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Current Newswire: Saving the "Best" for Last - Fedora 12 (Constantine) LinuxCertified Announces its next Linux System and Network Administration BootCamp The Problem With The Linux Community Vim 101: A Beginner's Guide to Vim Open Source Science: A Revolution From Within openSUSE 11.2-- Incremental Updates, Plenty of Polish Microsoft, other rivals slam Google Chrome OS Intel Linux Graphics Shine With Fedora 12 Editor's Note: Do It Yourself "Cloud" Google Chrome OS: First looks, first impressions Arcsight Engineer The Computer Merchant, Ltd US-DC-Washington Post A Job | Post A Resume Slow File Copy Bug in Vista: An Excellent Case for Open Source Development Dec 24, 2007, 05 :00 UTC (11 Talkback[s]) (5491 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...?" Complete Story Related Stories: Microsoft Makes Windows Embrace Linux(Dec 14, 2007) Lessons from Africa: How to Kill Your Own FUD(Nov 09, 2007) Microsoft-Novell: Has Their Deal Made a Difference?(Nov 09, 2007) Microsoft's Love for Linux Deepens Year after Year(Nov 08, 2007) Index Mode   |   Flat Mode   |   Thread Mode   |   Thread Flat     Talkback(s) Name  and Date   No need to wonder    paul Dec 24, 2007, 09:11:05     If Vista was Open Source...    OS Dec 24, 2007, 12:16:49     Re: If Vista was Open Source...    Lennie Dec 24, 2007, 14:34:47     not a bug - its a drm feature    lhcj Dec 24, 2007, 14:52:00     Re: No need to wonder    daniel Dec 24, 2007, 15:44:25     You sir are a .....    Anton Dec 24, 2007, 15:57:15     Re: You sir are a .....    paul Dec 24, 2007, 17:57:10     Help me out here, I'm confused...    Dean Pannell (aka dinotrac) Dec 24, 2007, 20:40:48     Re: No need to wonder    linux23dragon Dec 25, 2007, 01:36:57     Arithmetic    blackhole Dec 25, 2007, 09:40:08     Re: Help me out here, I'm confused...    asdfklkf\'k;l;\';[[[[[[ Dec 26, 2007, 13:24:32     Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page   Enter your comments below: * Your Name: * Your Email Address: * Subject: CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address] * Comments: Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content. Fields marked with * are required!

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