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Re: Microsoft Touts Vista's Restart Manager Feature

__/ [Roy Culley] on Friday 02 December 2005 21:36 \__

> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1895276,00.asp
> 
>     Microsoft Corp. is working on a significant new feature for
>     Windows Vista, known as Restart Manager, which is designed to
>     update parts of the operating system or applications without
>     having to reboot the entire machine.
> 
> Wow, crashta la vista is going to have a new feature after all. MS
> innovation never fails to amaze? :-)

I suppose this should be considered a warning sign. Critical patches are
planned even a year before the product is outta' door. That's reassuring.
The powerful features of Vista are associated with plastering the 'ugly
bits'. Example:

http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2005/12/researcher_expo.html

Roy

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