Vista - Differences between Vista and XP

Are there faqs concerning (as much as complete it's possible) the
differences between Vista and XP?
Thanks.
Giovanni

> Are there faqs concerning (as much as complete it's possible) the
> differences between Vista and XP?

Books have been written on the subject.

In some ways, much appears similar on the surface. Yet Vista has been
re-written from the ground up.

Are you looking for a layman's overview (e.g. feature changes such as
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...073611033.mspx)

or in depth technical info?

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Regards

John Waller

Hi,

No completely comprehensive one that I know of. Were you looking for
something specific?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"GRL" <giorel@tiscali.it> wrote in message
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> Are there faqs concerning (as much as complete it's possible) the
> differences between Vista and XP?
> Thanks.
> Giovanni
>

"John Waller" <johnw@REMOVETHISpinnacleweb.com.au> wrote in message
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> Vista has been re-written from the ground up.
>

sorry, not true, not at all
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>> Vista has been re-written from the ground up.
>
> sorry, not true, not at all

Well that depends on exactly what you're disagreeing with.

I was trying to provide a simplistic one sentence reply to a very broad one
sentence question. There's obviously far more to the issue than that.

If you could advise, in brief, why you are disagreeing with that assertion
is in more detail, perhaps there could be some meaningful dialogue here.

Something more than six words and two commas would be helpful.


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Regards

John Waller

"John Waller" <johnw@REMOVETHISpinnacleweb.com.au> wrote in message
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>>> Vista has been re-written from the ground up.
>>
>> sorry, not true, not at all
>
> Well that depends on exactly what you're disagreeing with.
>
> I was trying to provide a simplistic one sentence reply to a very broad
> one sentence question. There's obviously far more to the issue than that.
>
> If you could advise, in brief, why you are disagreeing with that assertion
> is in more detail, perhaps there could be some meaningful dialogue here.
>
> Something more than six words and two commas would be helpful.
>
>
> --
> Regards
>
> John Waller
>


Here's one example: There is a dialog in Windows that hasn't changed since
the Windows 3.x generation. If you're in the Fonts folder, the context menu
has an option to "Install a new font...". Clicking this option provides the
old dialog box from Windows 3.x.
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.
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"To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit
different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's
imagination — and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the
only one that meets that standard."
- Bill Gates
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My answer also for John Waller: I'm looking for faqs (or white papers)
concerning mainly the differences in the use of the most common
commands/utilities.
But I'd like also something more technical.
Thanks.
Giovanni

"Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> Hi,
>
> No completely comprehensive one that I know of. Were you looking for
> something specific?
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "GRL" <giorel@tiscali.it> wrote in message
> news:466a665e$1@newsgate.x-privat.org...
>> Are there faqs concerning (as much as complete it's possible) the
>> differences between Vista and XP?
>> Thanks.
>> Giovanni
>>
>

> 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

They put XP in the food processor, chopped it up & vacuum packed it.
I wish they had at least tried to get some of the pieces back in the right
place.
Having the gas & brake pedals reversed & the ignition switch in the trunk is
a pain!

"John Waller" <johnw@REMOVETHISpinnacleweb.com.au> wrote in message
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<snip>
> 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

"Not Me" <cargod01@bresnan.net> wrote in message
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> They put XP in the food processor, chopped it up & vacuum packed it.
> I wish they had at least tried to get some of the pieces back in the right
> place.
> Having the gas & brake pedals reversed & the ignition switch in the trunk
> is a pain!
>
> "John Waller" <johnw@REMOVETHISpinnacleweb.com.au> wrote in message
> news:O$0%23q6zqHHA.4004@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> <snip>
>> 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
>
>
>

All the changes, including widespread renaming of "default" folders and
apps, rearranging of menus with no rhyme or reason, and apparently for no
real purpose, confusing new graphic interface, are all necessary to make
Vista --look-- sufficiently different from previous versions of Windows.
This
only serves one purpose; to create the illusion that Vista is a new OS.

Consider, no one will ever offer an explanation as to WHY all these
system-wide changes were implemented, much less needed. This is just another
example of the Marketing Dept. at work.
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