Anybody remember Windows 95/98? When updating certain drivers, or system files, you would get "Restarting Windows...", instead of a cold boot from the beginning which you get now with every update, no matter what it is in XP? And they call this progress?
It may not have brought you completely back where you were, but if you had a window open, or a network drive window open, it brought you right back to it.
Back with 95/98/ME, at least you got to choose what you wanted to install with the OS, you had a selection screen, then, they pack all that crap into XP, get sued by different countries for having all the software tied in...then go and make different OSes which give you the option (again) to install what you want. Now, they're coming out with 7 brands of Vista. WOW, they call that progress when all they're doing is going back to a past most of the common users have forgotten about...and bringing it forward again.
"If you have to reboot, then what happens is that the system, together with the applications, takes a snapshot of the state: the way things are on the screen at that very moment, and then it just updates and restarts the application, or in the case of an operating system update, it will bring the operating system back exactly where it was,"
Pointless, seeing as we all get "please make sure you have no other running programs while installing...blah blah blah" Most of us update system drivers without apps being open anyways, and alot of programs that have internal update features don't usually require a restart of the program.
This isn't news...well, except to point out how MS thinks of it's computer users.
