Next week Vista goes RTM?

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Finally MS had something useful to say about Vista -
"Dean DeWhitt, a director in the Windows kernel team at Microsoft. "It truly
is a waste."
 
http://news.com.com/Vista+flexes+its+power/2100-1016_3-6126287.html

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Microsoft estimates that allowing a PC to go to sleep during off hours, as compared with
leaving it on all the time, saves anywhere from $55 a year to $70 annually, depending on the
type of monitor.

"This is energy (consumed) when you are not even using the PC," said Dean DeWhitt, a director
in the Windows kernel team at Microsoft. "It truly is a waste."

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boe said:
Finally MS had something useful to say about Vista -
"Dean DeWhitt, a director in the Windows kernel team at Microsoft. "It
truly is a waste."
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another one of those stupid comments...nice showing of your true nature and
wisdom.

why the **** you then use Outlook Express and not MAC, Linux or similar?
 
Historically service packs have made such tiny functionality changes they
are barely worth noting. I doubt it will be much different in Vista.

To all those who kept insisting it and obsessing about it RTMing on Nov 25,
no it diunnnnnt as J-Lo would say.

To all those who recognized it is far short of being ready to RTM--welcome
to the Steve Sinofsky regime. Trains run on time, even when they're off the
track.

CH
 
Hi,

Chad Harris said:
Historically service packs have made such tiny functionality changes they
are barely worth noting. I doubt it will be much different in Vista.
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That is to 99.9% in all NT-Releases very true.
A ServicePack is just a tested release of a Hotfix-Pack, including patches
and hotfixes that were made already available the months and years after
when the rtm'd product was out.

Except for one case : SP2 for XP.This is to be considered not only a SP, but
a major OS Upgrade, in the meaning of a XP Second Edition or R2.

SP2 adds major new features like USB2,enhanced Bluetooth,Firewire and the
like ,WLAN,SecurityCenter .. to the OS.No Wonder that MSFT forced everyone
to do this Upgrade ( and by now XP without SP2 is not even supported
anymore ).

Even Jim Alchin admits that.They just don't wanted to confuse customers that
there is now a newer XP out.

When ( and if even ) a SP3 for XP will come, this will be more a
traditionall SP, in form of a Rollup to include all fixes ( how many
hundreds it will be ??) .

The tragic in history shows that MSFT can shorten the life of a OS by pure
dictatorship :

NT 3.51 was supposed to get a SP6 to include the Win95 Shell Update -
cancelled fpr NT4 ( which really is compared to NT3.51 only a update )

NT4 was supposed to get a SP7 which would include then USB support, it was
cancelled because NT5 aka 2000Pro was out.

Win2000 was supposed to get a SP5 - cancelled for XP's sake..

all those cancelled SPs where replaced by "Hotfix-Rollups",some goodies like
Euro-sign support, but basically that's it and afterwards declared dead.

IE 7 isn't working on Win2000 anymore, some MSFT-games like Age of Empires
III have been artificially compiled to not work on 2000 but on only XP and
so on...

It's just ever been : A new OS knocks on the door, so they are very hectic
to let the old one die. With XP this will be the case, too.

The first SP for Vista will be the same like SP1 to XP : lastminute critical
bugfixes, nothing else.
 
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