In defense of Windows Vista's Restart Manager.
In the last week there were three RSS feeds I follow that mentioned the new Restart Manager service in Windows Vista. First, Mary Jo Foley says, "The technology is designed to update parts of the operating system or applications without having to reboot the entire machine." That sentence is slightly misleading because the Restart Manager isn't actually responsible for actually updating anything but we'll get to what the Restart Manager is really all about in a minute.