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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (64319)	1/21/2002 11:09:09 AM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 74651

nice post

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (64319)	1/21/2002 11:34:25 AM
From: Dave	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

What a load of self-serving FUD. The very latest Windows derives from VMS, a multi-user OS. Dave

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (64319)	1/21/2002 11:51:10 AM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

"Windows will never be as good a timesharing system as Unix because there is no reason for it to develop such capabilities. Hardware is still riding Moore's law and processors continue to get ever cheaper and more plentiful. In such an environment to focus on a timesharing model would be a poor business decision on MSFT's part." Your analogy with cellular phones is wrong, and above you are expressing the "One user"/"One CPU"/"One task" MSDOS mentality. And your understanding of "timesharing" is incorrect too. In the 21-century personal CPUs can do much more work than sitting and waiting for you to press a key on your keyboard, or waiting for a synchro pulse to format a floppy. There are plenty of resources to share - printers, scanners, CD burners, MP3/DVD playbacks, home automation/security, storage maintenance, websurfing. Proper timesharing is the only reasonable way to share resources and sustain data streams. Windows seem to be catching with this, but too slowly and awkwardly. "Windows has its roots in the networked PC world" You must be joking. Windows has its inexcavable roots in DOS.

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (64319)	1/21/2002 3:53:23 PM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

Hmmm... that's the first time I heard someone referring to Windows originating in anything that has to do with networks... I think most people think of computers as screen images. They walk to a computer monitor with a keyboard and call it "a computer". With today's internet, users often don't know the exact location of their data. That's why the desktop and the new shell file hierarchy was invented in Windows and also now in Linux. What people want, is their own information at their fingertips, no matter which screen they approach. Walk up to a random screen in your home, log in, use your desktop as it always looks like, play some games etc. Linux does that. Windows doesn't. It's that simple. You can do it with Windows if you spend a lot of money. In fact, you can do it with standard distributions - no complicated setup like in Windows is needed, and no server version is needed. And unlike Windows servers and many common Windows applications, Linux is localized. Btw I just saw that Dell.dk now sells computers with foreign language Windows XP home preinstalled on their consumer PCs. But not localized Windows XP's yet. Let's hope that Windows XP will hit the market for real in 2002Q1, I look forward to see a Windows XP in a non-foreign language. Dybdahl.