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Why Windows is Slow
hype7 writes "The New York Times is running an article on why they think Windows is so slow. They boil it down to one key factor - legacy support - and they hold up Apple as an example of a company willing to make hard decisions around legacy support in order to provide a better product. From the article: 'Windows is now so big and onerous because of the size of its code base, the size of its ecosystem and its insistence on compatibility with the legacy hardware and software, that it just slows everything down ... That's why a company like Apple has such an easier time of innovation.'"
I'd have had first post if windows wasn't so slow. :-(
the many unneeded software one ironically has to run along with windows: ...
- antivirus software
- antispy software
Maybe this is why Vista is taking so long to come out. They are programming it in Windows.
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Maybe Zonk is running windows?
Ho! Haha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Ha! Thrust!
It's mind boggling to me how you can be modded insightful by saing "This OS is slow for me", without even knowing what the heck the user is trying to do or what hardware the system uses. It's not mind boggling, it's slashdot!
Damn... Is Google running Windows too?
We are so overloaded with information that we don't see everything that is presented to us. Content providers have determined the obvious solution is to present everything twice, hoping that people will get caught the second time around.
We are so overloaded with information that we don't see everything that is presented to us. Content providers have determined the obvious solution is to present everything twice, hoping that people will get caught the second time around.
My Windows is so slow because I've got so many games installed on it. But unlike my Windows box, my Linux box flies, even when I play Tetris.