____/ [H]omer on Wednesday 07 November 2007 02:32 : \____
> Apparently my NOD32 (anti-virus) and Outpost (firewall) subs ended about
> a month ago. I never noticed. Frankly I was just going to let it rot,
> but then I did promise Erik that I'd find something that "impressed me
> about Windows" by the end of the Week, so I decided to bite the bullet
> and protect Microsoft's Swiss Cheese OS for yet another year.
The last version of Windows I've owned was probably the best one too <
http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/11/18/goodbye-laptop/ > (SE), but
Win2K is probably better (rarely every used it on other people's PCs). From
that point onwards, Microsoft seems to have gone towards bloat (the laptop
above had only 32MB of RAM since 1999) and useless junk that evolved to become
Vista, which cannot even cope with 320MB of RAM.
To tell you the truth, what Microsoft shoved into Windows to make it such a Pig
(Allchin's word) is beyond me. They could actually challenge Linux nowadays,
but in technical terms they are behind. At the moment, 'patent terrorism' is
among their drivers for inertia (others include "dumping", fraud, OOXML
briberies for exclusion, Web hijacks, exclusionary OEM contracts, etc).
Microsoft used to have semi-decent software in the days of OS 9 and KDE 2. I
haven't a clue what has happened since and why, but Windows' rivals are surely
bound to capitalise on it. Even Dell's strategist (among many others) says
this. Wait and watch.
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