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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"Start Over, is my advice. They are behind OS X/bundled OS X apps. BEHIND. They don't offer much more than linux (except the apps - but customers understandbly don't think they should just pay MS rent because windows has the apps. "
I really don't see where OS X is far better than Windows. Frankly, the GUI is shiny, but I was quite dispointed by all that OS X thing. It is a good OS, sure, but not really a revolution. More, a lot of mac users hate OS X. I was surprised by that fact, but most music users I know who like mac hate OS X. The apps are not here, or buggy ( Digital perfourmer 4). Almost nobody use Mac OS X for pro audio ! Apple path is not possible for microsoft, beacause of their marketshare. They have basically the same problem than Intel with their x386 line : outdated, very difficult to enhance, for compatibility reasons.
About the start over : NT has a GOOD basis. But there are some horrible flaws, like an horrible registry, not good security (implementation, not in design), etc... A late realease date for longhorn can have two reasons, for me : DRM thing ( yuck) or a totally new super set of API/ systems on the relatively good kernel.
My dream ? A NT kernel, a good documented and not binary registry, no native win32 anymore, just a software emulation when you need it, all system calls available to anyone, double licensing for sdk for open source developement like QT and so ! Possible ? Hardly, but it is just a dream