Andrew N. Shrosbree wrote:
I have been hearing horror stories about software not being able to run on
Vista. This story appears to confirm my fears.
Tread carefully.
Andrew,
one US commentator's view:
Vista Report
I have no reason to change my previous conclusion: unless you have some
urgent and special reason to do so, do not upgrade your Windows XP
system to Vista. The gains in general won't outweigh the hassles.
If you buy a new Windows machine it will have Vista on it. Be sure it's
both fast enough and has more than enough memory. This is not a good
time to save money buying cheap hardware. Vista is demanding. Indeed, if
you get cheap hardware you might contemplate upgrading it by converting
Vista to Windows XP; your machine may well work better. Vista is demanding.
As for me, I'm astonished and disappointed: Microsoft had five years to
develop Vista, and when it was over they gave us an OS containing a
potential exploit that has remained undetected since Windows 3, and
their notion of enhanced security is the obnoxious User Account Control.
Years ago I pointed out, both in my columns and in conversations with
Microsoft security managers, that it is time and past time to develop
operating systems with compilers that do strong typing and range
checking, and no operating system should be released if it has been
compiled with C or other compilers that will compile nonsense. C
compiles fast compared to real system development languages, and in
theory allows rapid software development. In practice primitive assembly
language compilers such as C will allow all kinds of exploits. Real
computer development languages do strong type and range checking.
Five years, and we have buffer overflow exploits and an unusable User
Account Control that can't possibly have actually been used by the
people who developed the OS. Someone ought to be ashamed.
Greg
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