Microsoft Claims Vista's Aero Interface Doesn't Slow PCs
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| Principled Technologies, which conducted the research for Microsoft, is
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| offering a download of the report.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196800080
Sure, sure. So it's just all the DRM that's slowing everything down. Let the
Big Lies roll in...
512 MB of RAM required, they argue...
Testing Vista's different memory configurations
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| 4x1GB is the best choice for best raw performance. It is hard to prove it
| in every test, but if you have 2x1GB and you load as much in memory, the
| system will become endlessly slow.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36148
Vista Runs Smooth Only on 2G Memory
http://www.itechnote.com/2006/10/27/vista-runs-smooth-only-on-2g-memory/
Vista System Memory Concerns
http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2395&Itemid=449
Microsoft Windows Is A Greedy Memory Hog, The Cure Is To Feed It RAM
http://bytepowered.org/articles/Article/Microsoft-Windows-Is-A-Greedy-Memory-Hog--The-Cure-Is-To-Feed-It-RAM/539
http://tinyurl.com/yn9ztx
Under the hood:
Cost analysis of Vista DRM: Part II
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| Microsoft doesn't merely use DRM. To all intents and purposes it
| is DRM, better known as Digital Rights Management, Digital
| Restrictions Management or or just plain CRAP for Content
| Restriction, Annulment, and Protection, as ZDNet's David
| Berlind called it, eventually deferring to Richard Stallman's
| Cancellation, Restriction, and Punishment. We call it, simply,
| CCG, short for Consumer Control Gear.
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http://p2pnet.net/story/10827
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