Vista- Reasons to upgrade
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| ...no, I can't think of any either.
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| The only new thing I can see as far as Microsoft's own feature list
| goes is the addition of live icons and symlinks (Or what it calls
| soft links/virtual folders- yet another few features ripped from
| GNOME/KDE and *nix respectively), and full hard drive encryption
| (Only needed by businesses, but as a recent report shows, dumb
| terminals are favoured over systems with data on them by businesses,
| and who's going to use Vista as a high-availability server?)
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| Ah, and let's not forget- there's no innovation here. Don't be drawn
| in by Windows marketing. We've had fully-immersive 3D rendered
| environments available for about a year now with Linux and Xgl
| (The OpenGL version of X, the window server for Linux)- tools like
| Beryl allow you to do more than Vista's brand new interface does
| and with far less of a performance hit. I'm able to run Beryl/Xgl
| and EVE-Online (Using Transgaming's Cedega) with no issues, yet on
| Vista I can barely run the OS without stuttering to a halt.
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http://www.talkunafraid.co.uk/2007/01/30/general/vista-reasons-to-upgrade/
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