Oliver Wong wrote:
>
> "Peter KÃhlmann" <peter.koehlmann@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:eeri81$p06$00$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Oliver Wong wrote:
>>
>>> So do you disagree that these features are interesting? Do you think
>>> IPv6 or symbolic links are uninteresting? Do you ever use symbolic links
>>> on your machine? I suspect that you do. Even if you didn't know anything
>>> about Linux, just a basic install of Linux probably automatically
>>> creates symbolic links somewhere on your disk, right? So if nothing
>>> else, they are
>>> at least *useful*.
>>>
>>
>> I think those features are *extremely* uninteresting in a windows product
>
> So in other words, these features would be interesting to you if they
> appeared in a non-Windows product (e.g. Linux), but due to the fact that
> they appear in a Windows product, you find them "*extremely*
> uninteresting". I rest my case about anti-Microsoft bias.
>
No. They would have been interesting if MS had added them (one by one, if
need be) to XP. In the meantime they could have written something which is
not a steaming pile of horse manure, which now will probably never see the
light
But no, MS decided to milk its customers again, and again, and again, and
now with a product which by all counts is in its early alpha-stage
Do you honestly believe that Vista will be anything near the bug-count of XP
as it is today? If you really believe that, I've got a bridge for you, just
slightly used
>>
>> You see, I've got all of those which might interest me since quite some
>> time, as I use linux. MS is simply years behind with the really
>> interesting
>> stuff
>> MS could have added them just as easily in a SP3 to XP.
>
> Do you honestly believe they could have added a completely rewritten
> user-space driver framework in an SP3 to XP?
>
> - Oliver
If they could not, their code base is even worse than imagined. And in my
opinion it can't be much worse. But, if you think they could not, due to
their total incompetance, be my guest
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