> That's right, Windows 98 is a great product. Anyone who says otherwise is a pro-Linux zelot or a fool. Of course you must have known this would elicit a few knee-jerk responses. Having researched and designed operating systems for some time, I can not disagree more with this statement. Windows is a despicable piece of software that goes against almost everything that is known about OS design and human factors knowledge. It is just really really unfortunate that its arguably the best OS available to do what it does. That just goes to show that MS really is a monopoly and has single handedly held back the development of commodity OS software by at least a decade (and consequently hardware and application software). The world would have been a very very different place without MS - considerably more 'advanced' in terms of commodity s/w & hardware. (of course some other company would probably have filled the same niche and behaved in a similar way - a capatilist downfall). (we should more subsequent discussion - if any - to another thread)
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> That's right, Windows 98 is a great product. Anyone who says otherwise is a pro-Linux zelot or a fool. Of course you must have known this would elicit a few knee-jerk responses. Having researched and designed operating systems for some time, I can not disagree more with this statement. Windows is a despicable piece of software that goes against almost everything that is known about OS design and human factors knowledge. It is just really really unfortunate that its arguably the best OS available to do what it does. That just goes to show that MS really is a monopoly and has single handedly held back the development of commodity OS software by at least a decade (and consequently hardware and application software). The world would have been a very very different place without MS - considerably more 'advanced' in terms of commodity s/w & hardware. (of course some other company would probably have filled the same niche and behaved in a similar way - a capatilist downfall). (we should more subsequent discussion - if any - to another thread)