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Originally posted by mattisdada
Windows 7, needs to be a brand new platform. I dont care if we will have combatability problems! I just want a new stable platform. We will deal with it......
Well, most people do want compatibility (including 3rd party companies), and there lays the biggest 'problem'. MS lives on compatibility and it was, is, and will be the road they follow. That is one of the things what makes MS being used by most people compared to other platforms....
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Originally posted by mattisdada
Windows is good for a singular reason, its 3rd party support. Most other OS's you just cant find the range of software you can for Windows, you can do practicly anything on Windows, but your limited far more on other OS's.
And that is exactly the reason why developping stuff (especially an OS) is so difficult. Many people (bashers) don't even have the slightest clue about how much work and how much problems there can be when making something like Windows which needs to run on the biggest variaty of hardware and needs to support most of the hardware and software which exists in the world without breaking anything....
And because it is so huge and complicated, and because more people use it than anything else, there are of course more bugs found, more stuff which does break, more virusses (because you can infect more people because more people use it), etc.... This hasn't got much todo with MS being MS. It has todo with the wide userbase and massive software.
To give an extreme example of how simple it is: If I would wrote my own OS, of course there aren't going to be any holes in it, and of course I wouldn't have any virusses and its compatibility would be great (since I alone decides and knows what I use or not), and bug fixes or updates would be instant, all because I would be the only one using it....
for Svip: compare that to Apple, Apple doesn't have such wide variaty of software, and their PCs are all the same too with not too much different hardware (well, it used to be).
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Originally posted by mattisdada
So everything has its use
aye
Oh, and an inside MVP thingie (well, actually not a secret since you can read it in public too, but still 
): At MS they know damn well that Vista isn't what it was supposed to be... To quote Steve Ballmer when he was very enthiousiastically summing up some stuff MS accomplished in the last year, in his keynotes speech at the MVP summit: "Then there's Vista, a work ermmm (small but ackward pause)... in progress... (at this point 1500 MVPs laughed and applauded)..." And this is so with a lot of stuff, they aren't ignorant (although it often seems so, true)
EDIT: Oh, PS, aNILEator, I didn't meant 'platform' as in 'OS', I meant something different. But I can't find the right word or right stuff to explain it properly...
10 minutes
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