And it makes more money for other software publishers too: your old
computer quits, you buy a new one with the latest and greatest version
of Windozzze, then find that your original version of your favorite app
will not run, and you have to buy the "upgrade" -- which may even have
had some of your favorite features removed.
Alan NV8A
On 04/21/09 09:35 pm I wrote:
And it makes more money for the manufacturers of the hardware: every
"upgrade" of Micro$$$oft software requires more disk space, more memory
and a faster CPU. It's an incestuous relationship.
Well, it makes Micro$oft a lot more money!
But there is twice as much OS code in Vista over XP..
You make my point for me. My point is that Vista does
nothing substantive over and above XP yet has twice as much
code. The basic job of the OS has not changed at all. It
provides a run-time environment for programs. It still does
the same task scheduling, memory management, I/O, etc. The
job hasn't changed one iota. For our purposes it does
nothing different. So what does all that extra code actually
do? Make the screen look cooler when you aren't doing
anything?
But then, XP didn't do anything more than Win2K did
either.
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