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MS has simply condemned itself

to keep reinventing the wheel over and over. Had they
designed a kernel based on the well known priniciples and
developped it using common sense techniques the mutual
suffering would have been reduced tremenduously.

Looking at the 'OS's MS releases can see that the promissed
features are not there or simply delayed until their next-
best system. MS-DOS / win3.1 are kind of 60's technology
and all their win nt3.51, 4 w2k, wxp, etc. simply add a little
more in terms of features and stability.

Why does it take them so long to improve their main
platform? Either they don't want to work, or they don't
know how to work seriously.

Assuming that they do work hard on their os, we have to
conclde that the design was so bad, without any provision
for growth or changing requirements that they have to
redesign and redevelop over and over the wheel.

Ofcourse MS never cared about the stability or security of
their OS. That OS was the vehicle of distributing their
application s/w. OEMs were forced to provide ms windows
preinstalled or else face serious consequences. MS has also
bolted the application logic within this OS, and their apps
simply run better than others not developed by MS.

The fact remains that ms windows is still a toy os meant for
personal computing. ms windows runs only a small subset
of the workstation server h/w. Only IBM and HP offer x86
ms wndows on up to 16 processors and actually it is not
clear that they do not really support a cluster of 4, 4-way
SMPs. That would make ms windows ruannable to 4 proc.
SMPs only. In the early 2000, MS had serious scalability
issues flatting out at the magic number of 4 processors. As
for the 64-bit version, it still way behind. If it weren't for
HP/Intel, the Itanium ms windows would be still an idea.
And MS plans to release 64-bit windows sometime in the
next couple of years that it could use up to FOUR
processors! Imagine that.

And as now the severe security problems surface how could
bigger organizations rely on ms windows for their mission
critical business?

The basic reasons for the MS missery is the childish design
and development of their platform (put something together
now, make it look sexy and push it to the market). As MS
drooles over the higher end server markets it has to
redesing it and modify it on a large scale. Everyone knows
how hard it is to modify something AFTER it has been
developed, instead of making reasonable provisions for
future growth.

Another importand factor is the fact that appl code is
interspersed within OS code and any weakness of the one
propagates to the other.

Add into the mix the non-existent security and you have a
huge bowl of mess.

What Longhorn promises to be is what NT 4.0 was
supposed to be. Longhorn will have (a) new graphical
engine (big deal !), new file system (WinFS, bigger deal !)
and most likely new desktop colors and icons.... The fact
that technically these differences are very small issues (for
a huge corporation like MS) just convinces me more that
this fine piece of code is an unwieldy monster that people
cannot control anymore....

But the missery was brought on by MS decisions
themsleves.

-m

Posted by: michael-t   Posted on: 03/06/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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