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P2P apps allergic to Windows Vista Beta 1
by Jordan Running Aug 3rd 2005 at 2:52PM
Julian at the File Sharing Blog tested a bevy of P2P apps, including KaZaA, BitTorrent, and LimeWire, on Windows Vista Beta 1, and found that about half of them exhibit serious GUI issues, the other half had serious network issues, and none of them worked well. While it's unreasonable to expect a beta -- and especially a beta of a Microsoft OS -- to perform especially well, these results seem staggeringly bad. Is Vista really beta-quality software yet?
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James Hare said 3:09PM on 8-03-2005
While the GUI problems could come from new routines, it seems hard to believe that Microsoft would change the TCP/IP stack in Windows so much that standard internet applications would cease functioning. Honestly, it sounds like the beginning of the new strategy of Trusted Computing and everything else to gradually take away our ability to use our own computers as we see fit. I really believe Microsoft broke these programs on purpose. It'll be interesting to see if they fix it or not.
James
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Steven said 3:10PM on 8-03-2005
I'm sorry, but using a picture that shows someone looking off into the distance for an OS isn't a good thing.
That guy must be saying "Dang, that's a long way away."
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Joe said 4:17PM on 8-03-2005
Like James I feel this may be intentional - but then again Microsoft must realize that if they break it someone will find a way around it. Seems we will have to wait and see.
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Eagle117 said 5:53PM on 8-03-2005
Also remember that this is a closed beta at the moment. It isn't intended to be a public beta so don't be surprised if random programs don't work.
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David Ron said 7:17PM on 8-03-2005
Perhaps it's not as bad as one might think. There are changes to Internet explorer, for instance, which most P2P applications use to view HTML formatted content in a browser window embedded into the application. Additionally, this software might be using undocumented APIs that changed, but because they are undocumented, they shouldn't have been used in the first place.
People, stop freaking out about little things like this. The vendors will fix their programs. Everything will work fine when Vista is released. By the way, this is coming from a Linux user who doesn't even use Windows (and happens to not like Windows at all).
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Sauce said 8:52PM on 8-03-2005
Well BitLord works fine in Vista so far in my tests, and I'm not sure why you would think this really isn't ready. I've been using it for almost a week with no Real problems ( by real I mean anything beyond normal windows issues). I think it's a fine piece of software and I'm gonna be disappointed when it expires...(Any one got a crack for That yet?)
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