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Re: Microsoft patents Operating System Shutdown

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Post by bigfudge » Wed, Sep 01, 2010, 7:15 PM UTC

whyme wrote: post #3

That's all right. Using my Mac I rarely have to anyway... and really wonder if I even need to.

Admittedly the parent post is somewhat fanboyish, but it's true that the macbook (and imac) sleep functions are light years ahead of most PC laptops. They sleep very quickly on closing the lid, and resume fast too... I've never found sleep to be as effective on Dells given to me by work.

Re: Microsoft patents Operating System Shutdown

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Post by mootothemax » Wed, Sep 01, 2010, 9:48 PM UTC

The flowchart seems to describe the current Windows 7 shutdown sequence. As much as I hate to say it: if this is so obvious, why hasn't any other operating system implemented it?

Re: Microsoft patents Operating System Shutdown

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Post by walkon » Wed, Sep 01, 2010, 10:18 PM UTC

bigfudge wrote: post #11

whyme wrote: post #3

That's all right. Using my Mac I rarely have to anyway... and really wonder if I even need to.

Admittedly the parent post is somewhat fanboyish, but it's true that the macbook (and imac) sleep functions are light years ahead of most PC laptops. They sleep very quickly on closing the lid, and resume fast too... I've never found sleep to be as effective on Dells given to me by work.

Avoiding reboots in definitely preferred. I've heard very good things about Mac's sleep speeds, but I have a home built PC and Lenovo ThinkPad that do ok. They take around 5-10 seconds to go from in or out of sleep which is fast enough that I don't think about it and I usually only reboot to install Microsoft Updates, which is a different story.

Re: Microsoft patents Operating System Shutdown

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Post by mattmanser » Wed, Sep 01, 2010, 11:49 PM UTC

mattmanser wrote: post #8

Pity that they're incapable of actually implementing this properly.

Sod the d/vs, they really have utterly failed at implementing this properly.

In win7 on shutdown on various different computers I constantly get empty dialogs saying "waiting for the following windows to close:"

With an entirely empty dialog...

The actual offending programs are Outlook and Steam. But MS programmers screwed up the implementation of this patent.

Just another example of a patent being worth jack without implementation.