Re: Camera Card Reader

HEMI-Powered wrote:
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I just heard something really interesting about Vista. My nephew
claims he's read that MS is stopping sales of Vista entirely next
spring and launching yet another all-new O/S!

Windows 7 is in development, and early beta right now.

If true, the reason
appears to be that so much legacy software, including drivers,
cannot run because Vista locks out access to most of the hardware
and the system files. I suppose doing this was a noble gesture to
prevent the dummies out their from hosing themselves, but for most
people, they rely only on their SW and utilities doing the
dangerous things. It'll be interesting, again if this is at all
true, to see what the new O/S will be, how stable or how buggy IT
is, and how long it takes for both SW developers and HW
manufacturers to adapt to it.

AIUI, it is based on Vista so that anything which works today will continue to work. It may be that there's a setting to turn down the security in Vista to allow older drivers to work - a let the customer take the risk switch!

It's claimed that many, if not most, of the bugs are in the 3rd-party software including drivers, rather than in Windows itself. I don't disbelieve that.

Cheers,
David

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