I’ve come up today to a very interesting article about the next generation of Microsoft’s operating system the Windows Vista. Before start thinking “Oh it’s just another system evolved from the same kernel that was used in Windows XP and Windows 2000” let me say that Vista is a complete new system. Read the article from ExtremeTech to see for yourself. They left out all the marketing stuff and analyzed the internals of Vista.
An extract from the article
There’s a lot of confusion about Windows Vista these days. Many online discussion forums have a great number of users who express no desire to upgrade to Vista. Sure, we’ve all seen the screenshots and maybe a video or two of Vista in action, but for many it only seems like new tricks for an old dog. Yeah, it’s got some fancy 3D effects in the interface, but OS X has been doing that for years now, and it’s still Windows underneath, right? The sentiment seems to be that Vista is another Windows ME—an avoidable upgrade that isn’t really going to breathe new life into your computer…