About services, maybe the 2 great choices when we launch Windows is : You need a full version operational ? Or a light one (like for Netbook / Notebook) ?

When “Light one” is enabled, applications which needs some services could be able to fire on the right services needed, sort of virtual On/Off button. Instead of messages like “service unavailable” or obscur information because a service is off (error number 72389)…

Yes, a thrue automatic gearbox for light Windows to more powerful windows…

i didnt know this thanks

http://www.mobile-computing-news.co.uk

At the least he didn’t call the Tablet features a Vista Powertool or Widget.

Sheesh.

One step forward and two steps back.

Bill, “He is talking about a modular approach to an operating system.. so some tailor it to their machine’s needs.” Yes, that was the point of Steven’s post. No, that’s not what this discussion is about.

Oh my god! He is talking about a modular approach to an operating system.. so some tailor it to their machine’s needs.

After reading it 25 times and putting it through a rube goldberg machine it appears what he is really saying is that ford motor company has not made a good engine since the 427 sideoiler. Seriously, read it a few more times, it jumps right out.

Forget about giving the “average joe user” the ability to readily turn off system features. Does anyone remember Windows NT and 2000 ? It was very easy to disable almost any service and device drivers via control panel. With XP Microsoft deliberately “dumbed down” W2K and buried system features several layers deep. The average user would be overwhelmed with the number of system services than Vista has and would screw up their OS in no time. Your typical Windoze user is not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed. I would would be very wary of giving them an axe to swing inside the OS kernel.

Loren, you may be right. Kevin’s post just made me think about a post on E7 discussing this sort of configurability and James’s recent complaints about Vista’s performance. Although most may not be interested in this kind of thing I believe many would be and those that would generally want to do it when they startup Windows on a new PC for the first time. Anyway, I believe our disagreement was exactly what the E7 post was all about.

Sorry about the rant above, it was way off topic.

I think it was an example that everyone can relate to and understand. The only example that I can think of that might have been better is network services. If I was in an airplane and wanted to save all the battery I can, it would be nice to be able save some CPU cycles by shutting all networking process down.

BAT files are simple and powerful. Let’s quite allowing apps to make hundreds of entries in hundreds of places in the registry. Let’s give each app 5 entries in only one place and then cut um off.

Microsoft’s benefit/curse has been that they’ve always been backwards-compatible. Sometimes it seems that Microsoft fears if they break an old feature, the masses will rise up against them. How many shims did they put into each version of the operating system to maintain backwards-compatibility of prior versions? After all, BAT files still work… :)