[Don Pearce]

Mike Rivers wrote:
Don Pearce wrote:

Serious question - what does Vista do that XP doesn't do as well or
better?

Allows the computer to use more memory than you can possibly afford, or
that a reasonable application can ever use. It apparently has some
better utility tools (search perhaps?) that are faster and more
efficient than XP. There are bound to be some things that it just does
better. But since Microsoft only assures that a new OS will work with
mainstream applications (mostly Microsoft's own) and there's not yet,
thank goodness, a Microsoft DAW and Microsoft audio interface, all
support for "our" applications is from a third party or their
subcontractors. They have to learn a lot before they can get to work,
and the more they know, the better job they can do if allowed the time
and money.


Interesting - of course we all turn off indexing (I'm sure) so the
Microsoft search thing won't work properly anyway. And then we add a
third party search tool like Copernic that actually does useful stuff.
Luckily that also works with Vista.

I have yet to find anything that is faster on Vista than XP. Vista
appears to be designed as a counter to Moore's Law.

d