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I don't disagree with you, but this is the exact argument I've heard with every Microsoft OS since windows 2000 (and no doubt it was made before then, too).
by polshaw 14y ago
I don't disagree with you, but this is the exact argument I've heard with every Microsoft OS since windows 2000 (and no doubt it was made before then, too).
- malkia 14y agoThis time around though 7 is unbeatable. It just works. Okay it does (and never was) working as I wanted to be - much like linux, osx, etc. but aside from mine developer's perspective it just works for the rest of the stuff. 7 in terms of stability perception is like XP - I still have XP on my Mac Book dual-camped partition. And we had real problems with Vista - rendering, certain apps not working, slowness overall.
- rlu 14y agoIIRC there's some genuine awesome improvements for Win8. For example, file copying from a share/network is immensely better. I do this at work all the time.
- rbanffy 14y ago> file copying from a share/network is immensely better How can something like that have room for improvement? Copying a file from one place to another is and has been a solved problem for decades now.
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- jpxxx 14y ago:) Discussing ever-changing authentication schemes alone could (and does) fill a book. Then protocol changes. Discovery changes. UI changes. Better feedback on copy/delete performance. Pause/resume. Syncing and replication schemes. Performance tweaks. Metadata preservation. Filesystem specific concerns. And this is all before you step outside of the Windows world.
- rbanffy 14y agoOK, but once you start your copy process, it should be straightforward.
- jpxxx 14y agoWhat happens if the stream is interrupted? How long do you wait for it to start? When do you tell the user? What do you tell the user? What options do you give them? Do they even care? What if the disk you're writing to disappears? What if you're doing multiple files but only one of them fails? What if power cuts in the middle of a transfer? What if the destination directory gets renamed? What if the destination volume gets renamed? What if the write speed goes into a hole because the SSD decided now was a good time to start page compaction but the inbound data keeps piling up? What happens if the metadata doesn't come over correctly or is missing? When do you submit the arriving file for indexing? When do you submit the arriving file for security scanning? Nothing is straightforward in software. It takes a lot of work to make it look easy.
- rbanffy 14y agoShouldn't all these problems be dealt with at the filesystem level? I mean, if your filesystem browser needs to be aware of file indexing and anti-malware, you are doing it very wrong.
- regularfry 14y agoHasn't it been artificially slow since Vista?
- lmm 14y ago2000 was a real leap forward. Everything since wasn't. I'd still be running windows 2000 if it ran on my hardware (and my software ran on it). I've never directly paid for a post-2000 version of windows, only got it on new hardware.