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Title: Good Article on Windows
Post by: itlnstln on Wed, 18 November 2009, 10:23:19

Check it (http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/11/inside-minwin-the-windows-7-kernel-slims-down.ars).  It concerns MinWin and MS's work on changing the Windows OS.

Title: Good Article on Windows
Post by: ch_123 on Wed, 18 November 2009, 11:07:53

I remember when they first demonstrated MinWin, they showed a special hook up where they had the kernel, a command line interface and a cut down HTML server running with an "amazing" 32MB of RAM. (Bare in mind that you can run a Linux system with a full GUI in 16MB of RAM). Despite the presenter stating at least two times that MinWin was merely a tech demo for the core of the next Windows version, the first thing that was asked of him after he gave his speech was "When is MinWin coming out?", and websites were commenting on Microsoft's 'new' command line server OS...

Title: Good Article on Windows
Post by: microsoft windows on Wed, 18 November 2009, 15:58:09

I'd rather go with 2000 than have something with much less features that takes up more resources.

Title: Good Article on Windows
Post by: timw4mail on Thu, 19 November 2009, 07:20:37

I had to re-install XP last night because I realized that spanning two monitors works in the XP driver model, but not in the Vista/7 driver model without something like an Eyefinity-capable video card.

Title: Good Article on Windows
Post by: ch_123 on Thu, 19 November 2009, 07:25:24

Quote from: microsoft windows;133808

I'd rather go with 2000 than have something with much less features that takes up more resources.

2000 has more features? Lolwut?

Title: Good Article on Windows
Post by: CX23882 on Thu, 19 November 2009, 11:34:15

Vista/7 has a lot of advantages over 2000 and even XP. Ignoring the eye candy, it's little things that I like, such as being able to update graphics card drivers without restarting the PC. Sure, it's not something one does every day but it's nice to know it's possible. The audio architecture is considerably better in Vista/7, even though they remove DirectSound hardware acceleration. Native AHCI support is nice, even though it doesn't usually show in benchmarks. EVR video renderer almost makes up for the **** up that is VMR. I'm not saying that 2000 is a bad OS, but there are a lot of useful features in later OS and on newer hardware, Windows 7 probably runs "better" overall than Windows 2000.

Title: Good Article on Windows
Post by: microsoft windows on Thu, 19 November 2009, 15:59:14

Not on my computer.