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Re:Apple introduces a universal design across platforms by Macha on Monday June 09, 2025 @04:13PM (#44228914)
Meh, Vista laptops could run lots of translucency fine (well as long as they were actualy Vista era laptops and not just XP era laptops with Vista installed)
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Re:Apple introduces a universal design across platforms by dylan604 on Monday June 09, 2025 @04:19PM (#44228990)
It's almost like they said the same thing: Funny that they mention that "new hardware has enabled us to..."

oh wait. it's not like they did. they did say it.

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Re:Apple introduces a universal design across platforms by slt2021 on Monday June 09, 2025 @05:39PM (#44229815)
you just proved that MSFT released slow OS to force people refresh hardware.

Plus, vista was released in 2007, XP SP2 (the most popular version) was in 2004. so its like ~3 years diff. So its not like hardware has progressed in 3 years, its more like new software got significantly slower

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Re:Apple introduces a universal design across platforms by hajile on Monday June 09, 2025 @08:04PM (#44231046)
I don't think upgrading was the reason for Vista performance. MS wasn't in the hardware business back then (and is just a marginal player even today).

They WAY overreached in their goals with Longhorn. When they finally decided to cut back features to something actually attainable, they didn't have enough time to make a high-performance OS.

Windows 7 was a well-loved rebrand of what was essentially just a Windows Vista service pack and improved performance (though it was still too heavy for a lot of the older machines people tried to upgrade to Vista). If they'd have cut back on their goals earlier, Windows 7 is likely a lot closer to what would have shipped as Vista.

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Re:Apple introduces a universal design across platforms by p_l on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @07:31AM (#44235478)
A lot of problems was simply a fight with device makers and shit drivers, to be quite honest.

Windows 7 benefited from coming later with Vista being the battleground in which vendors were forced to update to NT6.0 models.

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