60% of Windows Vista to be Rewritten

That 60% is the Media Vomit Center, so they are essentially rewriting all the bloat in the OS. Either to make it less bloat and annoying or for it to be less annoying and easier to remove/ignore.

On a related note, I heard somewhere IE7 will be a seperate component of Windows and not embedded into the OS anymore. Thats including the XP version of it too.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I don't see a problem with the minimum resourcements. This is for an OS intended to be released a year from now on, and also intended to be the standard OS for 5-6 years ahead.

1 GB of RAM was ridiculous in 2001 too yet XP needs that much to run fluidly with games.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

That doesnt mean jack. Vista uses a completely different GUI so for all we know it may run fine with 256mb even, if you set it to use classic no-show gui. If anything, the needed videocards are much higher classes. Then again, this will finally make Pixel Shader based cards the absolute standard.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Snowknight

They must've wanted to gain some sort of support for Vista this way. With Halo 2 being as popular as it is, it's easy to assume that some might buy Vista just to play it on PC. (At the very least, this seems to be Microsoft's reasoning.)

I will actually install a copy of Vista just to play Halo 2, and if it doesn't suck I may even use it as my primary OS. The Aero skin is sexy, admit it.

Pretty much the only thing bothering me is Vista being over DRMed to hell, and being so "user friendly" that you cannot actually configure anything right because its hidden behind too much bloat.

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