__/ [ Ivan Groznii ] on Thursday 27 July 2006 17:14 \__
> arachnid wrote:
>
>> Perhaps the demands of a modern consumer OS have reached such a high level
>> of complexity that OS design now exceeds Microsoft's capabilities?
>
> I remember reading a thoroughly retarded article in the New York Times
> a long time ago which said that the reason why people preferred Windows
> over Mac or Linux was because they preferred novelty over stability.
> Well boys, the novelty doesn't work any longer - proving novelty is
> worthless without stability.
Novelty or 'eye candy'? Or cost perhaps? I believe the factor was not
necessarily stability when I was a youngster. Here you talk about the Mac,
i.e. desktop computing.
> Someone ought to get a ducking stool for the Windows development
> managers for being so damn stupid as to continue with this mindless
> philosophy.
The system was badly architectured and it's too late to reverse that. Not
even Singularity can catch up.
>> > Good on the Debian people - they're some of the best.
>>
>> At this rate, we'll have Vista before the wintrolls do! :oP
>
> Ubuntu looks good to me. I've got it to impersonate Mac OS X; all for
> free.
FWIW, you could 'pull a Vista' as well.
Best wishes,
Roy
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