In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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wrote
on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:10:52 +0100
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> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 08 August 2007 16:08 : \____
>
>> chrisv <chrisv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>>____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 07 August 2007 19:09 : \____
>>>>
>>>>> chrisv <chrisv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>> Mark Kent wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Vista IE7 issue remains unsolved for many users
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>>>>| When I read stuff like this, it confirms my belief that there?s
>>>>>>>>| something very broken in the world of Vista. Here?s a very
>>>>>>>>| knowledgeable user and talented developer who?s confounded and
>>>>>>>>| befuddled by a well-documented and still unaddressed issue affecting
>>>>>>>>| Vista users running Internet Explorer 7.
>>>>>>>> `----
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://techomg.com/vista-ie7-issue-remains-unsolved-for-many-users/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Some more blame thrown everywhere but Microsoft and their DRM-infected
>>>>>>>> kernel.
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Nvidia the Cause of Vista Complaints?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2007/08/05/nvidia-the-cause-of-vista-complaints/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>Haha! When we've had people on here telling us how wonderful the
>>>>>>>"professional" or "official" drivers are...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What part of "we want the choice to use them" do you not understand.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't quite grasp your point - how do you have any choice at all in
>>>>> the proprietary world of Windows?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>Exactly. It's designed to restrict choice (of platform, of vendor, of
>>>>format, of cost, et cetera et cetera).
>>>
>>> We're not talking about Windows.
>>>
>>
>> Err, we were talking about Vista...
>
> Vista is not Windows.
Eh? "Microsoft Windows Vista". Looks like Windows to me.
(In other words, still the same old adulterated crap,
maybe a little, um, runnier than usual. :-) )
> I used Windows before. Vista is just a different kind of
> monster. Even Windows 98, which is the last version I used, runs more
> applications than Vista does (Firefox included).
>
The games Microsoft plays in this space are apparently
... interesting. I'm not sure if anyone has done an
analysis a la Andrew Schullman's _Unauthorized Windows
95_ for Vista, but I suspect that they're slipping in some
interesting tidbits under the radar. There were also
hints of replacing WinInet, an old standby for downloading
websites, with WinHTTP at one point.
Even Unix is not immune; look at the vfork controversy of
about a decade or so back. Fortunately, in the Unix/Linux
world, these sort of "slip-ins" aren't nearly as common.
Unfortunately, someone who has discovered something magical
underneath might find his supports knocked out from underneath
him.
And then there's the fourth (?) rewrite of the driver
protocols from Win3.1 to Windows Vista. Bound to give
hardware vendors and their consultants headaches. I
don't think Linux has had to worry about such rewrites
nearly as much.
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