glumbert

SB, shit don't you have a job?

Tues thru Sat evenings. I sometimes break 30 a hours a week during the busy seasons. So am I the first to "first" 5 in a row backwards???

Maybe, but you didn't stick the landing....

I was sure you like men.

Yes, remember his negro buddies?

I happen to know he's a man of hygiene.

I thought he rode in one of those chairs that are carried by 4 serfs (also known as programmers)

We are not the only ones puzzled over this ad:
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Correction, building any OS would be sufficient, Windows is an intellectual insult, not an operating system.

I want to say that Windows is a OS that is always rushed to market, and I don't want to defend Microsoft. But they have the most complicated OS in the world, that supports a huge hardware base, forward and backward.

Perhaps one has to be a programmer to really comprehend the complexity that Microsoft supports with its family of operating systems.

Apple and others have no such encumbrances, as they write only for their equally proprietary hardware and peripherals (VERY EASY).

I actually think NT and XP have been very good, and I have had no problems with these two at all, but it could be that I have the entire development environment installed, and thus have all the DLL's they make.

And certainly the free firewall, service packs, and updater, have helped the most. The XP SP-2 was practically a re-release of the whole OS.

Microsoft does charge WAY too much for their OS, but if one stays off the Bleeding Edge, then it all works much better.

I'm not even considering purchasing a Vista system yet.

Pod, I don't want to get into an in depth discussion here or start a flame war over it, but Microsoft did invent problems that are not present in any other operating system, i.e. the static registry is a wrong concept trying to solve problems that do not exist if you don't have a rotten core.

As for the argument that Apple has a simpler platform: First of all hardware support is what you have a driver model for, second MacOS runs on two different processor worlds, third there is a lot of 3rd party hardware for Macs.

If you develop USB devices you get a pretty good idea how much Microsoft sucks and there are many other areas where you learn that too.

Bug - "Microsoft did invent problems that are not present in any other operating system"

Oh yes! they sure did. Microsoft does things that are truly odd, but are most likely in their best interest. Besides the registry, there is .Net runtime, and the entire DLL scheme, and the inability to bind libraries into a true standalone executable. From a developer viewpoint it is a freaking nightmare.

But from a average user viewpoint NT and XP have actually been quite good. Not for security though.

Pod, agreed, compared to 98 and Vista they are good. Though I was thinking in a bit more global terms, including Unix (also Linux and the other derivatives), MacOS, BeOS, OS/2, and others. Compared to all those Windows looks pretty bad.