[CQ-Contest] Vista OS

[Charlie Gallo]

On 8/7/2009 Neal Campbell wrote:

> Why get twice the bloat of an XP system when you can
> buy an XP system?

1)It's NOT twice the bloat - particularly for Win7
2)More modern UI
3)That dreaded UAC does a lot to prevent trojans - it's the equivalent of the Unix SU - and they made it a better in Win7
4)The drivers don't run in ring 0, so if a driver crashed, it does NOT take down the system.  Something like 75% of all XP blue screens come from 3rd party driver issues
5)(if running 64 bit) - access to memory above 3 gig
6)Win7 LIBRARIES
7)The dialog boxes (with the tree) make finding things a lot easier
8)Built in desktop search (this is huge)



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