On Thursday 25 October 2001 10:13 pm, you wrote: > <in reply to:> > I realized after I sent that I worded my post poorly. I do believe > MS has an unfair monopoly and probably got there with the help of > some illegal practices. > > But I don't think MS having more knowledge of the workings of > Windows is necessarily unfair. If they use that knowledge to shut > out competition or do clearly malicious things, then that's > definitely a problem. If they use that advantage to create better > programs than what their competition is making, that's fine with > me. > > MS wasn't just handed Windows. Illegal activity aside, it took them > a lot to become the monster they are today. If they're willing to > take that risk, then I see no problems with them gaining some > benefits from the reward. >
> > If that were the case, and forcing everyone to use the API while > they embed everything they write into the OS is acceptable.. > > Then no company other then M$ can write a better app for windows > then M$ > > M$ is adding stuff into the OS all the time to cut our their > competition, thinks like Office2000 and XP, Mediaplayer, Internet > Explorer, and all the new "freebie" thrills you get with XP, can't > be competed with for speed because > regardless of how got the competing app is, it has to use the > windows API and > as such can never compete for speed and integration with M$'s own > apps. > > The result being something like this: > > Why download Mozilla if IE is faster? > Why download Staroffice if Office2000 does it all faster? (apart > from the price > which is sad if its the only factor in Staroffices favour.) > Why download ICQ when MSN messanger is faster? > > Just to play the devil's advocate here. If you agree that the aforementioned Windows applications are only faster because of MS's intimate knowledge of their own APIs, and that the aforementioned applications are still slower, even under Linux. Would it not follow that an open-API version of Windows would have signifcant performance advantages over Linux if you were running something like Mozilla on both platforms? Let's forget about the abhorantly bad memory management and stability for a second. Those are mostly kernel related and have little to do with the discussion over APIs. - John
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