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:Slow File Copy Bug in Vista: An Excellent Case for Open Source Development
Slow File Copy Bug in Vista: An Excellent Case for Open Source Development
Dec 24, 2007, 05 :00 UTC (11 Talkback[s]) (4847 reads)

"Clearly, Microsoft is quite capable of implementing a decent file copy algorithm, as we have seen with Windows XP, for example, which did not have any of these problems. I'm sure they have good people working on it. Apparently, though, it can't be a trivial issue, since it's been taking them a long time already. The fact that it only affects some users and not others certainly doesn't make the debuggung task any simpler. I know from experience that those hard to reproduce bugs are the worst. But Microsoft's lack of acknowledgement keeps the users frustrated, and provides ample ground for conspiracy theories to grow, suspecting the cause of the problem in the various DRM features that are built into Vista.

"But let us just ponder for a moment what would happen if Vista was open source...?"

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Anything MS does is good, Anything MS re ...   No need to wonder   
paul
Dec 24, 2007, 09:11:05
 
You would first remove all the lines of  ...   If Vista was Open Source...   
OS
Dec 24, 2007, 12:16:49
 
AND DRM == not available ...   Re: If Vista was Open Source...   
Lennie
Dec 24, 2007, 14:34:47
 
micrsoft doesn't want this fixed.the ...   not a bug - its a drm feature   
lhcj
Dec 24, 2007, 14:52:00
 
interesting... i happen to know a guy wh ...   Re: No need to wonder   
daniel
Dec 24, 2007, 15:44:25
 
 This guy obviously has no experience wi ...   You sir are a .....   
Anton
Dec 24, 2007, 15:57:15
 
>  Yes windows can be tweaked to be secu ...   Re: You sir are a .....   
paul
Dec 24, 2007, 17:57:10
 
Are the nasty comments in reference to t ...   Help me out here, I'm confused...   
Dean Pannell (aka dinotrac)
Dec 24, 2007, 20:40:48
 
HiI asked the DOT NET developer, the VB  ...   Re: No need to wonder   
linux23dragon
Dec 25, 2007, 01:36:57
 
I am not saying there is not a problem w ...   Arithmetic   
blackhole
Dec 25, 2007, 09:40:08
 
The sad fact is that there really are pe ...   Re: Help me out here, I'm confused...   
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Dec 26, 2007, 13:24:32
 
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