Linked by John O'Sullivan on Fri 17th Oct 2003 17:48 UTC
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." Bill Gates, 1981. "64 bit is coming to desktops,there is no doubt about that, But apart from Photoshop, I can't think of desktop applications where you would need more than 4 gigabytes of physical memory, which is what you have to have in order to benefit from this technology." It seems to me that by the time it ships, Longhorn will need 4 gigs of RAM.
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"He also told reporters that windows patches faster than linux.
Linux usally has patches in hours"
With no regression or integration testing, and often being updated several times within the time of the initial update.
Also, the patches take more time to be integrated into the major distributions which often don't include all released updates in new versions.
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From the article:
"The proposition that MS can go three plus years without an iteration to Windows is inconsistent with their past history. The only time its happened before was between 2.0 and 3.0."
This also occurred from NT 4 to Windows 2000 as shown in the table in the article.