Re: How workable is Vista?

Vladimir Vassilevsky wrote:
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 :)

So where did I mention 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$? :)

Do you claim that the vast majority of users are intelligent enough to
be
able to make such a choice? :-)

BTW, I am not using linux either.

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.

So do you claim this 9x joke can be called an OS?

(I am not disputing the fact that it did what was intended).

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.

Far from small. In a very bloated and clumsy way they made
something resembling an OS with a reentrant filesystem; now they
can(?) work based on that towards a real multitask OS.

Unfortunately, Vista seems to be away from this path.

If it indeed takes 10x RAM it is bound to remain useless. Just like
silicon is hitting the physical boundaries which are around 25-35 nm,
bloating software is reaching its limits of acceptance as well.
Once software seems to be ahead of hardware for a change.... :-).

Didi

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