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Fresh Air For Windows?
jmcbain writes "The NY Times has an opinion piece on how the next Windows could be designed (even through Microsoft has already laid plans for Windows 7). The author suggests 'A monolithic operating system like Windows perpetuates an obsolete design. We don't need to load up our machines with bloated layers we won't use.' He also brings up the example of Apple breaking ties with its legacy OS when OS X was built. Can Windows move forward with a completely new, fast, and secure OS and still keep legacy application support?"
I am a big fan of Ubuntu and have several servers and workstations running the OS, but it is far from being an operating system that "Just Works". Configuring Ubuntu still basically requires significant command line work. It may Just Work in a couple of years, but at this point Windows is still a safer bet for the average consumer... well, XP, anyway.
Configuring Ubuntu still basically requires significant command line work.
Nonsense. Yes, I have systems that have required a lot of command-line work, but then again, I have a custom-created LDAP directory server complete with roaming profile support that "JUst WOrks" with Windows and Linux clients, a custom Intranet with a web portal, web-based e-mail and calendaring, Kerberos for security, complete with single sign on support, etc.
IF I just wanted a basic desktop, I can (and have) just ran the install and everything Just Works.
Stop spreading FUD.
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after the enormous and embarrassing mistakes found in Vista. It's an actual, along with a PR nightmare for them and justifiably so. Were I a stockholder, I'd have their heads.
I have spent the last year asking people what those "enormous and embarrassing mistakes" were and I have come to flag people like you as trolls.
There is nothing wrong in Vista. Nothing that I have found. Nothing that any of you wild-eyed apple fanboys can actually name. It's a new version of Windows with all the usual little annoyances but no more annoyances than XP or S.03 ever had.
Vista tanked because the consumer market saw no particular reason to upgrade from XP which is still doing what folks want it to do. That's all. Gamers who'll happily shell out $500 for a graphics card crying foul that they have to update their $50 scanners or webcams because their drivers are incompatible with Vista - and instead of blaming the manufacturers of those devices/drivers they blame MS.
I am not at all a fan of Mr. Gates, but the whole "Vista is flawed" bullshit is going to have to stop at some point. Because XP is going away. And you people sound exactly like the crop of morons who kept whining that 98SE was just fine and that you'd never change to XP because it was "buggy and bloated and unusable".
Funny how you're now unwilling to let go of it.
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