[geeks] The Dog's Breakfast: Microsoft Windows Vista

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Dan Duncan <danduncan at gmail.com>
>Date: 2007/05/06 Sun PM 06:41:07 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] The Dog's Breakfast: Microsoft Windows Vista

>On 5/6/07, Mike Murphy <mrm at mole.org> wrote:
<snip>
>> Fortunately, before blowing away the
>> rather bloated Vista, I had gone through the hour or two procedure to make 
the
>> restore DVD's. Note the plural.
>
>Eww.  Mine came with a Vista restore CD or DVD.  (I didn't look that
>closely.)

DVD - Vista is GIgs and Gigs of goodness, and it installs almost as a drive 
image, which is how they are able to build up such a massive software install 
in such short order (about an hour on current-model hardware) - unlike 
previous installs for Windows products, they don't pick and choose individual 
files to unload and copy to the HD...

Lionel