It seems like I'm always waiting for those pesky updates to download and install. Even though they are automatic they still slow your internet connection down. About Linux, I don't know about that since I'm not using currently using it.
Need some fresh air, look here: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14130313 http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/dailyarchives.jhtml?articleId=60400997
.. and of course all of this is in violation of the license agreements ... the MSDN subscriptions are for developing software within your own company, not giving away licenses to unrelated, non-employees. The MSDN subscriptions are expensive and not as useful and flexible as they once were: I view them as just another channel for $soft to extract $ from our company. Funny, Linux has no such "charges" for development and ALL source code is provided.
Lets get one thing straight. It isn't Windows Longhorn. It is Windows Vista. It looks and sounds like a smell. I say that smell is BS. Google is making their own Operating System anyways. They won't admit it, but they certainly haven't denied it. Microsoft is going down my friends, finally.
www.thisweekintech.com Check out episode 19. Talking about Windows Vista and how horrible it really is. Patrick Norton works for PC World and gives insight to the review of the beta next week in PC World. Windows is really done for people, if google comes out with an OS within the next 2 or 3 years, they could seriously take out Microsoft.
Dunno about google. Not impossible and interesting. Don't forget that the astonishing rise of google is mainly due to their crafty usage of modern programming technology: PYTHON. Python would not do for 100% of the OS code, but might for about 99%. Fallback on C/C++ is particularly easy in Python. Another point is the Open Software aspect. Masses of people come to realize every day that proprietary software for things like OS are completely nutty. Imagine the whole world going to depend on and milked by a monopolist deity like M$? It seems clear now that the fable spread by the monopolists on open software problems doesn't hold up at all. BG may have a few 100 really 'good' programmers. The world over there are 10,000s 'good' ones participating in open software. Ever tried to get a bug sorted out in a piece of proprietary software? Oh Boy! I never, never, never got a timely answer from them OS monopolists. In fact I always ended up to pass them along the secrets of my workaround I had to come up with and that they didn't seem to know about yet. As a compaison, ever stuck your nose into a linux or python forum? Many exist, simply amazing. (Only their chit-chats don't seem to be as developed yet as ET's ) Last observation. In OS, when change comes, it comes fast and to most, unexpectedly. For many, it's often a devastating experience. Do you remember the mid-1990's with IBM, SUN, DEC sitting on lill' BG'S back? DEC, where are you? SUN, where are you going right now? As always IBM is shining the way (or some kind of a way). Keep your powder dry girls & boys. Hasta la Vista. nononsense
I agree. In the past I raved on about IBM's "automated support" for HW drivers, patches etc. I was looking today and it has become the pits! Cannot find anything anymore! Must have had to do with the sale of IBM PC division to the Chinese or has it to do with the acquisition of PWC? (I used to work for PWC and do not get me started on THAT outfit, sh$%$#@!!s :-( ) I just had my screen replaced and although it is the same resolution and a new screen it is of an obvious inferior quality (not as half as bright and yellowish to boot). Not happy and definitely there won't be coming any more IBM's to my place. Shame, I used to regard them as being the top of the bunch. Another crowd gone to the dogs. Sherlock
Maybe not yet, but I'm pretty confident that the future of this Python Interpreter/compiler/LLVM project, could possibly give software tech a serious run for the future of language translation. It'll be about a year before we really know though. I'm keeping track of this very interesting project, and have alot of respect for the developers.
prt, You are probably 100% right on this. There may be some confusion as to their possible participation in pushing linux into additional trends. Example: the ZEN or (XEN?) open source virtualization & clustering project by Novell, HP, AMD and Intel. Dunno much about this yet, I admit. PS. on stacks: http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/45717.html PS. on current circus: http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/08/29/1443204.shtml