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    I didn't see them often but Earth 2160 for example created one everytime I shut down the game, think it was a graphics driver issue but Vista just restarts the driver in that case, not the whole system, I call that an improvement.
    I call it a problem with the game or graphics card drivers. And I'd rather know about this than have the OS just restart the driver. It's a cheap and dirty fix and doesn't help if the crash is in the middle of playing a game either.


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    Some people report problems with Vista that I haven't had either.
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    But I constantly see people claim that Vista is worse anyway, maybe next time I should just demand objective proof for that. Though I'm perfectly aware that counting bugs in an OS is some kind of almost insolvable task.
    Besides, I said worse bugs, not more
    I'm not saying one is more bugged than the other. I'm referring to the fact that people often refer to Vista's increased stability over XP as some sort of justification for having it, whereas there is no evidence that Vista is more stable than 2K, XP or 2K3. In fact if Vista was more stable I'm sure that may more companies would have switched to it for workstation use.
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    Gah. I can never figure out what these people are talking about half the time with how good a new OS will be when I can't see it in action. I'll see when it comes out.
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    AMD has released beta Catalyst drivers for Windows 7, which is not even beta yet.

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    Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't they try to get Vista right first?
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    Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't they try to get Vista right first?
    LOL. Fix an already-sold product, when you can sell an altogether new product?

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    LOL. Fix an already-sold product, when you can sell an altogether new product?

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    I wouldn't be surprised if they want to move past Vista because everybody hates it anyway. Once everybody has hated it for a few months it's almost impossible to change their opinions unless you release another product which is either worse so people will value the old product for being better or which is actually better so people will buy it.


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    Quote Originally Posted by KukriKhan View Post
    LOL. Fix an already-sold product, when you can sell an altogether new product?

    Commie.

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    It's so true...
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    From what I've seen there's little to get excited about. It looks like Vista, and it's largely going to behave like Vista with just one (thankful) exception: it promises to allow you to turn off all those pesky notifications.

    But it's basic (not too water-thight) security system hasn't changed all that impressively. It's file management system: haven't heard they'd ditch NTFS. It's directory service: well, same stuff by the looks of it. Is it going to support pipes, finally? Will it have a proper shell, for a change? Will it feature a more modular design (so as to allow me to uninstall like 10-20% I don't need/want)? Will it actually allow me to choose what to install?

    I'd be way more excited if the screenshot had shown something like a shell with (equivalents to) the following code:
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    ~$: tar -xvf foo-*.tar.gz ; cd foo-*; ls -a | grep 'bar' >> list_of_files_in_tar.gz
    That would mean much: (a) pattern matching on the command line; (b) proper, working function that changes working directory; (c) file listing command; (d) I/O redirection; oh and (e) no more need for the extension guessing game the OS *knows* what it stored in the file system.
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