Microsoft Touts Vista’s Restart Manager Feature
> Microsoft Corp. is working on a significant new feature for Windows Vista, known as Restart Manager, which is designed to update parts of the operating system or applications without having to reboot the entire machine.
About time, Unixen have had this since way back when. Rebooting is a horrible solution, and it’s not all that hard to do correctly. Let’s just hope this thing works more often than not, as Windows has a tendancy to refuse letting go of file-locks it has aquired even though the program using the file is long gone.
