Re: Suggestion for newer OS (technical)

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

JimKurth wrote:
Here's a way to efficiently run Windows without any virus or OS system error threat:

What about the idea of building a chipset designed specifically for Windows? Instead of just 1 ROM chip with BIOS on it (that can't be changed), put another ROM chip (or EEPROM) with Windows on it. Then, no virus or anything could infect Windows from working properly. Virus/Spyware/Trojans could only infect non-system files and since windows would be built with Anti-virus software (EEPROM with special codes that only Microsoft or computer-user could find out to update virus software), there wouldn't be a threat anymore. You can't destroy BIOS because of it's engineered place on the chipset. So why not do that with Windows? Instead of selling the software, sell a chip to upgrade, or sell the software that cracks this EEPROM security measure so it can overwrite it with the new upgrades. Aren't we all looking to avoid crashes and having to restart the computer manually and avoid all these terrible virus' and applications designed to ruin Operating Systems? I'd really like to know if something like this is where OS developers are heading or if it's already been tested before. Of course that means Microsoft taking up and buying OEMs to build chipsets specifically for their OS. But really, isn't the majority of people using a Microsoft OS on non-Apple computers?

This is just a suggestion. I think it's better to do this than to always be having new security updates online and automatic windows upgrades. What do you guys/girls think? Just remember... BIOS has never been upgraded. It's been the same since... well, since the 80's (I think).



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