Is this just artificially generated outrage? This guy's article is the first negative press I've heard about Windows 7 in a while, aside from minor gripes about upgrade costs and such. Is it like fox news or something? Issue a talking point, then wait for someone to repeat it in public so you can report it as news?Also, anyone got a list of all the times Dvorak has been dead wrong about these things in recent years? Seems like a lot.
The registry is a highly efficient, caching database with a performance-tuned binary persistence format. It's designed to be interfaced with exclusively via the Registry APIs which abstract away the implementation details and allow the underlying architecture to be improved over time or replaced entirely. The design and layout of the registry is what enabled COM, and is in no small part responsible for the success of Windows among developers.Those who complain about it are generally lay people whose knowledge of the registry is limited to cursory experience with the regedit.exe program - something far too many people have been exposed to. Regedit is not the registry, it is an app trying to create a visual / browseable representation of the data stored in it, but it is for debugging purposes only. The registry is for *registration* of components, and doubles as a centrally-managed configuration database for Windows itself. Applications should only use the registry to register shared components or file/protocol associations. An application should be able to be copied around and run without relying on registry entries, assuming all of its dependencies (which may register themselves in, you guessed it, the *registry*) have been installed.
Microsoft, Wake Up and Smell Defeat! MIcrosoft. Your frustration. Our fault.Can these guys do ANYTHING right? 8 years in development, this the best you can do?? lol. No wonder people are leaving Windows for OS X and Linux in droves.
Walt Mossberg can take a hike if he doesn't like wiping his harddrive when he reinstalls an OS. See, he's a Mac fanboy. And you can get away with not reinstalling in Mac because Mac's don't have the registry. But in Windows you should really wipe when you reinstall because of the more complex relationship between the installed app and the OS.
uselesstriviaAug 5, 2009
Is this just artificially generated outrage? This guy's article is the first negative press I've heard about Windows 7 in a while, aside from minor gripes about upgrade costs and such. Is it like fox news or something? Issue a talking point, then wait for someone to repeat it in public so you can report it as news?Also, anyone got a list of all the times Dvorak has been dead wrong about these things in recent years? Seems like a lot.
mrsurfboardAug 6, 2009
Dvorak knows and has been writing about tech for decades. What are your credentials?
brandonliveAug 6, 2009
The registry is a highly efficient, caching database with a performance-tuned binary persistence format. It's designed to be interfaced with exclusively via the Registry APIs which abstract away the implementation details and allow the underlying architecture to be improved over time or replaced entirely. The design and layout of the registry is what enabled COM, and is in no small part responsible for the success of Windows among developers.Those who complain about it are generally lay people whose knowledge of the registry is limited to cursory experience with the regedit.exe program - something far too many people have been exposed to. Regedit is not the registry, it is an app trying to create a visual / browseable representation of the data stored in it, but it is for debugging purposes only. The registry is for *registration* of components, and doubles as a centrally-managed configuration database for Windows itself. Applications should only use the registry to register shared components or file/protocol associations. An application should be able to be copied around and run without relying on registry entries, assuming all of its dependencies (which may register themselves in, you guessed it, the *registry*) have been installed.
chesscatAug 6, 2009
Microsoft, Wake Up and Smell Defeat! MIcrosoft. Your frustration. Our fault.Can these guys do ANYTHING right? 8 years in development, this the best you can do?? lol. No wonder people are leaving Windows for OS X and Linux in droves.
Closed AccountAug 10, 2009
You just don't get it, do you? No time to explain it to you. Good luck.
tomaburqueAug 10, 2009
Walt Mossberg can take a hike if he doesn't like wiping his harddrive when he reinstalls an OS. See, he's a Mac fanboy. And you can get away with not reinstalling in Mac because Mac's don't have the registry. But in Windows you should really wipe when you reinstall because of the more complex relationship between the installed app and the OS.