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It's too bad this article is such a troll. I'm sure there are intelligent and useful things to be said about vista; but this article is not where they can be fo
by olefoo 18y ago
It's too bad this article is such a troll. I'm sure there are intelligent and useful things to be said about vista; but this article is not where they can be found.
Vista strikes me as a reasonably good OS crippled by the need to support the entire win32 legacy. It's too bad that Microsoft can't take 2000 of their best programmers and turn them loose on building a new OS that supports .NET and nothing before; as it might be quite worthwhile.
However; Microsoft the company seems to be slipping into the senility phase, thinking that their spot at the top of the pile is a god given right and that they should stay there forever. They seem to have forgotten that it's capitalism, it's dog eat dog; and it's their turn to be a dog's breakfast.
- gills 18y agoSome would argue that Microsoft got to the top of the pile due in no small part to maintaining backward compatibility. By doing so they lower the barriers to upgrading for most of their users, who don't want to reinvest in new versions of applications that can't make the jump.
- Hexstream 18y ago"Some would argue that Microsoft got to the top of the pile due in no small part to maintaining backward compatibility." The most dangerous curses are the transiently useful ones.