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Originally Posted by sikheadtom  Alot of that information is incorrect!
I only have 1gb of ram but Vista is running a lot quicker than my newish win xp install!
I've used the RC2 Version and i've been using the RTM version of Vista Ultimate for the last week  |
Just because you may or may not know how to optimize XP, does not mean it is slower.
True, I replaced my Explorer shell with Aston, my image viewer, my web browser, my Cache controller, my defrager, and I added in freeram to clean out my ram at regular intervals (when nothing is going on) to remove most of the need for rebooting.
Only being able to upgrade once? Unforgivable.
Now, if you want to upgrade, fine. But I STILL suggest upgrading your hardware.
Am I wrong? Maybe. I gave my sources for all my arguments I think, so you can decide if I am blowing this too far out of proportion. But in my mind, this OS is built for Hollywood and Disney, not for us.
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Vista includes various requirements for “robustness” in which the content industry, through “hardware robustness rules”, dictates design requirements to hardware manufacturers. The level of control the content producers have over technical design details is nothing short of amazing. As security researcher Ed Felten quoted from Microsoft documents on his freedom-to-tinker web site about a year ago:
“The evidence [of security] must be presented to Hollywood and other content owners, and they must agree that it provides the required level of security. Written proof from at least three of the major Hollywood studios is required”.
So if you design a new security system, you can't get it supported in Windows Vista until well-known computer security experts like MGM, 20th Century-Fox, and Disney give you the go-ahead (this gives a whole new meaning to the term “Mickey-Mouse security”). It's absolutely astonishing to find paragraphs like this in what are supposed to be Windows technical documents, since it gives Hollywood studios veto rights over Windows security mechanisms.
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