Right, Xiao Yao. Microsoft must be free to innovate! And to kill anybody else's innovation that might be a threat, even before it comes to market. Andy Grove caved, and we'll probably never know how many others did too. It's all good for consumers, though. As I've said before, personally I think it'd be good for consumers if Microsoft saw fit to ship an OS that sucked less, but that's just me.
Funny thing, I'm actually trying Windows98, it's sort of OK, but it keeps shutting off the computer with its hose-head power management. Then when I power up again, it comes up with this message that say "you computer didn't wake up, do you want to disable power management", and I click yes, and it does the same thing in another hour. I disabled everything possible on the power management screen, too, it still keeps shutting down. I'll leave it in till it falls apart a little more, then go back to OSR2. Rumors of Win98 sucking less seem to have been greatly exaggerated.
Cheers, Dan. |
