news.com.com — Microsoft's launch of Windows Vista could slow down or stall traffic on the Net, said Paul Mockapetris, who is widely credited with inventing the Internet's Domain Name System Mockapetris believes Vista's introduction will cause a surge in DNS traffic because the operating system supports two versions of the Internet Protocol
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<a class="user" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=232636">http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=232636</a>Here are the many comments from the official MICROSOFT forum - on this very same articleInteresting to compare them with Digg's comments
bwhalerSep 7, 2006
I am sure this is not the case, but even the fact that we are debating it show me that there is no person left on the planet that thinks Microsoft has a shred of quality left.
oyourmomSep 7, 2006
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brenSep 7, 2006
I agree with the article - because, you know, everyone is getting Vista on the same day right?;)
soulhuntreSep 7, 2006
"For example, Microsoft designed Vista so PCs will query in the address of the type assigned to the system, the company said. Computers that don't have an IPv6 address will not do IPv6 queries, the company said. Also, when a machine does do an IPv6 query, it will do so only to a DNS server that responded to its initial IPv4 query, the company said. "Name errors are not repeated, so the Net traffic will less than double," it said."
happyscrappySep 8, 2006
OS X already supports IPv6 and turns it on by default. The larger market penetration of Windows means figure this release kill do about 15X as much damage to the internet as the release of Tiger did.And Tiger did zero, so that means Vista's release will do zero * 15, or zero.
oyourmomSep 8, 2006
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