Vista could hurt the Internet

BACKROOM BOFFINS are ruminating over whether Microsoft's new super soaraway operating system Vista will clog up the Internet.

According to the bloke who invented the DNS system, Paul Mockapetris, Vista's introduction will increase DNS traffic. This is because the operating system supports Internet 6 and 4.

This means that adopters of Vista will have double the amount of DNS traffic and this will cause serious consequences for the already over stretched DNS servers. He predicts brown outs and other terrible woes.

Other boffins admit that Vista will cause a spike in DNS traffic but not the stuff that brown outs are made of. They say this is all FUD, as they usually do.

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