Comments on: Windows ‘Battery Killer’ (Vista 7) Also Has USB Data Transfer Issues and Stability Problems, Does Not Sell Well http://techrights.org/2010/02/09/vaporware-and-fake-leaks/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 03 Jan 2017 04:31:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: your_friend http://techrights.org/2010/02/09/vaporware-and-fake-leaks/comment-page-1/#comment-81446 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:44:23 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=26630#comment-81446 GNU/Linux is good enough for everyone.

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2010/02/09/vaporware-and-fake-leaks/comment-page-1/#comment-81397 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:06:02 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=26630#comment-81397 Microsoft still argues with actual users. I’m sceptical.

]]> By: Yuhong Bao http://techrights.org/2010/02/09/vaporware-and-fake-leaks/comment-page-1/#comment-81393 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:36:12 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=26630#comment-81393 “Bear in mind that Microsoft insists that all software is defective/insecure and other companies are “equally evil”.”
Which is false of course, but some categories of issues are not unique to Windows.
And on the Win7 battery life issues, that is probably quite hard to debug and can have more than one cause.

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2010/02/09/vaporware-and-fake-leaks/comment-page-1/#comment-81268 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:51:26 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=26630#comment-81268 Why would you not “go that far”? What are your expectations from quality?

Bear in mind that Microsoft insists that all software is defective/insecure and other companies are “equally evil”.

]]> By: Robotron 2084 http://techrights.org/2010/02/09/vaporware-and-fake-leaks/comment-page-1/#comment-81266 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:32:32 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=26630#comment-81266 “But Microsoft says that the next version of Windows will fix everything. It promises, as usual.”

That’s a gross exaggeration, but it does sound like a page ripped from the Linux zealot’s playbook. Always promising this is the year when Linux is finally good enough for everyone (key word here).

]]> By: Yuhong Bao http://techrights.org/2010/02/09/vaporware-and-fake-leaks/comment-page-1/#comment-81265 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:33:51 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=26630#comment-81265 What do make dealing with such issues on Linux easier is that most drivers on Linux like Linux itself is OSS, while on Windows most Windows drivers like Windows itself is closed source. For example, it renders the hack used by XP SP2 and later when PAE is enabled to limit physical address space to 4GB because of broken drivers described by Geoff Chappell completely unnecessary on Linux.

]]> By: Yuhong Bao http://techrights.org/2010/02/09/vaporware-and-fake-leaks/comment-page-1/#comment-81264 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:23:48 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=26630#comment-81264 On problems with Windows updates, AskWoody.com and WindowsSecrets.com talks a lot about them.
“According to SoftPedia, Vista 7 suffers from “USB Data Transfer Issues on PCs with NVIDIA USB EHCI Chipsets”:”
Looks like a issue with drivers not handling DMA over the 4GB line properly, and AFRIK it is far from unique to Windows. In fact, it may not be software alone, hardware bugs help too. If you search the LKML, you can find plenty of examples.
“Considering all the major bugs in Vista 7 (RTM), there is still a lot of testing to be done. ”
I wouldn’t go that far.

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