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That one little word is what will kill Micro$oft. There is only so much the human mind can process. Rather than go for many, simple, effecient solutions, each doing exactly one well-defined task extremely well and working together, they traditionally opt for the extremely complex overkill one. There are too many interdependencies, too tight a coupling.
Given human limitation, wheel-reinvention is inevtiable. Ever wonder why an activity as simple as booting (i.e. simply moving data from disk to RAM and then calling an entry point) takes over a minute from power-on to desktop/drive not spinning? Given machines that run, not at MHz, but GHz!?
I frequently spend more time waiting for features I don't even want in the first place to "do their thing", and solving susequent problems created by these unwanted features, than getting productive use out of my machine.
In their pride that makes no allowance for the reality of human error, they've created an unmaintainable Frankenstein. The machine is the master, in their view. The user is the servant.
2.5 GB DVD... I recall it needing like 6GB of disk space... I like my XP... I am currently using Ubuntu for my desktop at work (my own choice) and XP on my work laptop. I really am liking Ubuntu... So many free programs it is unbelievable...
thats what ya call FUD my boy. :)