I think they're fast approaching the point where they will have no choice. Where if they want to continue producing a useful OS that people will actually buy, they will need to innovate, and to innovate they will need to break compatibility.
There are plenty of things that I think Windows would benefit from.
Things like removing drive lettering, would be quite helpful. But would break everything ever written for Windows.
Things like completely redoing the start bar from scratch to make it actually useful would break every program installer that wants to create a shortcut.
Removing that God-awful registry would break a lot of programs.
Or making Internet Explorer swappable for another browser, as in, being able to completely remove it. There goes everything hard coded to use IE and expects it to be there, such a Steam.
They should just break binary compatibility and get it over with.
... those cheating AI's commonly found in EA games. Namely NFS: Most Wanted. The computer somehow managed to keep up with my car which was doing in excess of 400km/h. Also the police somehow managed to find me when after a quick trip outside the level because I was travelling to fast, I spawned over the other side of the map.
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Clippy disappeared between 97 and 2k7, that alone is worth upgrading for.
Defending Vista? You must be new here.
I think they're fast approaching the point where they will have no choice. Where if they want to continue producing a useful OS that people will actually buy, they will need to innovate, and to innovate they will need to break compatibility. There are plenty of things that I think Windows would benefit from. Things like removing drive lettering, would be quite helpful. But would break everything ever written for Windows. Things like completely redoing the start bar from scratch to make it actually useful would break every program installer that wants to create a shortcut. Removing that God-awful registry would break a lot of programs. Or making Internet Explorer swappable for another browser, as in, being able to completely remove it. There goes everything hard coded to use IE and expects it to be there, such a Steam. They should just break binary compatibility and get it over with.
... those cheating AI's commonly found in EA games. Namely NFS: Most Wanted. The computer somehow managed to keep up with my car which was doing in excess of 400km/h. Also the police somehow managed to find me when after a quick trip outside the level because I was travelling to fast, I spawned over the other side of the map.