Microsoft finds their way to 1985
In news fthat should be from the past, Microsoft announces that they are bringing Windows up to the state of the art... circa the mid 80's:
Microsoft Corp. is working on a significant new feature for Windows Vista, known as Restart Manager, which is designed to update parts of the operating system or applications without having to reboot the entire machine.
Microsoft officials have not talked much publicly about this new feature, but Jim Allchin, the co-president of Microsoft's platform products and services division, recently told eWEEK that this is an example of just how important the reboot issue was to the Redmond-based software giant.
Comments
[Tom Sattler] December 9, 2005 14:29:26.157
Wow, this is exciting. The last thing Microsoft did which was this exciting was adding long filenames to Windows. I wonder if someone at Microsoft has a list called "Stuff that's been in Unix for 30 years" and every so often they try to implement one of them?
Re: Microsoft finds their way to 1985
[ anonymous] December 9, 2005 21:48:05.097
Comment by anonymous
Yep. And that still isn't right.
I have to add thunde~1.exe to the antivirus exception list because the process shows like that on some WINDOWS XP machines.
Kinda like when they promised to make more hot fixes non-reboot. The majority still are.