Take an operating system like Linux or FreeBSD...The kernel is very compact, it only contains drivers and provides the environment that init can use... That's it... Straight to the point... Everything after that.. is basically optional... Anyone who has ever created there own boot/root disks knows that...
The problem with Microsoft is that they don't understand that bundling applications with the core operating system (IE, a web browser) will cause nothing but problems when it comes to stability and performance. Try killing explorer.exe in Windows 2000, does it always respawn? Can you still use the console without explore running? Everything is too intertwined to consider there systems trust-worthy...
I know that most companies don't really care if there system goes down once or twice a year...because the OS is relatively cheap...and there is someone there to restart it... but isn't the whole point of a critical system to never crash?
The thing I like about unix or BSD like systems is that anything can be killed and restarted...There is no need to hit that power button.
Of course they don't want to spend the extra money... If you force them to take out IE and Media Player it hurts the busniess.. why would you want to spend extra money so you will loose money?
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Take an operating system like Linux or FreeBSD...The kernel is very compact, it only contains drivers and provides the environment that init can use... That's it... Straight to the point... Everything after that.. is basically optional... Anyone who has ever created there own boot/root disks knows that...
The problem with Microsoft is that they don't understand that bundling applications with the core operating system (IE, a web browser) will cause nothing but problems when it comes to stability and performance. Try killing explorer.exe in Windows 2000, does it always respawn? Can you still use the console without explore running? Everything is too intertwined to consider there systems trust-worthy...
I know that most companies don't really care if there system goes down once or twice a year...because the OS is relatively cheap...and there is someone there to restart it... but isn't the whole point of a critical system to never crash? The thing I like about unix or BSD like systems is that anything can be killed and restarted...There is no need to hit that power button.
Of course they don't want to spend the extra money... If you force them to take out IE and Media Player it hurts the busniess.. why would you want to spend extra money so you will loose money?