Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 23rd Mar 2008 23:04 UTC
"When Windows 7 launches sometime after the start of 2010, the desktop OS will be Microsoft's most 'modular' yet. Having never really been comfortable with the idea of a single, monolithic desktop OS offering, Microsoft has offered multiple desktop OSes in the marketplace ever since the days of Windows NT 3.1, with completely different code bases until they were unified in Windows 2000. Unification isn't necessarily a good thing, however; Windows Vista is a sprawling, complex OS. A singular yet highly modular OS could give Microsoft the best of all possible worlds: OSes that can be highly customized for deployment but developed monolithically. One modular OS to rule them all, let's say."
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RE[2]: One more nail in Vista's coffin
by Stephen! on Mon 24th Mar 2008 01:09
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RE[3]: One more nail in Vista's coffin
by raver31 on Mon 24th Mar 2008 01:10
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RE[3]: One more nail in Vista's coffin
by johndaly on Mon 24th Mar 2008 01:28
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Well now you're just nitpicking. Yes, I mean Linux distributions but I won't get into the habit of saying tings such as "Gnome or KDE based GNU/Linux distributions," its just much to long. I say Linux out of convenience, like every other normal person too.
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RE[3]: One more nail in Vista's coffin
by unoengborg on Mon 24th Mar 2008 04:21
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"Linux, it has a long history of not paying enough attention to the desktop details"
This is changeing rapidly, I did some testing of Linux distros last weak. Some of them offerd the best user experience I have seen in a long time. Espesially OpenSuse 10.3 was very impressing.
I also looked a little on beta versions to get an idea of where things are heading, and one thing is clear GNU/Linux in one or two years time will be nothing like what we see today. Many distros experiment with ways to boot faster, to get fine grainded management policys, another thing is significanlty improved connectivity with other systems through the new gvfs.
On top of that there are projects like freeIPA (a sort of AD for Linux) that will make Linux easy to manage. I'm sort of surprised that this hasn't happened a long time ago, as all of the tools behind freeIPA has been around for years.
Then there is KDE4, but even though they have made a lot of progress lately it will probably not be ready for Joe Users desktop in time to have much impact on the next version of windows sales. The currently released versions is more like impressing developer previews than things users actually would like to use for real work.
However, in the long run KDE4 could be a very serious threat to windows as it through its cross platformness of its framework can atack windows in it home yard.
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Yes, there is definitely a good possibility for Linux and Mac to steal some desktop market share. But thats probably not going to happen. Macs are too expensive, especially if most people buy cheap crap rather then spend the extra 100 euros for something good. And Linux, it has a long history of not paying enough attention to the desktop details, ultimately putting average users off.
But then again Microsoft is giving people lots of reasons to switch.
XP and Vista each came with a new interface, forcing people to relearn things they already know.
Vista 64 needs signed drivers, this is expensive and I blame it for the lack of 64bit drivers.
People don't like or understand UAC.
Backward compatibility in Vista isn't all that good.
Talk of turning windows into a subscription based operating systems makes people uneasy. We've heard it before with XP. People and Businesses didn't like it.
And so on.
But back to the article, whats up with the "modular operating system concept" patent? I don't see how this is different from how Linux works. Just because people have to pay for the extra modules doesn't make it a new idea and it shouldn't be patentable!