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20th Anniversary of Windows
UltimaGuy writes "When Windows first shipped, 20 years ago this month, it was considered nothing more than a slow operating environment that had arrived late to the party, well behind the industry leaders, Apple and Xerox PARC. Now, it's the operating system used on nearly 95 percent of all the desktops and notebooks sold worldwide. Take a look at Window's past and present, and what lies ahead in the future, including an interview with Mr. Bill Gates himself."
Plus que ca change, plus que c'est la meme chose.
In Redmond, all windows are wide open.
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20th post
Huh? A /. post about Microsoft Windows WITHOUT bashing?
20 years and billions in R&D and the only change is in Longhorn we have RSOD aswell as BSOD. 20 years well spent I think./
In the not too distant future, next Sunday A.D.
20 years ago, you could safely ignore it.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
We use UNIX. We shouldn't be making cracks about using an ancient OS.
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Man, if there were EVER an article that Slashdotters weren't going to RTFA...
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Some of us use Plan 9 =p
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Plan 9 has a web browser? Who knew?
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"...was considered nothing more than a slow operating environment that had arrived late to the party, well behind the industry leaders" - how times change?
When Windows first shipped, 20 years ago this month, it was considered nothing more than a slow operating environment that had arrived late to the party, well behind the industry leaders, Apple and Xerox PARC. Today, not much has changed.
I wish I had mod point to mod you all down to hell.
Just because you have trouble making friends doesn't mean there's something wrong with the rest of us.
You see? There you went and proved his point for him. The prosecution rests.
And yes, most 20-year olds are annoying. Kinda stupid, too ;-)
(AP) Associated Press Hordes of rabid, self-described "elite open-source programmers" unable to properly keep their Windows-based PC's free of spyware, viruses. Experts attribute this to the fact that they spend all day downloading random .iso files from Russian serial/crack sites hoping to find a new Linux build that they haven't installed/reformated over on their ancient Pentium Pro machine.
Or about as long as the Serenity poll has been up.
No, the vast improvements made to the code make it faster and more secure.
Feel free to mod me "-1 - Angry Jerk".
This is one of those celebrations that starts with raising a glass and ends when one passes out holding the empty, tear-stained bottle.
Ade_
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Academician Prokhor Zakharov
"For I Have Tasted The Fruit"
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Boy I wish I had mod points to mod this funny...
Faster? I'd like to see you try to run the latest version of Windows on an 8MHz 80286.
More secure? Unlike the current version, the original version of Windows was totally immune from network-based attacks.
Windows is not old. UNIX is old, and behaves as many older people do, working calmly and quietly in the background, running everything.
That is until they (kernel) panic ans shit the bed....
Well, my text was a quote from SMAC :)
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