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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Resol@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Also correct. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent
