> Every "new" OS out of MS lately has just been a rehash of previous OS's
> with a few new "features" added - Vista's no exception.
To me, that's a gross oversimplification of the development work that's gone
into Vista.
Wikipedia gives a good overview of the enormous engineering effort that's
gone into Vista:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature..._Windows_Vista
Sure Vista has a legacy and it's part of the Windows family i.e. it's not a
completely new way of doing things.
But much of the kernel has not been simply revised or cosmetically
retouched - they've started again from scratch e.g. TCP/IP stack, audio
stack, Aero (love it or loathe it) etc
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Regards
John Waller