VB6 Crashes when exiting app

[Barabajagal]

Actually, I'd be very much afraid of hardware controlled completely by a Microsoft product...

[MyndFyre]

Actually, I'd be very much afraid of hardware controlled completely by a Microsoft product...

That's entirely irrelevant to what I just said.

[Barabajagal]

Yes, and everything the last few pages has been talking about has been irrelevant to the topic.

[Dale]

Yes, and everything the last few pages has been talking about has been irrelevant to the topic.

Not necessarily, the fact that Microsoft Window sucks, may be the problem to Visual Basic crashing?

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

the general software bloat trend is disgusting, scary, and a conspiracy. the only good thing that has come from software bloat is VM languages.

[Warrior]

It's pointless to argue over who did what first. Even if the information you use to support your argument is fact, it still doesn't change the bottom line: Aero is egregiously slow.

I've seen benchmarks, supported by my own personal experience, that indicate Aero is responsible for as much as a 150% slowdown in window draw time when compared to the classic windows style. If you've got a top of the line computer with a top of the line graphics card, you probably wont notice the difference, but I for one will not be installing Vista any time soon.

Leopard runs just fine on my MacBook. I've got the GM850 graphics card (it's a shitty integrated Intel card), and it has no problems drawing any of the effects in OSX.

I think Myndy hit the nail on the head, when Apple controls the hardware and the software it's very easy to optimize the system for performance.

There are various trade offs, assumptions, etc made when handling with such a wide array of hardware. Aero takes advantage of modern hardware, so OEMs are going to have to step up their game and give people quality parts.

It pushes the envelope on the evolution of that specific field of technology, so it can't all be a bad thing.

Even so, there's no doubt in my mind with all this taken into account that Aero is still a hog. It's a 1.0 technology, and I know for a fact that the compositor in OSX was not as fast as it is today, the day it was released.