10-09-2020, 06:19 AM
(10-04-2020, 10:27 PM)fitkoh Wrote: I have an old friend who says, quite accurately, that "Windows is the junkyard of the world"Software quality isn't a thing M$$'s Windows is hailed for, for sure, but calling it a 'junkyard'!!.. That's a bit harsh!
The 3 decades (or so) of M$$'s success with its 'Windows' OS is probably due to the fact that the hardware was cheap due to the worldwide competition in manufacturing the IBM-compatible(/clones) PC. This allowed the M$-DOS + Windows 3.x to slowly make their way into the consumer market; but the flood-gate didn't burst till the marketing of Win95 in mid-1990s and WinXP in 2001.
In a sense, M$$'s Windows democratized the access to computing to a large portion of the worldwide population, and for that I will personally for ever be indebted to it. I still remember that the only way I had access to a computer was in our 'Informatics' department back in the 90s... a far cry from what the young generation is experiencing nowadays!
(10-04-2020, 10:27 PM)fitkoh Wrote: In my personal opinion windows isn't much more than a collection of spyware.I would agree with this quote but only if we're talking about Windows 10. Win10 is designed to be a 24/7 US-backed global spyware... Hence why Windows 7 was my last M$$'s OS I've used productively. I did plan the Linux transition the day WinXP becomes obsolete (ie 2014.)
My problem with M$'s products was always the ideology behind it which compels them to code stuff while taking into account the dumbest human-beings on Earth, thing that the other 50% suffers from while using M$'s products... hence the general dumbing down trend due to M$ product usage...