Posted on 01/09/2019 7:21:16 AM PST by dayglored
“Microsoft rips it all up and starts again no, the campus, not Windows”
Oh... a letdown. I though the “starts again” referred bringing back XP; I was practically giddy.
Dang...........................
Campus? Oh, so there building a school then?
1. They complain about all the legacy code in Windows, but dont seem to mention that companies are the ones that demand it, so why would they make their primary customers angry?
2. Who cares if they demolish builds for redevelopment. Lots of construction guys will have steady work for a while.
I had to work on a Windows Server 2012 instance today. It drove me crazy. How does that junk even still exist under 20 layers of right clicks. Ugh, the horror.
I was hoping for W2kPro. sigh...
2000 to 2007 I worked at SAFECO which was right next door to the Microsoft campus. It was pretty impressive spreading for blocks on end. I managed to hustle my way into one of their many Corp Cafe’s and it made ours look like a third world street vendor.
Perhaps they will purchase the rights to IBM’s OS2 and us it as a base for their next OS.. Nice to have a real time OS.
Good point. The underlying problem is that since the early days of Windows, business applications have used undocumented features, depended on undocumented behaviors, constructed workarounds for structural flaws and behavioral bugs, etc. As a result, those applications are heavily dependent on old, often broken, code deep in the bowels of the OS.
Microsoft has a many technically competent software engineers, brilliant system designers, and great system architects. But they are all hobbled by having to maintain "back-compatibility" with stuff that never should have been done that way in the first place.
Windows will never escape the damage done to NT in the mid-90's by trying to make it act like Win95. Everything after that just added insult to injury. It's really a shame; it could have been done so much better. Microsoft can never take a deep breath and re-do it from scratch, the way Apple did with the switch to OS X.
Make your bed, lie in it.
Hell, there's no reason (other than NIH Syndrome) that Microsoft couldn't revamp Windows as a GUI+syscalls over a Linux or Unix base system, the way Apple did when they migrated the old MacOS GUI to a FreeBSD Unix base system and created OS X.
Well, that and the point I addressed in comment #11 above. :-)
Interesting. I spent five years on campus as a contractor and worked in most of the buildings. I was one of the very first to get caught up in Micrsft’s contractor crunch - lost my gig due to the “360 and out” policy that MS enacted because of contractors suing for lost benefits.
Many ATMs run on XP, Microsoft still supports XP for them, not us.
They run on Embedded XP which is not the same OS that one would run on a desktop.
Thanks.
Microsoft can never take a deep breath and re-do it from scratch, the way Apple did with the switch to OS X.”
I was in IT during this. We supported Win and Mac. The OS X transition took about 2 years. They put in code that allowed you to run “classic” apps.
It worked damn well, especially considering OS X was a total departure from Mac OS. I didn’t find any MAC OS apps l could not run including the Server software.
Bring back “bob” !
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