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Professor Testifies Windows Is Modular, Separable
circlejtp writes: "Princeton University professor Andrew Appel said in written testimony that modular design is an accepted standard in the industry, and Microsoft has already created a version of Windows for interactive television boxes that has removable functions. The full story can be found on the Tacoma Tribune website." At issue is Microsoft's claim that separating Windows' components would cripple the OS.
What do they mean, Windows would be crippled? ;-)
Cheers,
Tim
It's official. Most of you are morons.
maybe someone will figure out how to uninstall the BSOD program... it tends to run randomly and always seems to crash my computer.
Nosce te Ipsum
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That's right, Cmdr. Taco has ensured that, from now on, .NET banner ads would run with every MS story. With all the positive press Microsoft already receives from /., this targeted advertising is sure to draw wheelbarrows of money from click-throughs.
Or not. Hey, someone make sure there're no nanoprobes in Taco's bloodstream. . .
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!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
there's another professor who will never work in this country again.
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Where did M$ coders learn how to code? Don't they know that building large systems in a modular fashion makes everything evil? It seems like Microsoft is trying to get us to believe that their flagship product is a tangled mess of inseperable code that they can't sort out.
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but then they'll do like they did during the court case in 1999 and make a version of Windows which simply doesn't work.
As opposed to all the other times when it did work.
So if I cannot remove Media Player or Internet Explorer, to replace them with something else that I prefer...
If you can't do that then you suck at computers because my mom can do that.
but then they'll do like they did during the court case in 1999 and make a version of Windows which simply doesn't work
You mean like WinME?
I pledge allegiance to the flag...
of the Corporate States of America...
Without the intrusive middleware, the thing would actually work. People would not be looking for the latest version, and hence rely on their doggedly old Windows1836, just as we have old clunkers on the road.
Since a working windows would not help Microsoft take over the world, it would be ....
crippled!
{OT subject="cripple"}Years ago, I heard that you could circumvent viruses by renaming command.com to 1234567.com, and doing a few string hacks in the kernel. Lots of other 7-letter words work: legless.com and cripple.com. Armed with the wheel-chair icon, it makes a dandy command propt for Windows.{/OT}
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