"In the world of operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista is just a baby. It's just now toddling along on new systems being sold throughout the U.S. And, like a small child being dropped by the stork to new parents, it's available to older desktop PCs via Microsoft's download-to-buy program. Giving early adopters such easy, unfettered access to the somewhat untested OS was a bold move by Microsoft. The company had to know that people like those who work at PC Magazine would be among the first to test-drive this new installation option."
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Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2005-07-06
Windows XP. I used to have to reboot a few times every week. Now I admit I probably do a lot more than most people do, but that was still no excuse. Admittedly, a lot of that was from 3rd party programs, but that can also be laid to MS's door as they either did not produce the software I needed or they did not provide all the information the software developers needed to make their program work properly.
And yes, OS X does make you reboot after some updates, but Windows was making me reboot after almost every update. Even those that should have been trivial. And almost all software installs in Windows want a reboot. Blame that one on the registry.
I also have the occasional reboot in OS X because of flaky behavior, but that is pretty rare. No OS is bullet proof, but with windows you didn't even get a flak vest. :-)
Anyway, I really was having to reboot Windows at least three times a week at the end. It was getting to the point where I was spending as much time maintaining the OS as I was actually doing things with it.
BTW, this is coming via Ubuntu which will shortly be rebooted into PCBSD.
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2005-07-06
"Boot times/system speed for Linux and Mac OS X have increased. Windows has not.":
Let's see, boot OS X or PCBSD once every couple of months at 2 minutes per boot. 12 months divided by 2 times 2 minutes per boot = about 12 minutes per year boot time.
OK, boot Windows three times a week at 1 minute per boot. 3 times per week x 52 weeks per year x 1 minute per boot = 156 minutes per year boot time.
Hey you are right, that is much quicker than the 312 minutes per year I used to spend booting the older versions of Windows.
I wonder why I ever switched to OS X and PCBSD...