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Re: [News] Vista ReadyBoost Might Do More Harm Than Good

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On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:07:49 +0200,
 Hadron Quark <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>> __/ [ Linonut ] on Sunday 15 April 2007 15:11 \__
>>> 
>>>> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o'
>>>> wisdom:
>>>>
>>>>> http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/5366
>>>>>
>>>>> Vista has been more damaging to Microsoft than Windows ME. Oh, dear.
>>>> Objection!  Witness rendering an opinion!
>>>>
>>>>    Steve wrote:
>>>>
>>>>    Our company recently purchased new computers from Dell, the hardware
>>>>    was much faster than our 'old' computers running XP.
>>>>
>>>>    Vista boot - is appalling atleast 2 minutes (longer) than the 30
>>>>    seconds XP takes.
>>>>
>>>>    Quite a few application are not compatible - or worse partly
>>>>    compatible.
>>>>
>>>>    Copy / Move / Delete of files is so slow we ended up burning DVD's
>>>>    than copying across our very fast gigabit network.
>>>>
>>>>    . . .
>>>>
>>>>    Windows Media Player 11 - crashes regularly.
>>>>    IE7 - locks up every couple of hours.
>>>>    On heavy usage we were rebooting - all our Vista machines an average
>>>>    of 3 hours.
>>>>    The Backup/Restore feature did not work.
>>>>    The Computer - Computer transfer did not work and crashed the Vista
>>>>    machine constantly.
>>>>
>>>>    Eventually we had our machines replaced and we have just installed XP
>>>>    on them. It works perfectly ok and we can now copy files at normal
>>>>    rates. (we have also dual booted them with Linux)
>>>>
>>>> Overruled!
>>> 
>>> Linux? That's not good for anyone, is it? Does it mean they want to give up
>>> on Windows altogether (perhaps in the long term)?
>>
>> No doubt. After all, Wine/Cedega is currently a better Windows than the
>> current Windows is.
>>
>> How sad is that?
>
> It is sad that you feel the need to repeat this urban myth. I have used
> both Wine & CEDEGA and they are works in motion. Incomplete. Buggy and
> sometimes very inefficient. Impressive pieces of work nonetheless.
>


"incomplete, Buggy and sometimes very inefficient"

Sounds like they have that MS-Windows thing down to a T...


>> Not that they're going to need Wine much anyway, once they switch (games
>> aside).


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