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Simon Schršder
compared to ie6, ie7 is a real improvement. and i'm comfortable working with ie7.
(on vista you get ie7+, on xp only ie7)
"similar looks"? i would be very surprised to see something like aero glbutt on xp.
1. a crashing graphics driver is a crashing graphics driver. not an unstable kernel. and nvidia's drivers are not extremly stable on vista.
2. ati have support for "rebooting" the graphics chip. but that's something the driver has to do. vista does that automatically without any buttistance by the graphics driver.
Rod Pemberton ... I'm not sure it's gonna bite one right away. Well, the today's vista (beta version) needs half a gig of RAM, is very picky to the video...
well... i guess that's the only way to bring security to the average user. all the infrastructure is already there since nt4, but most xp users just don't get it and work with the administrator account and install stuff they shouldn't.
administrator
no - in vista you cannot use the adminstrator account anymore. there is no such thing. you can work with a user which is in the local "administrators" group (something like the "power users" in 2000-xp), but even in that group you don't have all permissions. uac controls everything and asks you over and over again if you want to change something :)
Pre-Centrino Pentium-III laptop is fine with XP SP2. You could do this yourself with the soldering iron too. Also the books were available...
but you can disable uac if you really want to. but it's hidden really well. and i think that's a good choice.
Neither Win98 nor MS-DOS can be called "stable", due to architectural problems of their. Well, DOS was written for an ancient CPU which could not support the real stable OS, but as about Win98...
regards, simon
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