[Leaplist] [Meta/OT] Adobe PS Windows <-> CUPS broken under XP SP3

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Thu, 10/16/08, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> Here are a few. They only mention NIST & DOT directly
> & all say virtually the same thing ....<br>
> http://news.cnet.com/Federal-agencies-ban-Windows-Vista/2100-1002_3-6166868.html
> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-151512.html
> http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/US-federal-agencies-ban-Windows-Vista/0,130061733,339274225,00.htm
> I work as a contractor (NASA, (very) sporadic DoD) &
> people I work w/ directly there say they have defacto
> bans on Vista in their departments.

Although I can't answer for anyone else, I'll assume people
will want newer articles than the well-known 2007 March
edicts and related standards -- e.g., XP SP3 (2008 April)?

Microsoft just announced that the Windows XP "downgrade" option
for PC OEMs has now been extended to 2009-July.  This is despite
Windows Vista reaching SP1 (2008 February) and adopting the same
NT 6.1 kernel as Windows Server 2008.  It now seems that
"Windows 7", which is not the official name, will also still be
NT 6.1.

It seems there will be no "rescue" of NT this time.  The
"Blackcomb/Vienna" developments are not going to "rescue"
the "Longhorn" farce as much as the "Whistler" NT 5.1 development
(which became XP) "rescued" most of the Windows branch of
from the vaporware that never came out of "Cairo" (NT 3.51-
4.0) and still had issues in NT 5 (Windows 2000).

Again, Windows 7 is _not_ NT 7, it's still NT 6.1, same non-
sense in Vista SP1 / Windows Server 2008.  And NT 6.1 from
NT 6 wasn't any change like it was from NT 5.1 (XP) from
NT 5 (2000).


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