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PC World crowns Vista Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007

vistaMore bad news for Windows Vista as PC World crowns it as the biggest tech disappointment of the year.

Here are some of the comments added by PC World from their recent article:

* “Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?”
* “It’s not that Vista is awful.” “It’s just that Vista isn’t all that good.”
* “Despite its hefty hardware requirements, Vista is slower than XP.”

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Inside the Windows Vista Kernel: Part 2

Last month, in the first installment of this three-part series, I looked at Windows Vista kernel enhancements in the areas of processes and I/O.

This time I’ll cover advances in the way Windows Vista manages memory, as well as major improvements to system startup, shutdown, and power management (Part 1).

 

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