04-22-2009, 01:12 PM
Microsoft has played a smart business game, in that it's hard to get away from Windows and it's nearly impossible to compete with it. As soon as you realize all the things you CAN'T do with an alternate OS, you go back to Windows.
The problem I have is that they've been getting sloppy. There is so much weird shit bundled into Windows now and a fair amount of performance is being sacrificed for weird features that you, as a home user, will never want or likely even know about.
Computer power doubles every 18 months and Microsoft Windows gets twice as slow and twice as big every 18 months -- that's my theory. I think they've really lost sight of the goal of Windows. I don't think they have one anymore. Their goal is that of a software company stuck in maintenance mode: just keep shoveling in features and fixing bugs and growing the code with no real long term plan, until you reach the point where hardly anyone alive fully understands the product or can tell you what it's doing right at this moment.
They need to step back and redesign it. Keep the "Crazy Enterprise Version, Now With Extra Shit" that takes 5 minutes to boot up and settle down because it's starting up 50 different services, but also release the "Home" edition that basically does DirectX, networking and supports only basic NTFS features.
They need to go back and think about what they NEED to do and create a version of Windows that slim and fast.
I would seriously switch to Mac or Unix if I could play all the games on it.
The problem I have is that they've been getting sloppy. There is so much weird shit bundled into Windows now and a fair amount of performance is being sacrificed for weird features that you, as a home user, will never want or likely even know about.
Computer power doubles every 18 months and Microsoft Windows gets twice as slow and twice as big every 18 months -- that's my theory. I think they've really lost sight of the goal of Windows. I don't think they have one anymore. Their goal is that of a software company stuck in maintenance mode: just keep shoveling in features and fixing bugs and growing the code with no real long term plan, until you reach the point where hardly anyone alive fully understands the product or can tell you what it's doing right at this moment.
They need to step back and redesign it. Keep the "Crazy Enterprise Version, Now With Extra Shit" that takes 5 minutes to boot up and settle down because it's starting up 50 different services, but also release the "Home" edition that basically does DirectX, networking and supports only basic NTFS features.
They need to go back and think about what they NEED to do and create a version of Windows that slim and fast.
I would seriously switch to Mac or Unix if I could play all the games on it.