I don't understand what is "stupid" about it from a UI experience. The parts of Windows I hate most are hangs and crashes, but those two things are usually causes by non-MS software, although I know there are bugs in the kernel that sometime slow things down.
Anyone here ever read Mark Russinovch's book "Windows Internals"? Windows is a incredibly complex system that allows input from millions of different places and strives to keep them straight so you don't have a bad experience, but these things do happen on occasion. I work in the Windows source code every day, and I will tell you that it's insane and huge, much more difficult to understand than anything I ever saw as a web dev. Eventually, everything translates into a c function which then calls into the kernel. >G Money <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> If a person can't appreciate the Windows operating system as a paragon of >> programming achievement...then that person aint a programmer. >> > >But if art don't sell then a poor artist you make. Ask a blogger. > >There are lots of OS's and many of them are all paragons of >programming achievement, but that doesn't make them good tools for >modern business. > >I'm not making a judgment of Microsoft's code-base from an engineering >or art perspective, but I am saying that it's completely stupid from a >user interface perspective. I can also say that as an employee of a >fortune 25 company I'm glad we're experimenting with alternatives and >I wouldn't be surprised if Windows is gone (in majority) in 3 years. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:338890 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
