Re: Much Anticipated?
- From: All Things Mopar <nunofyour@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:45:55 -0600
Today NoStop commented courteously on the subject at hand
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 05:06 pm, Mark had this to say in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:
SEATTLE (Reuters) - MS said it plans to delay the consumer
launch of its Windows Vista until January 2007.
And that, gents, reminds me of the ol' song by singer
Lefty Frizell - "Always Late..."
With Microsoft it appears that "always a bridesmaid but
never a bride" holds true. While GNU/Linux streams along
with new versions every 6 months with more and more
powerful options and innovations, Windoze clunks along with
years and years before its next big marketing push.
I have yet to see /anything/ developed by M$ to be state-of-
the-art for innovation. Why do they need to?
Today
it is safe to conclude that anyone still running Windoze is
running the old technology of computers. A technology that
is still using old, insecure and unstable models. To think
that people actually pay for this is the amazing thing.
And, Windoze gets bigger, slower, and buggier at every
release. I think M$ uses a variant of "computers will double
in power at half the price every two years" binary rule to
/assume/ that new users will buy more CPU and more memory just
in time for the latest and greatest bloatware.
I've seen performance for CPU, memory, and disk access go like
this: DOS lightning fast, Win 3.1 not bad, Win 95/98 slower
but still OK, XP slower yet, SP2 like molassis.
Of course, Win 3.1 was written in ordinary C and assembler.
Don't know what XP is written in but Visual C++ wouldn't
suprise me. It used to be that it was possible to optimize
code. Now, the millions of lines of code and huge development
teams preclude any optimization beyond what the compiler does.
Let's see, in 2 years, I'll be able to run a 7-10 GHz CPU,
have 32 gig memory, and a 100,000 rpm HD, so Longhorn ought to
run about the same as my AMD 3700 and 4 gig do today. Sounds
like a plan to me!
Sorry, but for me, Linux is still not ready for prime time on
the desktop. I use my PC to do useful work, not to play with
it, so I don't have the time, energy, or inclination to spend
an entire night rebuilding my system as my nephew does a
couple times a month trying to fix something that went bump in
the night. And, while there's plenty of open source software
to take the place of commercial Windoze apps and utilities,
the major development houses are still eschewing porting their
code to Linux - a varient of the old advertising saying
"nobody gets it until everybody wants it" - meaning, "I won't
port my code until everybody has Linux but mainstream users
won't "buy" Linux until their existing hardware and software
runs".
Oh, well, we each have to float our boats to what suits us.
Have a good one!
--
ATM, aka Jerry
"Whether You Think You CAN Or CAN'T, You're Right." ? Henry
Ford
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