Re: How workable is Vista?



Didi wrote:
Vladimir Vassilevsky wrote:

Paul Keinanen wrote:

The Microsoft 9x family was quite useless for any serious
applications,

Like what?

Like any :-).

Linuxopathia: cursing Bill Gates and M$ at all occasions, and preaching the greatness of Linux :)

If Linux is so good, and free, and Windows is so bad, and it is 2008 already, then why the vast majority of developers and users prefer M$? :)

Come on, you will not call this joke an OS?

I consider Win95 to be the excellent work for what it was intended to. M$ did a significant leap forward while maintaining the 100% compatibility with DOS/Win3.x legacy and keeping the performance.

XP is a lot stabler and might be called "a vastly bloated
and inefficient - but sort of working - OS", I suppose.

The NT/Win2k/XP was a path of small useful improvements. Unfortunately, Vista seems to be away from this path.


Vladimir Vassilevsky
DSP and Mixed Signal Design Consultant
http://www.abvolt.com
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