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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 536772" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>Not to pick nits here, but that's incorrect. Vista is just grafted onto the same NT/2000 architecture that XP ran on. They've modernized the GDI, but under the hood (or the bonnet as you might say), it's still closely related to NT/2000/XP, just as DOS/Windows 3.1/95/98/Me were all incremental updates. The big changeover happened when Microsoft shifted the consumer base over to the NT family with the advent of XP. </p><p></p><p>The reason that a Vista upgrade may have been smoother than previous Windows upgrades is because Vista doesn't actually do an upgrade. It drops a disk image on the hard drive, caching the old data and then customizes it post install. So, while it may look very much like an upgrade, it's more in-line with what happens when you do a clean install.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 536772, member: 24098"] Not to pick nits here, but that's incorrect. Vista is just grafted onto the same NT/2000 architecture that XP ran on. They've modernized the GDI, but under the hood (or the bonnet as you might say), it's still closely related to NT/2000/XP, just as DOS/Windows 3.1/95/98/Me were all incremental updates. The big changeover happened when Microsoft shifted the consumer base over to the NT family with the advent of XP. The reason that a Vista upgrade may have been smoother than previous Windows upgrades is because Vista doesn't actually do an upgrade. It drops a disk image on the hard drive, caching the old data and then customizes it post install. So, while it may look very much like an upgrade, it's more in-line with what happens when you do a clean install. [/QUOTE]
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