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Vista and Windows 8 are what you get when the goals are set high, but not enough time is given to achieve them.
by jpalomaki 10y ago
Vista and Windows 8 are what you get when the goals are set high, but not enough time is given to achieve them.
- washadjeffmad 10y agoVista was a deployment issue. At its release, the bulk of affordable consumer laptops had 1-2GB RAM, underpowered IGPs, and barely-beyond-32-bit dual core processors-- real "made for XP" systems. Vista required hardware acceleration for its desktop compositing, a minimum of 2GB RAM, and amd64 to avoid PAE. It ran very well on on systems with quadcore CPUs, discrete GPUs, and 4+GB RAM. The Linux DE Revolution hadn't started and I was still gnashing my teeth over the GNOME 3 transition when Vista came out, so I gave it a try. I still say it had better compatibility for foreign and older software than any of the later Windows.