Text 50996, 55 rader
Skriven 2008-11-11 19:24:17 av Robert Fowler (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 50992 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: HD0=Vista, HD1=U'u
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Alan Zisman -> Jeff Guerdat wrote:
 AZ> Jeff Guerdat -> James Bradley wrote:
 JG>> James Bradley wrote:

 >>> AFAIK, true to this day. Now that Vista will not support legacy HW,
 JG>> they missed
 >>> with the bullet to the foot and destroyed their pelvis instead.
 JG>> <shaking head>

 JG>> You could say the same thing about Linux and Mac, too.  However, with
 JG>> those it's more about the device manufacturers not supporting the OS.
 JG>> If enough people demanded it, however, they would be forced to. In MS'
 JG>> defense, however, would YOU continue to support small numbers of
 AZ> lots of
 JG>> devices?  Wouldn't the money be better spent elsewhere?  Imagine
 JG>> yourself as a programmer who is asked to support every device ever
 AZ> made
 JG>> out there.

 JG>> Regardless of the naysayers, there ARE choices.  You just have to be
 JG>> willing to make some changes rather than doing what some do and whine
 JG>> rather than make the change.

 AZ> Microsoft finds itself caught between the proverbial rock and hard
place...

 AZ> On the one hand, they are pressed for security improvements that require
 AZ> making some basic changes to Windows such as limiting the way that some
 AZ> applications require administrator-only access in order to run.

 AZ> Similarly, given the way that poorly-written device drivers have caused
 AZ> stability problems in the past, a new model for device drivers is
 AZ> needed-- making them less likely to crash the entire system.

 AZ> On the other hand, when they implement these sorts of changes, their are
 AZ> complaints that the old applications and devices fail to work!

 AZ> There are ways around this-- Microsoft has made Virtual PC free (as are
 AZ> VMware Player and Server, VirtualBox, etc)... if a user is running a
 AZ> newer version of Windows but has an application or device that requires
 AZ> an older Windows version, they may want to look at installing VPC (etc),
 AZ> installing the older Windows version, and running the old-style
 AZ> application or device within a virtual session.

I believe that with the 2007 version of Virtual PC, MS changed the EULA (if not
the product) to require it to be run only on their upper echelon products, thus
conforming what can run the virtual machine with what is allowed to run within
it.

Regards,

Robert Fowler

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