__/ [ Roy Culley ] on Wednesday 15 November 2006 23:15 \__
> begin risky.vbs
> <20061115220015.183264e9@ed-desktop>,
> ed <ed@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/08/04/xp
>
> My Windows XP installation has reached its half-life. (You do know
> that Windows has a half-life, don't you? Every installation of
> Windows naturally degrades along a logarithmic curve until it
> becomes annoying, then unbearable, then unusable. Each successive
> revision of Windows has featured a slightly longer half-life. Back
> in the day, Windows 95 would last me about 3 months, while my copy
> of Windows XP has lasted me almost 9. I'm not bitter; when you
> realize that you're measuring on a logarithmic scale, a factor of
> 3 improvement is really quite impressive.)
>
> Gates calls this bitrot and implied at the time all SW / OS's suffer
> from it. He was wrong of course. Only Windows has this feature.
>
Last year I had this argument in alt.html. It's just assumed that Windows has
a shelf life of 6 months. Then, it needs to be reinstalled (from its
'skinny' base package, which made this laborious). Imagine installing Linux
every 6 months... only to find out that it comes with vi as an editor and
tuxpaint as a graphical toolkit... now, the secret recipe involves getting
some protective software within 5 minutes... or be possessed by somebody
else.
Best wishes,
Roy
PS - Ta for the pointer, Ed. It was a good laugh.
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