[Year 12 IT Apps] Software tool strips Win Vista to bare bones

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

An interesting email today from Tony (who runs the Link mailing list
courtesy of ANU, and has done since inception as a poobah in the ANU
Library, and whom is an excellent-thing). Stand by for tada! MinWin!

> Subject: [LINK] Software Tool Strips Windows Vista To Bare Bones
> Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 20:52:44 +1100
> From: Antony Barry <tony at tony-barry.emu.id.au

<a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/28/1514212&from=rss">

Preedit writes "A free download that can cut Windows Vista's  
gargantuan footprint by half or more is developing a big following on  
the Internet. vLite is a configuration tool that lets users  
automatically delete a lot of unnecessary Vista components &mdash;  
such as Windows Media Player and MSN installer; to pare the OS  
down to a reasonable size. The software is catching on. An  
InformationWeek story notes that a forum that asks users to suggest  
new features has drawn nearly 50,000 page views. Meanwhile, Microsoft  
officials have themselves conceded that Vista is "bloated" and are  
developing the next version of Windows on a core called MinWin, which  
is smaller than Vista by an order of magnitude." <http://www.vlite.net>
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Cheers people
Stephen Loosley
Victoria, Australia