No, repainting is what it is. When it breaks it's considered screen
tearing. What are you going to tell us next? Windows is the broken way MS
let's users use applications?

"screen tearing" is a technical term that describes the phenomenon related to
drawing in the primary frame buffer while it is being output to the monitor.
The fact that people are misusing the term does not make it valid.

Furthermore, the repainting didn't "fail" or "break" (if it did, it would be
a bug). It was delayed, which is exactly the way it is designed by Microsoft
to work. I refererred to Microsoft's solution as a "broken" technique
implying the technique is bad, not that the repainting itself failed.

There you have it folks! "invader" could have saved us all many headaches
over all these years! It took you one day to figure out what took MS many
years.

I have news for you -- most important problems in computer science were
solved decades ago. Most of the technology used in Windows Vista is already
old. Such is the nature of computer science. Microsoft has a research
department. They read technical journals and participate in conferences. To
pretend that Microsoft is the first one to think of these techniques is
silly.

The same can be said of nearly all the new technology in Vista (UAC, Shadow
copies, image backup, disk encryption, desktop search, ...)

Let's bring Michael's post into this branch:

Very well, he has quoted three accurate definitions of screen tearing and two
instances where Microsoft has misused the term to describe repaint delay in
the GDI.

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