Criticism of Microsoft Windows (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The various versions of Microsoft's desktop operating system, Windows, have received many criticisms since Microsoft's inception. Windows expects the real-time clock of the computer to run on local time. Since Windows NT there has been a registry entry RealTimeIsUniversal=1, but this feature was not supported or fully implemented until Vista SP1 (Vista SP2 and Windows 7 have added support for this registry key), so it is not possible to run the real-time clock on Coordinated Universal Time, which may be desirable to, for example, avoid problems with multi-boot environments or disk images and daylight saving time, because Windows changes the real-time clock when switching to or from daylight saving time. However, other operating systems or other instances of Windows cannot know if the real-time clock has been changed already. This setting has been revised under Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7 (RC) and Windows Server 2008 R2 (Beta).