__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Thursday 29 March 2007 21:07 \__
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Living With Vista: First 30 Days
>>
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>>| And regardless of their overall verdict, a majority--some 61
>>| percent--reported at least one hiccup getting Vista to work with their
>>| existing hardware or software. After more than five years in the making,
>>| Vista offers much promise but still has many problems to resolve.
>> `----
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>> http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,129375/printable.html
>>
>
> Wow, this really is some disaster, isn't it? Sooner or later, the
> quality of Linux's hardware support would reveal itself to the masses,
> and Vista is probably the first time when significant numbers of people
> are doing an upgrade themselves. Probably a lot of them have heard
> about all these linux people who install their own operating systems, or
> use liveCDs, and expect that the Windows experience will be similarly
> simple. How disappointing it must be to find that having spent such
> huge sums of money, the product they receive is no better than the free
> Linux, and is less good at supporting their existing hardware and
> software.
>
> Again, Microsoft have years of catching up to do with respect to
> installation technology, hardware detection, package management,
> loose-coupling, security, memory management, filesystem support,
> hardware support... I wonder how foolish the folk at Microsoft are now
> feeling, with no major vendors willing to commit the effort required to
> write yet another generation of drivers, only to be blamed for the
> instability of Windows when things go wrong.
>
> Problem: System instability
> Cause: 3rd-party driver!
>
> ... it must be cr*p writing drivers if you work for a hardware vendor -
> constantly getting the blame for Microsoft's design cock-ups. Frankly,
> I'd rather write linux drivers - at least you get to debug them
> properly, and work on a stable whole. And people help you.
Linux is like the large collection of gloves that fit many types of hands.
Manufacturers have always designed their products for a single pair of
hands. Suddenly, these hands have grown larger. The ring no longer fits that
finger and the gloves won't fit, no matter how hard you try (or how many
month you spend reengineering or generalising the code). Linux handles
'moving goalposts' (think of the strategy design pattern). Linux needn't
rely on hands that fit a single glove.
Which system would be able to create a rational database-based filesystem?
That which is loosely integrated with a filesystem or that which uses
interfaces to facilitate choice? No wonder Linux got its WinFS equivalent
last year (Palm/ALP) while Microsoft dropped this vapourware.
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