Posts by KevinN206

Quote: Originally Posted by wobegon So then it's not a "non-issue." When 32bit apps on 64bit Vista have to run in a compatibility mode that results in slower performance when compared to running them on 32bit Vista, that's an...

Quote: Originally Posted by wobegon I was mainly noting that distinction: Front Row comes with every new Mac. Media Center doesn't. While not all Vista versions come with Media Center, the versions that do matter. What versions are...

Quote: Originally Posted by wobegon Seems like a lot of people here are saying Windows 7 looks promising to them and that it will push Apple to make Snow Leopard even better. Well...where's Win7's award winning, iLife-class software...

Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. H Alas, UAC is disabled by most people because it pisses them off. You realise that all browsers have flaws? What matters is which ones are exploited. Beyond that, it looks like as Windows' security...

Quote: Originally Posted by fraklinc This is the problem with iE, everytime you use a browser to browse the web partly only the browser gets expose to the web, with iE not only does the browser gets expose but so does the entire OS...

Quote: Originally Posted by The General yes, only one language, and limited drivers. Vista and 7 have almost 2GB of drivers within the WIM file, so I wouldn't say it's "limited." With vLite, one can remove a large chunk of...

Quote: Originally Posted by rob_06 I have windows 7 and the total install time is much closer to 45 minutes after three or four rebbots along the way. I guess it depends on when the installation is defined as completed, but mine took...

I once spent over 72 hours with my a team member trying to get our final project done: a complete real-time operating system (RTOS) running with all the tasks scheduled. It was a completed system with semaphores, critical sections,...

Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism But they we're only 64-bit if you had the 64-bit version, which most weren't. Then their were driver issues galore, though thatt finally seems to have been mostly dealt with by Vista SP1. Apple's...

I believe they combined the QuickLaunch (available since Windows 95) into the new taskbar so that the items act as a launcher and windows switching. They had something similar from Windows 1.0. The behaviors of the new Taskbar is...