Re: [NF] Broken Windows

-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, at 12:12 AM, Fletcher Johnson wrote: > Or you might ask them why Visual Studio is only a 32 bit application.... > Yes, it can build 64 bit apps, but they can't figure out how to compile it > as a working 64 bit app. And if they can't fix that in all the time they > have had, how would you expect them to redo windows???? > > Maybe they are hoping we will all move to Linux and run our apps on Azure > instead.... Much less work for them to support... All I know is that they > are doing their best to piss off everyone they can. > > > Fletcher Johnson > FletcherSJohnson@Yahoo.com > LinkedIn.com/in/FletcherJohnson > beknown.com/FletcherJohnson > twitter.com/fletcherJ > twitter.com/svcsug > strava.com/athletes/fletcherjohnson > 408-946-0960 - work > 408-781-2345 - cell > > -----Original Message----- > From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ted Roche > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2018 7:34 AM > To: profox@leafe.com > Subject: Re: [NF] Broken Windows > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 9:28 AM Man-wai Chang changmw@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > Which means Micro$oft might need to rewrite it again? ;) > > > > > Well, they bought DOS, slapped a gui on it, sold that for nearly 20 years, > moving it from 16- to 32-bit, yay Win32s! > > Windows, 2.0, 3.1, 3.1, 3.11, W4Workgroups, W4Tablets, w4Work, Win95, 98, > Millenium > > They teamed up with IBM to write OS/2 later "WARP," using Windows New > Technology with the New Technology File System. > > Then they torpedoed IBM and released it as Windows NT. And that's what we > are running today, Windows NT 3, 3.5, 3.51, 4, 7, Windows Vista, Windows 8, > Windows 10. They've glommed a lot of stuff on top, but it's Windows NT on > NTFS with its lousy security model, patched over with a new domain model > and Policy enforcement, but it's the Registry and LAN Man and the same old > print queue. > > It's tens of millions of lines of code, written mostly by people who don't > work there any more. It's huge, it's heavy, it's buggy. And it runs on > Desktops. And Servers. And not much else. Not smartphones, not lightweight > tables, not the internet. Ignoring Windows CE (which still exists, running > my settop box -*shudder), WindowsPhone, and XBox OS, all speciality > spinoffs. > > Perhaps they should rewrite it. Third time's the charm, or so they > mythology goes within MS. > > Highly recommended: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows for a > refresher on the history. Good overview. > > -- > Ted Roche > Ted Roche & Associates, LLC > http://www.tedroche.com > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server]