Friday, February 01, 2008
Onomatovista
Stereotypes: Vista Box Needs Instructions to Open
There has to be a word for this. The packaging feels and functions like the underlying product.
I have Vista in boot camp on my macbook pro. What a resource hog! And what, exactly, does it do that's new?
3 Comments:
By 
, at
Fri Feb 01, 01:51:00 PM:
It's shiny and uses previously unheard of amounts of memory. Both of these innovations are, of course, groundbreaking.
By , at
Fri Feb 01, 05:51:00 PM:
Plus, it reports back to the mother ship semi-continuously. As is appropriate and necessary, given that it's beta code.
By 
Georg Felis, at
Fri Feb 01, 06:06:00 PM:
The primary reason for Vista's existence is to prevent "protected content" from being copied. To this end, it is filled with a myrid of encrypting routines even to the point of encrypting the data streams on the motherboard between non-secure chunks of hardware.
For the geeks out there, read the article by Peter Gutmann
It is a very good article on just why Vista is so pokey and buggy.
