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Why Windows Needs to Go Back to Basics
posted by
Thom Holwerda
on Tue 28th Feb 2006 18:15 UTC, submitted by
lord-storm
"Once upon a time, operating systems managed the resources of computers, and that was about it. But after the PC revolution, most software makers started subscribing to the theory that bigger means better.
But does it
?"
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