On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 19:57:20 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:51:25 +0100, [H]omer wrote:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> WinFS is Dead
>>
>> Here's a genuine query for the Winvocates; no troll:
>>
>> Name just one compelling reason to upgrade from XP to Vista.
>
> Name one compelling reason to upgrade to Fedora Core 6
Not a valid comparison. Fedora Core 5 > Fedora Core 6 is a free upgrade.
XP > Vista is quite the opposite. But, to answer your question, someone
might want to use GNOME 2.16 (though FC6 is still in the early
stages--still hasn't gotten through the first round of beta testing).
> , or SUSE 10
- AppArmor
- Xen 3.0
- XGL
- much more
> or OSX
> 10.4...
>
> Vista was WAY too ambitious in many ways, and despite the cancellation or
> delaying of a number of technologies, it's still got a lot. Of course,
> many of those technologies will be back ported to XP, which makes it less
> critical to upgrade, but that doesn't change the fact that those
> technologies were created for Vista.
>
> Technologies that will be backported to XP: Avalon, Indigo, Windows
> Workflow.. pretty much the whole WinFX stack.
>
> Technologies unique to Vista (User Account Protection, BitLocker, Protected
> Mode IE, 3D Accelerated UI, Desktop Search integration (ie, all the apps
> that ship with the OS will support quicksearch (this is not WinFS but more
> like Google Desktop Search, Beagle or Spotlight)), all the various
> acceleration technologies like SuperFetch, ReadyBoost and ReadyDrive, The
> Sidebar, the new "instant on" sleep mode that's more like hibernate, new
> applets like a comprehensive backup program, Speech Recognition, etc..
That hardly sounds worth $100, let alone whatever Microsoft will be
charging.
>
> Plus, there are some tchnologies for use with new hardware, like SideShow,
> that allows you to access critical information without turning on your PC
> from laptops that have sideshow hardware.
>
> Oh, there's also a number of new or improved apps, like Media Player 11,
> Windows Media Center, etc..
>
> Despite what's been killed, there's still a ton of things in Vista that are
> new.
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