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Windows Monoculture Myopia Revisited

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the laughing-all-the-way-to-the-bank dept.

round stic writes "eWeek magazine has an interesting look at the effects of the Windows monoculture on IT budgets, even as everyone agrees on the severity of the inherent security risks. The article contains interviews with Dan Geer and others who warned about the risks of the Windows monopoly three years ago. The article coincides with a piece in the Observer that suggests Vista is the end of the Microsoft monolith because of how complex the operating system has become."

6 of 319 comments (clear)

  1. Re:bah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    >it's a bunch of bologna.

    The software marketplace is all very convoluted, it's a bunch of spaghetti

  2. Re:End of a monopoly by smittyoneeach · · Score: 2, Funny

    Old monopolies don't die, they just limp along amidst mockery.

    Note the fact that there are plenty of reptiles in circulation, even beyond public office.

    --
    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  3. Re:bah by Xiph1980 · · Score: 1, Funny

    So you're saying that the IT sector has been touched by his noodly appendage?

    --
    Manuals are your last resort only
  4. Re:Please read the Observer article before comment by dbIII · · Score: 3, Funny
    It suggest that building big, monolithic applications has reached an end as Vista shows that even a huge company like MS can't really write complex software in this way anymore.

    So are you saying that their cathedral is bizzare?

  5. Re:Please read the Observer article before comment by howlingmadhowie · · Score: 2, Funny

    no, it's not a rant. it's english journalism. the idea of english journalism is to entertain the reader. you have to be able to separate the facts from the polemnic. it is an established tradition in england.

  6. Re:TFA perpetuates myth by Grishnakh · · Score: 3, Funny

    And their last gasp of a power-play, .NET, where they pretended to be "open" - but not really, has (in my observation) done nothing more than alienate formerly loyal Developers for the Win23 platform

    I think developers had already left the Win23 platform, as it was quite obscure and really sucked. There weren't very many 23-bit CPUs available, and they could only support 8MB of memory. And what idiot would ever design a CPU with a 23-bit memory bus anyway?