Vista : The Review
Vincent HERMANN & Jérome BOSCH le 24 juillet 2006 (16 982 lectures)
This Windows Vista review is coming to an end (“at last” some might say). What should be remembered from it depends of course of your own opinions, but this system has clearly some technological assets which cannot be denied. It obviously breaks away from the previous versions and the step from Windows XP to Vista can easily be compared to the step from Windows 95 to Windows 2000.
The current situation of Microsoft is a bit blurry, between the official delays of Vista and the reorganization awaiting the whole Microsoft division. It is still a little too soon to say if yes or no Vista will be this great system that it seems to become. A certain number of updates regarding the current configurations could not be enough, but no Vista system will be slower than Windows XP systems. Its resources distribution is too different to be based on criteria such as the RAM consummation.
We will still have to wait several months before having a clear idea of what the final version of the system will be. Indeed, the first Release Candidate (i.e. the first version of the system candidate to be finalized) will come out during the summer. Until then, a great number of changes will be made. Because, as Microsoft declared, if the main objectives of Aero are fixed, all the little things that make an interface finalized, and MacOS X users will not say otherwise, are not there yet.
In a way, Vista is not an ordinary Windows version because it started a whole new wave of software at Microsoft. Like Windows 95 and 2000 some years ago, Vista brings in a bunch of new possibilities which will affect the applications conceived in order to take advantage of them, especially concerning interfaces. On the path of Windows evolution, Vista represents what is called a Technology Release, meaning a version which will set up new technologies to serve as a base for what will follow. Once these technologies are set up and used by a maximum of developers and companies, it will be time for Vienna, after Vista, to take roots in this new ecosystem.
We hope this review has INform you correctly about Vista. There would be much more to say about it but we do have to stop somewhere ;)
Jerôme Bosch and Vincent Hermann
Translated from french by Mickael Cesneau
The current situation of Microsoft is a bit blurry, between the official delays of Vista and the reorganization awaiting the whole Microsoft division. It is still a little too soon to say if yes or no Vista will be this great system that it seems to become. A certain number of updates regarding the current configurations could not be enough, but no Vista system will be slower than Windows XP systems. Its resources distribution is too different to be based on criteria such as the RAM consummation.
We will still have to wait several months before having a clear idea of what the final version of the system will be. Indeed, the first Release Candidate (i.e. the first version of the system candidate to be finalized) will come out during the summer. Until then, a great number of changes will be made. Because, as Microsoft declared, if the main objectives of Aero are fixed, all the little things that make an interface finalized, and MacOS X users will not say otherwise, are not there yet.
In a way, Vista is not an ordinary Windows version because it started a whole new wave of software at Microsoft. Like Windows 95 and 2000 some years ago, Vista brings in a bunch of new possibilities which will affect the applications conceived in order to take advantage of them, especially concerning interfaces. On the path of Windows evolution, Vista represents what is called a Technology Release, meaning a version which will set up new technologies to serve as a base for what will follow. Once these technologies are set up and used by a maximum of developers and companies, it will be time for Vienna, after Vista, to take roots in this new ecosystem.
We hope this review has INform you correctly about Vista. There would be much more to say about it but we do have to stop somewhere ;)
Jerôme Bosch and Vincent Hermann
Translated from french by Mickael Cesneau
Sommaire
- 1. 1 - Introduction
- 2. 2 - Microsoft Operating System History (1/2)
- 3. 3 - Microsoft Operating System History (2/2)
- 4. 4 - The Genesis of Vista
- 5. 5 - Vista's Core
- 6. 6 - Windows Driver Foundation, Drivers’ Management under Vista
- 7. 7 - The .Net Environment, one of Vista’s Foundations
- 8. 8 - Graphics Resources Management under Vista
- 9. 9 - Network Management on Vista
- 10. 10 - Security, First Part
- 11. 11 - Security, Part Two
- 12. 12 - Associated Technologies: WinFS
- 13. 13 - Associated Technologies : PowerShell
- 14. 14 - Sound Management on Vista
- 15. 15 - Reliability and Performance, First Part
- 16. 16 - Reliability and Performance, Part Two
- 17. 17 - Interface and Functions, Part One
- 18. 18 - Interface and Functions, Part Two
- 19. 19 - Internet Explorer 7.0
- 20. 20 - Conclusion
