lostinblue
Banned
They were chasing after MacOS that was doing everything Vista was trying to, thing is Apple ran a clean kernel they were constantly updating and deprecating stuff in, making it lean enough and where apps had to be developed as the operating system allowed (they mostly had or at least were encouraged to use stuff like the included gui libraries and os services, much like they did with iOS later). This meant in 2005 OSX Tiger had resolution independence working, minimizing and maximizing windows was lag free, ran at 60 fps and was handled by the GPU using OpenGL on textures even if the system was being hit hard (this of course helped in making it seem responsive, even if it wasn't); they also introduced Spotlight which is the intelligent search function with indexing (that, at the time of release was already more advanced than the one in windows currently is, with a thesaurus, calculator, measure and money converting tolls built in) and the long deprecated dashboard that inexplicably is a new feature in Windows 11.Vista was an OS built for computers that wouldn’t go on sale for another three or four years. They were doing too much for the hardware at the time.
Being on MacOS when Vista happened was kinda fun as they were trying to mimic everything that made their competition work, without understanding how to get there. Arguably it felt like being a generation apart, and it sure doesn't seem like Microsoft crossed that river yet, everything that was true back then still is, but props to them to having kept at it for so long without breaking the mold.
Thing with Core Image was that apple had a walled garden where every machine they sold had a gpu and enough video RAM for it to support Quartz/Core Image, they started preparing for that 2/3 years before it was a reality whereas Microsoft decided that aero would force people and manufacturers to spend more on GPU's.
Doesn't help that every part of Windows was, as usual the definition of feature creeping, disjointed at best, hacky and a bunch of pieces without a overlying structure at worst.
I'd say you don't have to, the OS is too similar to Windows 10 for it the update to break something. I would update windows 10 as far as it goes (or at least all the way up until the end of last year) and then update to windows 11.Quick question: if I upgrade to Windows 11, should I bite the bullet and do a full clean install via windows installation media? Have any of you had trouble going from 10 to 11 the quick and dirty way? Old rule of thumb is always do a clean install for a new OS version.
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