Les Mikesell wrote:
On 2/11/2011 9:58 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Be careful with saying such things. A lot can be said about Windows as an operating system and Microsoft as a company. But be very careful
about
Yes, there can, and has been, a lot said. A *LOT* of it has not been positive (at least since WinDoze 95). I can go on for a while, though it's OT, as to their *lousy* design decisions, and then there's all the lawsuits that they lost, where they paid to cut out competetors.
But those have next to nothing to do with their current products. If
They have *everything* to do. Look, I *said* this is OT, but since you insist, the overwhelmingly *bad* design decision was to put the GUI into ring 0, instead of the way Windows 3, and X on *Nix, and *everybody* else did, resulting in a GUI error bringing down the *entire* system. <snip>
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