It's Windows ME all over again. I can't wait.
ping!!
Just another article showing the problems Microsoft is having with Vista.
Microsoft's difficulties with Vista don't really count as news anymore. It's routine at this point. The sun comes up, the paper's out in the driveway, Microsoft encounters another hurdle with Vista.
Yep...
A simple Google search yields links to copies of Vista--and it hasn't even been released to the general public yet.
MS certainly is betting the farm on Vista, and with stuff like this, I really believe it's going to be a flop.
...and it's not even Patch Tuesday!
Too bad they can't get security patches out that fast.
I'll just let others test it first. :)
I waited until 2 years after XP was released before I got it.
I wonder when people are going to finally have enough of this and switch to Linux. I've been playing around with the latest builds of fedora and debian, and I can do EVERYTHING in those OSs that I can do in Windows and more.
The only reason I keep windows on my computers is because the wife has resisted Linux, and my kids play games in Windows. However, the other day I caught my wife using Linux, browsing her fav websites. That's a start. When I pointed out what she was doing she downplayed it, saying she didn't want to boot into windows.
That's an insult to WinME!
PIRACY: A GROWING PROBLEM WITH LINKS TO ORGANIZED CRIME AND TERRORISM
http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju85643.000/hju85643_0.htm
This is further evidence that the sort of "strap on programming" that is popular with American companies these days is doomed to failure. By this I mean the sort of "hack and whack" style where companies bolt things together, never refactor, and generally do whatever the minimum is to make it work. I lump outsourcing in with this trend.
The existing Windows architecture is not modular and does not lend itself to independent development teams. Because of this, as they had to scale the development operation up, they ran into problems even producing a stable build. Their answer to this was to implement draconian code check-in rules and procedure that slowed the process down even more. What they should have done instead was to throw the existing code base out, start afresh, and then build a compatibility layer on top to support all the existing code -- just like Apple has done twice now and even Microsoft has done with the WoW technology first appearing Windows NT.
Microsoft has plenty of very innovative and quality products outside of the Windows group. They are also a pleasure to deal with compare to arrogant and pushy vendors like Apple and IBM. I for one hope that they can learn a lesson from this and produce a quality operating system in the future.