Restart Manager will fix reboot blues in Windows Vista
Jim Allchin, the Co-President of Microsoft’s Platform Products and Services Division
We’ve been hearing reports for some time of work in progress on Vista’s new Restart Manager. Now a senior figure at Redmond has spoken about the feature, which suggests the company is confident it will be included in the final feature set.
Jim Allchin, the Co-President of Microsoft’s Platform Products and Services Division says :
If a part of an application, or the operating system itself, needs to updated, the Installer will call the Restart Manager, which looks to see if it can clear that part of the system so that it can be updated. If it can do that, it does, and that happens without a reboot. If you have to reboot, then what happens is that the system, together with the applications, takes a snapshot of the state: the way things are on the screen at that very moment, and then it just updates and restarts the application, or in the case of an operating system update, it will bring the operating system back exactly where it was.
[Source: eWeek]
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6 opinions for Restart Manager will fix reboot blues in Windows Vista
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Dec 2, 2005 at 2:09 pm
[…] Microsoft announced a new feature in their upcoming desktop operating system (Vista) called the Restart Manager. Applications are getting more and more ‘updates’ these days. It seems like each week one or more of my applications has a patch or a fix and I need to run the fix and then restart the machine. Microsoft has the answer, Restart Manager will save the ’state’ of the application update it and restart the application without the user having to restart the entire machine. Great work guys! (oh, any idea when you will release Vista?) More here, here, and here. […]
Roger
Dec 2, 2005 at 10:12 pm
Let me see… How many older OS’s are there out there that rarely required a reboot? I can think of a few. Why not just fix the problem and make the OS so that it doesn’t require a restart?
Tony Krijnen (MS)
Dec 2, 2005 at 10:32 pm
The application ofcourse needs to be aware of Windows Vista and the Restart manager otherwise it will have to terminate and close all open files. Microsoft Office “12″ will fully support this feature however, as will other new versions of applications. I don’t think there will be that many at launch though that fully support this!
John
Dec 3, 2005 at 8:42 am
There’s probably a limit to how much legacy code you can replace in one go, Roger :-)
swen
Jan 11, 2006 at 11:16 am
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Matthew McGuire
Mar 15, 2006 at 3:25 pm
I have started testing Windows Vista and I have been impressed with the interface so far. Restart Manager looks like another reason to jump on board, but I will need many other reasons to make the lead. I do not think there will be a large software support base for these new features, at least not for a while.
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