Worst OS ever?

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#81

[quote]Can you name a Microsoft innovation that they didn’t acquire from some other company (and subsequently ruin), or blatantly copy from Apple? Or “invent” simply as a reaction to the real innovator (E.g. C# based on Java)
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Apple only has a small fraction of the number of patents that MS has.
I’m not sure how else you can quantify the ‘innovativeness’ of a company, but I’m sure that argueing with random examples isn’t proving anything.

That doesn’t mean that Windows 95 didn’t suck though ;), and I do share your attitude towards MS to a certain degree.
But what would the world have looked like if Apple would have been in MS’ position? I guess we’d have prettier GUIs, but everything would’ve been much more expensive, closed and proprietary. I’m not sure that would’ve been an improvement overall.

#82

I live in germany so this came to my attention today

a small victory =)

#83

ZFS is invluenced by WAFL which was influenced by something by sun etc. etc.

that being said while most likely there is some innovation going on there it’s being snowed under so bad - by stuff they present as ‘new, innovating and radically different’ which really, really, isn’t.

#84

even my friend, who is a mac worshipper, has aggreed that windwos 7 is the best operating system out at the time. It is faster than mac OSX, and it has just much looks. And not to mention still not finished.

#85

I disconcur.

#86

reasoning?

#87

windows 7 is not “out there” as it is not released
the only reason MS developed 7 in the first is because Vista sucked so hard

ontopic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrr7AZ9nCY

#88

Google takes on Windows with Chrome OS

fuck this

#89

Interesting. So they finally got the cat out of the bag.
But I’ll need more info before commenting what I think. But by looking at it so far, I’ll be keeping with Windows.

#90

I dont want to start a flame war about google, but cool, I am quite excited to try this out. The browser chrome trumped IE, so maybe the OS will as well.

#91

So now Google will have 2 OS’s! Maybe they decided to make Chrome OS because they didn’t want people putting Android on Netbooks?

#92

Well Android isn’t built for Netbooks, this OS would be specially built for this kind of thing.
There FAQ says its going to be free: http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-chrome-os-faq.html

#93

As per usual, all I particularly care about is whether there will be a proper JVM and OpenGL / OpenAL on it.

Cas :slight_smile:

#94

lol… really… seeing all those Google projects just make me think that Google is going to explode itself, I eard they already fired some employees, and IMHO it is more related to the way they launch so many project than to the finacial crisys, without Google search engine Google is nothing…

sorry for the “flame war about google” :slight_smile:

#95

I think Google takes a shotgun approach to new libraries and projects - it’s easier and more produtive to just start lots of projects and acknoledge that a fair percentage will fail in some way, than it is to endlessly dither about what direction to go in and possibly throw your weight behind the wrong project.

#96

IMO Google don’t create new markets they steal them from existing players, simply by doing ‘the same, but better’.

Now, unless Chrome OS offers Windows binary compatibility, Google isn’t going to be competing with Micro$oft at all - they’re going to be going head-to-head with the Linux & OSX markets.
I don’t see this as a bad thing either - currently the competitors to Windows are many, and comparatively small.
If Chrome OS can bring all of these disparate groups into supporting a single platform, the market will be one step closer to toppling Micro$oft’s monopoly.

OSX is nice & all, but doesn’t everybody hate Apple for it’s money-grabbing, proprietary, closed source philosophy?
Linux is nice & all, but without a single entity centrally organising the platforms evolution - it’s quality & functionality can be rather haphazard at times.

Can’t wait for the firey responses =)

#97

Apple should have more $ letters in it’s name then micro$oft and throw in a couple of £ and € letters too.

#98

[quote]Can’t wait for the firey responses =)
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lol

aim ! fire !

#99

more OS’s can only be good for cross-platform techs, like java, mono, flash, the web, etc.

#100

then again Chrome OS could also be linux in its core

everything to help push linux would be great