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Dear Mr. Gates: save Vista, open-source it
Dear Mr. Gates: save Vista, open-source it
Devuan Jessie - IceWM - vimperator - no DM
KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid
KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid
The way I see it, the system is too flawed to salvage, short of a complete rewrite. Too many things seem to have access deeper into the system than they should, and fixing the problem isn't so much a matter of writing patches as it is of doing a fundamental redesign of the operating system.
However, that code would be extremely useful in creating a compatibility layer to run legacy Windows applications on a different platform, be it Linux, or something else. I remember reading about a new operating system being developed at MS as a "research" endeavor, code-named Singularity. If MS would do as Apple did with OS X, and move over to a completely new system with something like Wine to provide a transition, then they would solve a great many of their problems.
Of course, I think that upper management as MS will prevent them from properly managing such a transition and that they'll completely bungle things. Again. Or that they'll still cling to their established ways in the face of a changing market and a growing quagmire of spaghetti code.
However, that code would be extremely useful in creating a compatibility layer to run legacy Windows applications on a different platform, be it Linux, or something else. I remember reading about a new operating system being developed at MS as a "research" endeavor, code-named Singularity. If MS would do as Apple did with OS X, and move over to a completely new system with something like Wine to provide a transition, then they would solve a great many of their problems.
Of course, I think that upper management as MS will prevent them from properly managing such a transition and that they'll completely bungle things. Again. Or that they'll still cling to their established ways in the face of a changing market and a growing quagmire of spaghetti code.
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bluesdog
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Ah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, haaaah!I foresee Microsoft bowing to the inevitable and releasing Microsoft Linux in 2010
Hey, look at all those flying pigs!!
Tips & Tricks
Something more to read while waiting
If you obviously have not read THIS, don't expect too much...
*winter bluesdog....*
Something more to read while waiting
If you obviously have not read THIS, don't expect too much...
*winter bluesdog....*
With US29.7 billion in cash and short term investments MS or Vista are not going to disappear in a hurry. Articles like this are just +pagehit crap. Look at the page, 1/2 of it is advertising..
Every cloud has a silver lining, except for the mushroom shaped ones, which have a lining of Strontium 90.
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bluesdog wrote:Ah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, haaaah!I foresee Microsoft bowing to the inevitable and releasing Microsoft Linux in 2010
Hey, look at all those flying pigs!!
Visualize, Describe, Direct (VDD)
Common Operational Picture (COP) --> Common Operational Response (COR) --> Common Operational Effect (COE)
Common Operational Picture (COP) --> Common Operational Response (COR) --> Common Operational Effect (COE)
lol, that seems like a good way to determine how useful a web page is. ill have to start using it.sinical wrote:With US29.7 billion in cash and short term investments MS or Vista are not going to disappear in a hurry. Articles like this are just +pagehit crap. Look at the page, 1/2 of it is advertising..