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by allenbrunson
5584 days ago
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Personally, I am going to argue the other direction. Windows is a pain to program for and use largely because it's filled with assumptions and code that date back to the eighties. It is very difficult to innovate with the boat anchor of the past shackled to your ankle. Think how much easier it would be for Microsoft to improve security if, for example, they could remove the assumption that it's okay for apps to blithely write stuff to the \Windows directory. Well, Mac OS X has done exactly that. Most of its system directories are tightly locked down. In fact, Apple has completely chucked their entire operating system from the eighties and started over. The result is a much more modern OS that is far more pleasant to use. Yes, there was a real fear there that, since people had to chuck OS9, they might move to something else entirely, but that didn't happen, for the most part. Think about it this way. Which customers would you rather have: the people who are willing to buy new computers and software every few years, or the guy who is stubbornly holding on to his DBASE app from 1984? For me, the choice is obvious. |
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There was one fellow who hemmed and hawed at having to use Windows 2000. He wanted to stick with Windows 95. He ended up migrated, but he spent a furious amount of time getting the Windows 3.1 File Manager working. Apparently on his Windows 95 laptop he had brought it over as well.
He also was using a release of SideKick from 1992.
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How is this relevant? I recently talked to someone who does provide IT support for that same company. That same person? Still running SideKick. Still complains about not having File Manager. Also is hemming and hawing about having to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7.
Company is also still on 10Mbps networking. The owner still refuses to use copper, since they're a fiber optic distributor (multimode fiber is run to each and every desk).