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Gartner Predicts that Windows Vista the last of its kind, and goes on to predict that Microsoft will split functionalists using vitalization technologies.
Meanwhile, Other articles attack Microsoft DRM policies and Security. Those attacks attempt to base themselves on technical issues, but the economic and sociological issues are self evident.
All this leads me to believe that Microsoft has failed to understand not only Information Technologies, but Consumer Electronics and the gap that exists between them.
This is all to apparent when seeing the Apple iPhone and the Nokia N770. Slick and clear design on the outside, as expected of a consumer appliance, hackable and expandable in the inside, as expected of an IT device.
This should not come as news to anyone. At home, The attempt at zoning DVD content failed miserably. At the office, Windows Terminal Services are killing the Windows PC.
Microsoft is focused to much on making every product have the same "Windows" look. As a side effect it is also fixated on making it's products less configurable. This contradicts the very vision that got it to where it is today - the user controlled computing. An operating systems that runs on hardware from many different vendors, running software from a variety of vendors. The user can be the home hobbyist, or the corporate IT department.
This is not a prediction of the demise of Microsoft. Microsoft has many ways to reinvent itself, and the money to do it. For the time being innovation will happen elsewhere: General Purpose Computing will evolve by service providers, and design will evolve by the consumer electronic makers. Both will us Free and open-source software. Both will drop DRM, since DRM and proprietary software does not provide any benefits, for them or their clients.
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Windows Vista (formerly
Windows Vista (formerly codenamed Windows "Longhorn") has many significant new features compared with previous Microsoft Windows versions, covering most aspects of the operating system.
In addition to the new user interface, security capabilities, and developer technologies, several major components of the core operating system were redesigned, most notably the audio, print, display, and networking subsystems; while the results of this work will be visible to software developers, end-users will only see what appear to be evolutionary changes in the user interface.
As part of the redesign of the networking architecture, IPv6 has been incorporated into the operating system, and a number of performance improvements have been introduced, such as TCP window scaling. Prior versions of Windows typically needed third-party wireless networking software to work properly; this is no longer the case with Windows Vista, as it includes comprehensive wireless networking support.
For graphics, Windows Vista introduces a new as well as major revisions to Direct3D. The new driver model facilitates the new Desktop Window Manager, which provides the tearing-free desktop and special effects that are the cornerstones of Windows Aero. WDDM's current version 1.0 is able to offload rudimentary tasks to the GPU, install drivers without requiring a system reboot and seamlessly recover from rare driver errors due to illegal application behavior.
At the core of the operating system, many improvements have been made to the memory manager, process scheduler, heap manager, and I/O scheduler. A Kernel Transaction Manager has been implemented that can be used by data persistence services to enable atomic transactions. The service is being used to give applications the ability to work with the file system and registry using atomic transaction operations
Agreed
Windows Vista is not the last of its kind. Technology always evolves.
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