Microsoft Corp. will provide support for the IEEE1394b standard "within a reasonable time" after the launch of Windows Vista, according to a Microsoft Corp. representative who attended the IEEE1394 Trade Association meeting held here last week.
The Windows Vista is the software giant's flagship operating system, whose broad launch is expected in January, 2007.
Microsoft, which already supports IEEE1394a in Windows XP, will extend its support to the 800Mbit/s transfer rates in the IEEE1394b standard.
Although it won't be ready for Vista's initial release, Mark Slezak, program manager, Windows Device Experience Group at Microsoft, said support for 1394b would be available in a service pack, after the release of Windows Vista.
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The Windows Vista is the software giant's flagship operating system, whose broad launch is expected in January, 2007.
Microsoft, which already supports IEEE1394a in Windows XP, will extend its support to the 800Mbit/s transfer rates in the IEEE1394b standard.
Although it won't be ready for Vista's initial release, Mark Slezak, program manager, Windows Device Experience Group at Microsoft, said support for 1394b would be available in a service pack, after the release of Windows Vista.
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1394b has been out on OSX for years and they didn't even include support for it in SP2 let alone vista at release?
tsssss
I am all for support, but 1394b really isn't all that big yet. If I had to choose between waiting longer for 1394b or waiting longer for Vista to release with 1394b I would take the first all day long.
This isn't new at all:
USB 2.0 - Added with Windows XP SP1
BlueTooth - Added with Windows XP SP2
802.11 wireless - Added with Windows XP
1394a - Added with Windows XP (or may have been 2000).
Again, all of these devices would work before support was added, but you would have to use 3rd party software/drives which are sometimes less stable than Microsoft's.
I'd rather put up without that support for faster vista any day of the week.
You can search the web for others:
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=1394b...ndows&FORM=QBHP
I thought even Apple abandoned it recently.
Firewire is still better than USB (devices don't need a host controller to talk to each other, and it's faster)
And yes, of course people use FireWire (OS X 10.4 even requires a Mac with FireWire ports by default) , but I guess it's not as popular when MS either messes up the support or don't support its full performance.
Last edited by Jugalator on 01 May 2006 - 13:36
I think "Fiji" will be 98 again. It will include all the stuff dropped from Vista. And at the moment, that's a lot.
Including, but not limited to:
The sidebar was also never called a taskbar replacement.
So, look for this sometime around 2008 to 2010.
The feature has been cut back to the point that it's barely there anymore... it is effectively a feature drop and something that I'm disappointed by.
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