Will this windows never crash???No, and as soon as you turn it on, rivers of nectar will pour down from the skies. :rolleyes:
Yes, it'll crash. Possibly more than existing versions, possibly less -- almost certainly more at this point, since it's unfinished.
What about security,it promises to be secured but is it at par with linux???Unlikely. Several of the original design flaws still remain. It will almost certainly be a step up from Windows XP, though.
Viruses will logically be more protected.There's a lot of work being done to allow more applications to run without full administrative privileges, but there's quite a way to go too (Office 12 still doesn't allow it, if I remember correctly). If Microsoft succeed there, it'll go a long way towards eliminating one of the primary security flaws in Windows. The kernel also no longer allows patching by anyone and his dog. However, IE is still integrated into the OS.
Really, it seems silly to me, overall.
It's just windows' way of copying OSX and they're doing it in such a dumb way.Agreed.
I saw a short clip where bill gates was demonstrating the features, such as a rolodex-style 3-dimensional spinning array of open windows which you could rotate through with animated transitions... just to cycle through windows.
What's the point?That's more a demonstration than anything else. With a heavily graphics-enabled desktop, more useful effects are possible, such as window transparency, 3D workspaces, the whole nine yards. See the Metisse and LG3D projects for some practically-oriented examples. Beryl contains some too, although it's more centred around eye-candy.
I read a page somewhere (and tried to find it with no luck - sorry) about WV already having 6 security holes found by hackers (and it isn't even released yet!)Although considering how long it's been available in beta (and the fact that it's Windows) that's not too bad.
I haven't heard anything good about it yet that makes me want to switch/upgrade so I am going to wait a while.. you KNOW they will be releasing service packs.Agreed.
Unmentioned here is Vista's DRM support. Read the story of DRM/TCPA, from one side (https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/home) and the other (http://www.againsttcpa.com/).
Vista originally had many exciting features: WinFS, more customisability, the default themes, the Monad shell.... Microsoft seem to have gone through and carefully removed almost everything that attracted me to it, added DRM, and increased the price tag (for the top versions, anyway: you can bet the versions designed for we lower classes will run like treacle). However, there are still a few benefits for the developer -- nicer interfaces for several unpleasant low-level tasks have been introduced.