news.com.com— Given that the next version of Windows is more than two years late, you'd expect that people would be calling for Microsoft to get its act together and release it soon as possible. Not so.
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lucasgarsha,Are you serious? When you learn more about Managed DirectX please reply back, its not a simple wrapper, and in no way is it similar to using Python to do game scripting. You havent seen any .NET applications? Wow, you must not venture to far into the internet then, good lord! BugLight, DasBlog are a couple high profile ones that come to mind! Besides .NET isnt only Web Applications as you infer to in your argument. Anti Win32? For one those API's are unsafe, second Win32 production time is about 1/8th of that of Managed Code, third the Framework provided does most of the mundane tasks you would have to write from scratch for you, so while your being a little hack hacking away at code for months I could have a ready, tested, fast, secure, reliable application for you in no time!Do you even know what business is all about? Theres this stuff called money, and theres this sane that goes something like "time is money". They could care less about your little enthusiast perks with using Python, all they care about is a 2 month turnaround or your terminated!You are so incoherently wrong I wonder if you have even graduated high school yet, I mean seriously how old are you? I hope for god sake you arent a developer cause I sure as hell dont want you working for me!
..."Many of these questions of thinking that complexity grows either linearly or exponentially with the code base size will essentially be dealt with," (Craig Mundie)That's NOT what they've shown in the past! Why can Linux do in much smaller footprint and on lesser hardware what takes Microsoft 10 times the space and horsepower - to do the same task, and offer the same features?Compare Microsoft's minimum requirements for Aero, vs Linux's XGL. which is Linux's version of basically the SAME thing. How does MS explain the outrageous system requirements?
I agree, but Linux's XGL is also incredibly buggy, and very very difficult to install. There is a reason why it is still faaaar from being standard on many distros.
This is good for Linux.You've heard how much this is costing Microsoft. Everybody's waiting for this. Their shareholders are waiting. The analysts are waiting. They have to cut forcasts by hundreds of millions of dollars every time there is another significant delay.In the mean time, Apple is gaining market share. Ubuntu is *this close* to making it big. It already has within the digg community; I can't speak for everyone, but I feel a responsibility to share Ubuntu with as many people as possible. I've shown people Compiz/Xgl, and they all say "I thought Linux was for geeks, but that's f***ing cool!"Microsoft is ALWAYS going to have bugs and ALWAYS going to have vulnerabilities. It's the most used OS in the world. There are always going to be people who pry it open. It doesn't matter how much longer they take. They'll work out all of the major bugs, and that's about it. That's all they can do unless they follow an open source model, where they will STILL have security issues, but they will get fixed, and will get fixed QUICKLY.Consider this: what if they delay it for so long that people forget about it?And another thing, when has the price of Windows ever dropped? Windows 2000 is still too expensive!
magadassAug 2, 2006
lucasgarsha,Are you serious? When you learn more about Managed DirectX please reply back, its not a simple wrapper, and in no way is it similar to using Python to do game scripting. You havent seen any .NET applications? Wow, you must not venture to far into the internet then, good lord! BugLight, DasBlog are a couple high profile ones that come to mind! Besides .NET isnt only Web Applications as you infer to in your argument. Anti Win32? For one those API's are unsafe, second Win32 production time is about 1/8th of that of Managed Code, third the Framework provided does most of the mundane tasks you would have to write from scratch for you, so while your being a little hack hacking away at code for months I could have a ready, tested, fast, secure, reliable application for you in no time!Do you even know what business is all about? Theres this stuff called money, and theres this sane that goes something like "time is money". They could care less about your little enthusiast perks with using Python, all they care about is a 2 month turnaround or your terminated!You are so incoherently wrong I wonder if you have even graduated high school yet, I mean seriously how old are you? I hope for god sake you arent a developer cause I sure as hell dont want you working for me!
smartitguyAug 2, 2006
..."Many of these questions of thinking that complexity grows either linearly or exponentially with the code base size will essentially be dealt with," (Craig Mundie)That's NOT what they've shown in the past! Why can Linux do in much smaller footprint and on lesser hardware what takes Microsoft 10 times the space and horsepower - to do the same task, and offer the same features?Compare Microsoft's minimum requirements for Aero, vs Linux's XGL. which is Linux's version of basically the SAME thing. How does MS explain the outrageous system requirements?
falcon1Aug 2, 2006
I agree, but Linux's XGL is also incredibly buggy, and very very difficult to install. There is a reason why it is still faaaar from being standard on many distros.
Closed AccountAug 2, 2006
This is good for Linux.You've heard how much this is costing Microsoft. Everybody's waiting for this. Their shareholders are waiting. The analysts are waiting. They have to cut forcasts by hundreds of millions of dollars every time there is another significant delay.In the mean time, Apple is gaining market share. Ubuntu is *this close* to making it big. It already has within the digg community; I can't speak for everyone, but I feel a responsibility to share Ubuntu with as many people as possible. I've shown people Compiz/Xgl, and they all say "I thought Linux was for geeks, but that's f***ing cool!"Microsoft is ALWAYS going to have bugs and ALWAYS going to have vulnerabilities. It's the most used OS in the world. There are always going to be people who pry it open. It doesn't matter how much longer they take. They'll work out all of the major bugs, and that's about it. That's all they can do unless they follow an open source model, where they will STILL have security issues, but they will get fixed, and will get fixed QUICKLY.Consider this: what if they delay it for so long that people forget about it?And another thing, when has the price of Windows ever dropped? Windows 2000 is still too expensive!
mattusAug 2, 2006
I don't exactly think that Ubuntu being big in the digg community is a useful barometer of its adoption rate in wider (ie. non-geek) circles...