Comments on: Windows Vista vs. Mac OSX

By: designer

designer — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:31:20 +0000

Mac OSX is the best! And you can forget about viruses!

By: Stefan Mischook

Stefan Mischook — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:37:49 +0000

@ Glenn Watson,

“… but yeah there are a lot of trickiness for OS creators in this issue and its not “simple””

Perhaps not. But it seems that Mac OSX makes it seem so.

By: Glenn Watson

Glenn Watson — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:12:08 +0000

Early process termination is tricky.

Programs go haywire, they don’t do what you expect, and they are possibly programmed dodgily by someone else outside the OS. When the user asks that you end the process, you want to give the application a last minute chance to close down properly, so that it can save the files etc.

Whats really happens when you ask it to end the process in windows is the following;

It signals the application to close itself (so it gets a chance to prompt the user to save files or whatever)
Then it brings up the dialog asking if you really want to terminate the application, just in case the program is prompting you if you want to save the file and you haven’t got around to clicking yes yet.

In vista they put a whole new process management in, to help make it a lot quicker, but yeah there are a lot of trickiness for OS creators in this issue and its not “simple”

By: Stefan Mischook

Stefan Mischook — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:40:16 +0000

@Will,

I only played around with Vista so I cannot say too much about it.

But from what I’ve seen … I’m not impressed.

The inability to terminate a process in Windows is probably the #1 reason for me to not like using Windows much anymore.

By: Will

Will — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 11:28:19 +0000

Well, actually.. when I want to close a program on Windows Vista, it closes. I don’t know where you got your “multiple prompt” theory from, but definitely not from something I’ve seen in my month of using Vista.

Though to be fair, I’m trying to terminate a rogue Photoshop CS2 process right now, and it’s really not happening

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:15:21 +0000

Another person turning to the dark side….

By: Amitav Roy

Amitav Roy — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:34:00 +0000

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