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Vista suffered from being stuck in PM hell. MS was working on so many new features for longhorn that were never fully finished and later scrapped. The only re
by cogman10 2y ago
Vista suffered from being stuck in PM hell. MS was working on so many new features for longhorn that were never fully finished and later scrapped. The only real significant (and important) change was the HAL.
- BeFlatXIII 2y agoI would've loved Vista if it looked like the early Longhorn builds.
- p_ing 2y agoWDDM was a huge improvement. UAC was also an improvement against shatter attacks but too aggressive in Vista.
- bombcar 2y agoThat was another thing Windows 7 "won" on by just being later; by the time it came out many of the major programs that had huge UAC issues were updated and resolved.
- wkat4242 2y agoOh yeah that filesystem whatever it was called sounded really revolutionary.
- bombcar 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS - it's sad, there really hasn't been much done in filesystems, but there's a lot that could be done.
- pxoe 2y agoIt introduced volume mixer (which stays kinda beloved and sought out even now) (and also WASAPI), search in start (hit start and type, which is now everywhere), snipping tool (which is made even better in windows 11), etc., there's actually a bunch of features there that either get overlooked or misattributed to windows 7, which is kinda interesting. Check out this article about them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_Vista https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_Vista
- bombcar 2y agoI remember the start menu search and related search things (both for windows and Mac OS, remember Sherlock?) being so absolutely dog slow and even worse after upgrade/fresh install. That all went away as SSDs came on the market, but it was a noticeable "downgrade" from teh snappy.