Posted on 04/06/2008 5:31:58 AM PDT by Notary Sojac
I love my W2K. Compared to many OS's it's frigging bullet-proof.
I find the best Windows XP security measure is to boot up without admin privileges, and to do all my program installs and internet activity inside a VirtualBox VM.
Roger that. Win2000 really is the best thing Microsoft ever released.
Yes and no. Sure on the one hand the machines an OS was “designed” for give a fairer comparison, but real world usage is on flat machines. You’re going to buy a machine with a set of statistics and you’re going to want the most out of that machine, so comparing the two on identical hardware is reasonable. And they did make the machine better than MS says is the minimum for Vista, so it’s not like they cut it’s knees out from under it.
I agree with you about Linux. It is great for servers, but it needs years of labor and billions of dollars invested in R&D before it will be ready as a mainstream consumer operating system. A company like Dell or Google or IBM could make the level of investment that Desktop Linux requires to make it a decent product, but so far they've shown no willingness to do so.
In my opinion, for the foreseeable future, the best OS for most computer users is Mac OS X.
The BASIC interpreter Microsoft released in 1978 was truly amazing, with hand-tuned machine language code designed by Bill Gates himself - but it's been downhill since then in terms of code quality.
(not a Google OS, but it looks like it's trying to be one)
>> we need somebody like Google to get into the OS market.
> (not a Google OS, but it looks like it’s trying to be one)
“gOS is developed by Good OS LLC out of Los Angeles. It’s based on Ubuntu Linux 7.10 and runs the Enlightenment E17 interface instead of KDE or Gnome. Despite not being created by Google, the focus of gOS is Google’s online applications such as GMail, Google News, Google Maps, Google Calendar, YouTube, etc. It’s a neat concept for a Linux distribution, but how practical is it? We’ll find out in this review.”
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,2219310,00.asp
Google hasn’t sent them a Cease and Desist, so one might
conclude that the big G hasn’t any immediate plans for
a Google o.s.
I had the same thought just last night while watching a program on how Google started, etc.
I thought, "When Google decides to get into the OS business, it could be the move that eventually cripples Microsoft."
It's common knowledge that Vista has to have 2gb of ram as a sort of a floor. Memory is cheap enough now that a claim of something like this to be a reasonable test is BS.
I don't think you need a miracle just a better product that is produced by thinking and hard work.
If that were the case, Xerox and Novell would both be market leaders in the computer industry. Sorry to burst your bubble, but it all boils down to marketing, pricing, and getting the product into the collective minds of those who make the purchasing decisions.
Unfortunately the quality of the product (unless it's completely unusable) doesn't really matter all that much.
Mark
Walmart If i remember correctly tried selling very low cost linux machines at $200 each! http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1108/
Problem is they didn’t sell well so Walmart pulled them : http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/wal-mart-is-pulling-plug-on-in-store-gpc-experiment/. If Linux was better ( had all plug and play drivers etc.) then it would unseat microsoft and the fact that walmart was selling LInux PCs at $200 a pop could have provided the push Linux needed to unseat Microsoft. Linux is just too hard to use for the average joe. FYI Wal-Mart is still selling these $200 linux machines online but not in their stores. So an average Joe would rather pay $700 for a Microsoft machine that is easier to use than a $200 Linux machine that they find difficult to use. So Microsoft here still provides the better product.
Firefox however does seem to making headway against Internet Explorer. Again a better product unseating a Microsoft product.
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