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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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"Which isn't half bad"
Hmmm. So to compare a years late offering from the company that basically created the need for virtualization with its own servers uable to share multiple apps - and thus create spawl - and then throw smack at a totally free product from a company thats made huge progress solving the problem and evolving IT in new ways... PLEASE.
ESXi is FREE with many Dell servers now and that actually supports live OS migration, unlike "quick migration" aka "Hows about a broken network connection" from Hyper-V, and oh yeah, you want to move just one server? Hope it has its own LUN...
Without VMware rattling their cage MS would've never gotten off its ass to cough up the tired 1.0 of Hyper V in the first place. Thank Crom for VMware. They made the flabby giant move! /. has had a real forgiving streak for windows lately, wonder whats up with editorial. i think they are now wildly overcompensating for their last over reaction.
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 $50 scanners or webcams because their drivers are incompatible with Vista - and instead of blaming the manufacturers of those devices/drivers they blame MS.
I am not at all a fan of Mr. Gates, but the whole "Vista is flawed" bullshit is going to have to stop at some point. Because XP is going away. And you people sound exactly like the crop of morons who kept whining that 98SE was just fine and that you'd never change to XP because it was "buggy and bloated and unusable".
Funny how you're now unwilling to let go of it.
We're all born with nothing.
If you die in debt, you're ahead.
There is nothing wrong in Vista. Nothing that I have found.
You talk about people being trolls? This is the biggest troll statement I've seen here in a while.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
You aren't such a stupid niger that you belive that fud that M$ keeps spreading.
Windows is based on dos, and dos was exausted its usefulness years ago and is very un-stable. Dont belive me? go to Start|run and type in 'command.com'. (that was the filename of the original dos.
To me it seems like it was totally fucking retarded that they keep useing this system and don't build windows on top of linux. linux is stable and nice and free. Even a company like M$ could use it, it says so in the contract to use linux.
All you're good for is nerd rage. You can't even think any more.
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.