Star 'Windows Vista Beta 2 Plagued by Bugs'
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 23rd Aug 2006 17:53 UTC
Windows "I have been testing Microsoft operating systems since Windows 95, and this is the buggiest OS I've seen this late in development," says Joe Wilcox, an analyst with Jupiter Research. "Look at the older operating systems, and by Beta 2 there is a stable foundation on which the [independent software vendors] can build. Right now, Vista is like a ship on stormy seas."
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Ookaze
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2005-11-14

OK. So since then, Windows went from Win3.0 to XP SP2. That is, Windows went from a 16bit, single user, cooperative multitasking, shared memory for all OS and apps; to a 32 bit, multiuser, pre-emptive multitasking, separate address space for OS and each app OS. Windows also saw vast improvement in the file sytem, vast improvement in graphics/sound capabilities, added an object model allowing objects of apps to be embedded into documents of other apps, .NET framework, etc.

In the meantime, Linux went from Linux to Linux + GNOME/KDE (UI's totally ripped off from Windows, BTW).

Tell me you can't think right or you're clueless, please.
You mean Linux + GNOME/KDE means : SMP, works on Sparc/ARM/PPC/Cell,..., went to 64 bits, hot swap CPU/PCI/..., change kernel without reboot, support buggy ACPI, embedded features, cluster and NUMA features, several FS support, swappable IO and process schedulers, true plug and play USB (the half PnP support being the one that forces IHV to put red tapes on their hardware so that you don't plug them right away), advanced security features, faster IO, better process schedulers, good scaling to 1024 CPU and to 64 CPU by default, ...

Which has seen the greater improvement? It's pretty obvious

Yeah, pretty obvious.

Edited 2006-08-24 15:04

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