Re: Microsoft Firewall vs ????

Dave wrote:


You really should try Solaris x86 and see how snappy a machine feels compares to one running Vista. I've not managed to get drivers for either the camera or the fingerprint reader, but those are minor irritations compared to the slowness of Vista and the fact many programs have issues when running under Vista.


This fact is, sadly, well documented. With Windows 2000 Microsoft decided on a subset of he Win32 API known as NT5 API, which they guaranteed to keep consistent on all Windows versions till at least 2012, and strongly advised all newly developed programs to restrict themselves to this subset for the sake of forward and backward compatibility. Now with Vista they've already broken this promise, f.e. they've removed the ShellItemIDList stuff and fully replaced it with Windows Search 4.0 Item Containers (and didn't even offer a marshaller stub, which would be trivial to implement).
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