• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Windows finally got animations and transparency when Mac OS has beaten it by 6 years. Truly an oomph moment.

    The actual technological advancement of Vista was userspace graphics drivers.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, XP did that with most of the drivers other than graphics, which lead to a reduction in BSOD crashes (because if a user thread crashes, the OS just kills it and continues on, but an unhandled kernel error will crash the entire OS to a generic “turn the screen blue, report and error, and log it, if possible”).

      Vista further improved this by moving most of the graphics driver code out of kernel land.