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>> “The problem is all the home and small business computers that are running XP ON THE INTERNET. Those are dangerous. They have to get taken off the Internet.” <<
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> You sir are a thug!
Umm, no, I’m not. I’m a professional system adminstrator. After spending most of my professional career as a computer systems design engineer, on spacecraft, industrial, and commercial applications, I decided to take a decade before I retire tending the few hundred computers in a small software firm. I know Unix, Linux, OS X, and Windows machines at a deep level, having designed hardware and written software for them all, and having cared for a few farms that include all of them. I dare say I know what I’m talking about. You’re welcome to check at the end of my FR profile page if you want further details.
I’ll ask you to please refrain from making a further ass of yourself with name calling. Deal?
> There was never any reason beyond their bottom line why they couldn’t have simply fixed all their sloppy bugs in XP, and never offered anything more than simple add-on functionality packages to XP.
Not true. XP’s internal architecture is deeply flawed, and simply cannot be patched past the point where it has been. To bring it up to snuff would be a major rewrite, and not remotely worth it. The later releases had substantial improvements in security and stability that are not possible with XP.
The later GUIs sucked, we can agree on that. But I’m speaking of the actual underlying operating system, not the glitzy bullshit the user sees.
>Nothing they have given us after XP is an improvement. Win 7 is an equal, but hardly an improvement, and vista and Win 8 are crap!
We can agree on that, if you’re speaking of the user interface primarily. For example, I absolutely loathe Win 8’s UI, but I recognize that under the hood, it’s quite an improvement over its predecessors. You apparently do not care to look under the hood. That’s your right, but it limits your knowledge and understanding of what you think you’re talking about.
Something you should understand. I don’t much like Windows. I’m mainly a Unix fan, who tolerates Windows, uses Linux extensively by choice at work, and Mac OS X by choice as well as the others at home. I don’t play favorites, because I am interested in finding the best tool for any given task, and getting the job done. The reason I think XP should be kept off the Internet is that I have to deal with its damage every day and I know its problems all too well. The same is true of, for example, OS X 10.2, and early releases of Linux. Software becomes obsolete because times and conditions change, and after a while you just can’t keep patching.
> You can happily continue to support super-socialist Bill Gates, the felon that stole DOS from its rightful owner, if you wish, but do not ask me to join your insanity.
My, my. You know, I had been designing computers and writing system software for nearly a decade when Gates paid for QDOS (for a price that was, indeed, a steal). I didn’t like him than, I didn’t like him a few years prior to that when he whined about us hobbyists and homebrewers using his software, and I especially don’t like him these days. I would think that would be obvious to you, if you had bothered to find out anything about the fellow FReeper you called a “thug”.
Good night, Sir, I have no more interest in you or your comments.
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If you ever get tired of puffing and pounding your chest, you can simply look at the fact that MS was able to design Win 7 and 8 to offer “XP mode” to run existing software written for that platform, thus a step obviously can be added to fool the XP applications. That same step could have been patched to the existing platform.
And Gates didn’t ‘buy’ dos from its owner; he bought the chance to purloin the code from a second party. That is called conspiracy when a second party is the enabler.