Fine count Win Vista's pros and cons

Extremetech.com published a "Why Vista will be a very good operating system" article, a senior editor of Desktoplinux.com responded strongly to this, suddenly set off a pair of windows that have not yet come Whether Vista is good or not is a bad argument.

ExtremeTech from the following aspects of Vista is not a not worth upgrading of Windows Me-style products, but a revolutionary operating system:

1, the operating system core has been a new revision. The core of WinXP and 2k has no security design, so only a little bit of patching, and Vista has a big fix on this core. For example, in Vista, some operating systems running in the core mode, while the hardware drivers running in user mode, the core mode requires very high permissions, such as some virus trojans and so it is difficult to damage the core system. Vista's "heap" design is more advanced, convenient for developers, improve their efficiency. In power management also introduced sleep mode, so that our vista can never shut down, but only very low consumption of standby, start-up up very fast, than the current sleep efficiency much higher. Memory management and file system aspects of the introduction of SuperFetch technology, you can use frequently used programs into memory, improve performance, in addition to your background program will not capture a higher level of operation, do not worry about sudden a background program to operate other so that you cannot move. Because the hardware driver operates in user mode, the system is not driven properly, and the driver does not have to reboot.

2, the network integration IPV6 support, firewall efficiency and ease of use, optimize the TCP/IP module, which greatly increase the speed of network connection, wireless network support has also been strengthened.

3, the Media Center module will be built into the home Premium version, the user interface update, support CableCARD, you can watch the cable HD video.

4, audio, audio-driven work in user mode, improve stability, while speed and audio fidelity also improved a lot, built-in speech recognition module, with the volume adjustment for each application.

5, the display aspect, Vista built-in direct X 10, this is Vista only, using more DLLs, not backward-compatible, graphics card quality and speed will be a revolutionary upgrade.