am talking about the real good stuff that was scrapped. You must not do anything interesting in IT. Vista was supposed to be released over 4 years ago, so, Yes. I know there are a lot of under-the-hood changes, but certainly for the loss of performance, ballooning of requirements, complexity and frustration, certainly it can't be justified. It's not useful apps or productivity tools (everything Windows comes with, I replace).

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So, if Windows Vista is really just 'XP with prettyness and UAC' why is it an extra 450M? It's not drivers (I wiped out everything that Vista comes with). The result was so absurd that I just wiped it out without bothering to test it. You can trim a Windows Vista installation (between 2GB-4GB, according to TPB) down to around 600M, trimming out all the crap that I personally couldn't afford to lose.

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Such installs, when automated, tend to take, in my experience, around ten minutes off a disk image in a VM, compared to an hour and a half for installation (not counting the time wasted when you don't know it's asking you a question because you're off being productive elsewhere), plus the hours and hours of installing drivers for networking and video, rebooting, updating Windows Update, rebooting, running Windows Update, rebooting, running Windows Update again, rebooting, and so on. This keeps a LOT of functionality that you don't need on mobile devices (mostly user space apps), and includes things like SP3, Windows Update updates, NVidia drivers, and so on. taking out the ATM networking and Trident drivers). You can trim a 600M Windows XP image down to about 120M if you know for sure you won't be using a lot of functionality, or 150M to keep all the functionality that 99% of users use (e.g.

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An additional benefit of Windows' departure from student library terminals saw the students cease 'hacking the setup to install and play games or trash the operating system.'' ' Stefyn said he was 'pleasantly surprised' to discover that the Kubuntu desktops ran some applications faster with Linux than when they ran on Windows. As an interesting tangent to this, there's also a story from a few days prior about Ubuntu replacing Windows for a school's library kiosks, getting good performance out of older hardware. Larry Dignan of ZDNet has his own take, and while he agrees, he suggests that the downfall of Windows will be slow and drawn-out. Spacefiddle writes 'Computerworld has an article about a presentation from Gartner analysts in Las Vegas claiming that Windows is 'collapsing', and that Microsoft 'must make radical changes to the operating system or risk becoming a has-been.' Michael Silver and Neil MacDonald provided an analysis of what went wrong with Vista, and what they feel Microsoft can and must do to correct its problems.