Well I am still waiting for them(dell, hp, acer) to get a laptop that can also have a physics accelerator installed.

 

This is not what causes the problem. For some odd reason on some systems if you install the newer .NET it registers itself over the old one and this can cause problems when a program that explicitly needs stuff from the newer version comes along. It will then fail. It doesn't happen on all machines but it is just something to watch out for.

 

Sorry we're not Apple...we can't get up a morning and suddenly decide to move over to a BSD base and then throw backwards compatibility out the window. It would be great if we could though...the hours of testing we could save

Windows is its size because of you the consumer...backwards compatibilty is a good chunk of that size increase. There are also several other reasons why it is that size...and many of them just have to do with the fact that the OS has to run on an infinite matrix of hardware which several other OSes out there don't have to.

As far as security, I'd warrant the average PC user can't really tell which OS is more secure than another...they can definitely tell which one gets attacked more than another...but thats another story .

 

Codgi -- Sorry if you felt like I was anti-MSFT. I am in general a MSFT fan and a long time shareholder. I almost joined the company back in the early 90's after racing with a now retired exec. I understand your points about backward compatibility, but am not sure that is the driver of increased size and processor requirements.

Anyway, keep up the great work and let me know if I can PM you should I ever have a Vista question. Thanks!

 

Okay.. bad news.. this Dell doesn't like it at all! I tried to install all the old .net 1.1 and it still doesn't register it as being installed. Of course when I try to install it again it says it's installed. Jeez!

I need to find EvoScan .98 though, since I didn't get the new download link.

ECU flash and Mitsulogger "seem" to work.. haven't plugged it into the car yet.

 

Yeah its an uber generalization. There is also the stupid "we need to put 23032230 features in the OS because competitor x does it and we need to keep up" which helps the size increase to...but oh well i'm with Office so i feign innonence about any Vista problems .