Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 12th Dec 2008 23:44 UTC, submitted by google_ninja
I'm sure you're all still (sadly) familiar with the recent 'debate' I had with InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy, which detailed a lot of silly things. The seed of that discussion was planted with Kennedy's first article which, among other things, claimed that Windows 7 performed similarly to Windows Vista (meaning, slower than XP). Leaving the thread count discussion behind, Kennedy did include a benchmark which showed that Windows 7 performed similar to Windows Vista. There's a new benchmark out now, comparing a slightly more recent build of Windows 7 to Vista RTM/SP1 and XP SP3, and in these tests, Windows 7 blows all of those out of the water.
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The problem with worrying about user accounts in windows is its easy to look back in history and say... gosh... how could they design this crap. However, back when it was being designed, it probably made sense. The improvements they made on it and backwards compatibility probably made sense too. Heck, their changes and move to Vista UAC is also evolutionary and make sense.
The best example we have to day is the WWW. It started out as HTML the simple markup language. Then it morphed into some screwed up web applications using AJAX. Toss in some screwed up ActiveX and other attempts in there as well. Looking back now, the whole AJAX/HTML structure is mentally ill. No one would design something like that. If you were going to design it today, you would probably think of something like MS Silverlight or Adobe Flash. Yet, can we just throw out the entire WWW and demand everything be redone in Silverlight or Flash? No. So we deal with it.
It's the nature of development. It's a jungle out there and always will be. Somehow we get by with all the hiccups.