Re: Chris Pirillo on Lepord vs Vista

"Sandman" <mr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <1157907251.572506.35420@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Super Spinner" <Pepe.Smythe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As for Vista's missing features, why don't you name the features that
were dropped from Vista?
I'll start for you:
1. WinFS
2. ???
Please list the rest. I keep hearing about the many features that were
dropped, so please enumerate up to ten of them.

I think you've stretched it a bit here; you've included a
lot of stuff from older Windows releases being canned,
unbundled, or replaced.

1. WinFS

But this is still a major feature that was cut,
and indeed killed, not just delayed.

A most painful loss.

2. Monad shell

This has been removed from Vista, but they plan
to ship it separately. It may even ship before Vista;
it did hit RC1 before Vista did, after all.

This is a new feature, but it has been unbundled,
not canned, not yet.

3. PC to PC sync

This is a rather minor feature; it is quite
normal to for MS to fiddle around the edges
like this.

4. UEFI

MS says they will ship this, but it has
been delayed.

You can't really "unbundle" something like
this, but MS is clearly giving it the old
college try. :D

OTOH, they have said they won't support
it for 32-bit Vista. That represents a real
feature loss, but it's pretty trivial.

(Well, the whole thing is kinda trivial, but
the 32-bit side is trivialer: it's just Macs).

5. Support for Next-Generation Secure Computing Base architecture

This was another big feature they've ditched,
but one that is of questionable value to actual
users. This is, after all, a super-duper copy
protection system. Are you sad it's out now?

6. Windows Messenger

This is not a new Vista feature that has been
abandoned, but an XP feature that did not
succeed, and is being canned.

I think it is reasonable for MS to focus
on MSN^H^H^H Windows Live Messenger
instead. It is a free download, so this is
really a question of packaging: what do
they bundle?

7. Hardware profiles

Again, this is an old (Win NT 3.1!) feature that
hasn't panned out real well, and is being canned.

It is not a new Vista feature being abandoned
before release.

8. Support for EISA bus and APM

This are, of course, not new Vista features
either. They are old hardware technologies
not supported for Vista.

There surely cannot be many computers that
sport these technologies, yet are powerful
enough to run Vista. These guys are more than
a decade old now.

9. 32 bit help files

This a little misleading. It's not the help *files* that
are 32-bit; it's WinHlp32.exe, a 32-bit program that
reads and displays the old (Win3) help file format.

That format has been deprecated for many years now.

The reader program will be available as a download,
but will not be bundled. MS is evidently trying to
kill this thing, but hasn't *quite* managed it, yet.

The reason for this hesitation is, of coure, compatibility:
as recently as NT 4.0, this was the official help file
format MS used. It was replaced in Win98 by
..chm files.

In any case, this is again a feature that shipped
in easlier versions of Windows being unbundled
(not quite canned!) for Vista, not a new Vista
feature being dropped.

10. NetMeeting.

MS has been downplaying this for awhile; they don't
even include a shortcut for it in XP (though the program
is in there).

They are going to replace it with "Windows Meeting
Space". One hopes this is an upgrade, not a "dropped
feature".


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