Freecell card pack

MS auto-update recently installed SP1. It overwrote FreeCell.exe, which I
had substituted with an earlier release of FreeCell. The Vista version has
extremely crappy card graphics, which are unattractive and hard to read.

This raised a couple of questions:

1. Why did Microsoft need (or want) to change the FreeCell card design for
Vista, which previously were the same as in Solitaire (and you could
reasonably argue that Solitaire was a large part of the success of Windows
3.0) ? Just compare the graphics on the Vista versions of Solitaire and
FreeCell and you can see how much worse the FreeCell cards are, when
previously they were the same as Solitaire.

2. Why did SP1 feel the need to overwrite FreeCell? Did it harbour some
security vulnerability that could be used for DDoS attack or something?

"Peter Webb" <> wrote in message
news:48c67d30$0$4453$ ...
> MS auto-update recently installed SP1. It overwrote FreeCell.exe, which I
> had substituted with an earlier release of FreeCell. The Vista version has
> extremely crappy card graphics, which are unattractive and hard to read.
>
> This raised a couple of questions:
>
> 1. Why did Microsoft need (or want) to change the FreeCell card design for
> Vista, which previously were the same as in Solitaire (and you could
> reasonably argue that Solitaire was a large part of the success of Windows
> 3.0) ? Just compare the graphics on the Vista versions of Solitaire and
> FreeCell and you can see how much worse the FreeCell cards are, when
> previously they were the same as Solitaire.
>
> 2. Why did SP1 feel the need to overwrite FreeCell? Did it harbour some
> security vulnerability that could be used for DDoS attack or something?
>
>

The decks in FreeCell and Solitaire are the same in the SP1 release.
The use of common code ensure shorter development and testing cycles and
reduces the size of the test matrix.
The SP1 install overwrote your older FreeCell.exe as it overwrote ALL older
out of date operating system shipped files on your system,

--

Mike Brannigan

<shakes head>


--
Vista Home Premium 32 SP1
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"Warp 10" <> wrote in message
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> You are on target about asking about freecell.
>
> Vista sole purpose is to run freecell and even its version was crap.... so
> crap that it needed service packs..
>
> all other software runs worse in vista than in xp or cant run at all.
>
>> 2. Why did SP1 feel the need to overwrite FreeCell? Did it harbour some
>> security vulnerability that could be used for DDoS attack or something?
>
> Microsoft just loves to change things that have no meaning while ignoring
> the requests of millions about things that do have meaning..
>
> it's the microsoft way and Vista really showed to everyone that all the
> bad reputation MS had before XP was actually true.
>
>
>
>
> "Peter Webb" <> wrote in message
> news:48c67d30$0$4453$ ...
>> MS auto-update recently installed SP1. It overwrote FreeCell.exe, which I
>> had substituted with an earlier release of FreeCell. The Vista version
>> has extremely crappy card graphics, which are unattractive and hard to
>> read.
>>
>> This raised a couple of questions:
>>
>> 1. Why did Microsoft need (or want) to change the FreeCell card design
>> for Vista, which previously were the same as in Solitaire (and you could
>> reasonably argue that Solitaire was a large part of the success of
>> Windows 3.0) ? Just compare the graphics on the Vista versions of
>> Solitaire and FreeCell and you can see how much worse the FreeCell cards
>> are, when previously they were the same as Solitaire.
>>
>> 2. Why did SP1 feel the need to overwrite FreeCell? Did it harbour some
>> security vulnerability that could be used for DDoS attack or something?
>>
>>