Agreed. There are other reasons for XP Mode as well, no WoW for 16bit on Vista/Win7 being one of them.
-sc From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 7:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Low end reliable workstations All it says is that Microsoft has a vested interest in keeping old stuff working, even if some of that was due to bad code. If Vista had an XP compatibility mode, many of the complaints leveled against it would have disappated long ago. Vista and Win7 provide considerably more secure computing environments right out of the box, as compared to XP, and are far easier to lockdown, as compared to XP, reducing the chance of compromise with either of the newer OSes vs XP. That's based on a number of side-by-side implementation of each OS at various clients. -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Charlie Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote: +1. A "secure" OS is no good if it cannot be used to perform work... Just the fact that XP Compatibility Mode exists says something... ;-) *********************** Charlie Kaiser [email protected] Kingman, AZ *********************** > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 1:53 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Low end reliable workstations > In my experience, 90% of the software in the world, > including 90% of Microsoft's stuff, falls into the category > of "poorly-written". > > -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
