Vista's Graphics To Be Moved Out of the Kernel 555
Tiberius_Fel writes "TechWorld is running an article saying that Vista's graphics will not be in the kernel. The goal is obviously to improve reliability, alongside the plan to make most drivers run in user mode." From the article: "The shift of the UI into user mode also helps to make the UI hardware independent - and has already allowed Microsoft to release beta code of the UI to provide developers with early experience. IT also helps make it less vulnerable to kernel mode malware that could take the system down or steal data. In broader terms, this makes Windows far more like Linux and Unix - and even the MacOS - where the graphics subsystem is a separate component, rather than being hard-wired into the OS kernel."
Steal (Score:3, Funny)
You mean copyright infringe data! The data's not going anywhere.
For a site that complains about this whenever it comes up, get it right!
BSOD (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Finally, can I turn the GUI off on my server? (Score:5, Funny)
Windows(tm) administrators...
Re:Finally, can I turn the GUI off on my server? (Score:5, Funny)
History made (Score:5, Funny)
shell=command.com
Then, they added the GUI in another secret Vista file called AUTOEXEC.BAt containing one line:
win.com
Re:Finally, can I turn the GUI off on my server? (Score:3, Funny)
Redundant?
Re:Apple and Microsoft (Score:3, Funny)
That's funny - the Mac zealots I talk to are going around complaining about Starbuck's supposedly inefficient "vanilla latte foaming technique".
(Ya, I am a Mac zealot... busted. I have X11 installed as well, came with Tiger.)
OS design hokey pokey (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Finally, can I turn the GUI off on my server? (Score:2, Funny)
Now if... (Score:4, Funny)
Now if Microsoft could just find a way to separate the internet browser from the OS...
** cough, choke, gag...**
In other news (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Finally, can I turn the GUI off on my server? (Score:2, Funny)
missing one (Score:5, Funny)
or DOS and windows 3.1.
*ducks*
Re:This is news? (Score:3, Funny)
Wow, you're behind the times. MS pioneered the scroll wheel back in 1996, almost 10 years ago.
And this was a concern (Score:2, Funny)
O_o
Re:Finally, can I turn the GUI off on my server? (Score:3, Funny)
Not that I like much of MS's junk, I've always thought that naming their OS something as common and obvious as "Windows" was dumb. They expanded this to include the name in things that made no sense like "Windows powered smartcards" which are very simple chips smaller than a penny that sit in a credit card.
Now even their servers named Windows might not even have "windows".
I used a Windows machine last night. Seemed so '90s.
Re:Finally, can I turn the GUI off on my server? (Score:3, Funny)
$ ps -e | grep X | kill -9 `awk '{ print $1 }'`
Server immediately started running noticeably faster.
Well, it would, not running xinetd anymore..