Post #97,757
4/21/03 11:29:43 PM
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Microsoft fragments Windows
[link|http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997509.html|http://news.com.com/...-1016-997509.html] Microsoft fragments Windows into many different versions, does what they say would ruin Windows if the DOJ had their way. How much is too much?
Too many versions of Windows?
In the last year, Microsoft has doubled the number of versions of its core Windows software. Here's the current lineup--not counting the more venerable Windows 98 and 2000--in three main groups.
Windows XP
\ufffd Windows XP Home
\ufffd Windows XP Professional
\ufffd Windows XP Embedded
\ufffd Windows XP Media Center Edition
\ufffd Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
\ufffd Windows XP 64-Bit
Windows Server 2003
\ufffd Windows Server 2003 Standard
\ufffd Windows Server 2003 Enterprise
\ufffd Windows Server 2003 Datacenter
\ufffd Windows Server 2003 Web
\ufffd Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-Bit
\ufffd Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-Bit
\ufffd Windows Small Business Server 2003*
Windows CE
\ufffd Windows CE .Net
\ufffd Pocket PC
\ufffd Pocket PC Phone Edition
\ufffd Smartphone
\ufffd Windows CE for Smart Displays
\ufffd Media2Go**
* Due in the third quarter
** Unreleased but in late stages of development.
"Bill gates cannot guarantee Windows, so how are you going to guarantee my safety?"
-John Crichton to the Emperor of the Scarrans on [link|http://www.farscape.com|FarScape]
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Post #97,769
4/22/03 12:16:25 AM
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As with e. coli - there are many many different strains.
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Post #97,811
4/22/03 8:01:02 AM
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There is another similarity
They range in utility from helping you make crap, to potentially lethal.
Often the only difference is how deep into your system the bugs get.
Cheers,
Ben
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]
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Post #97,871
4/22/03 11:39:00 AM
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Bwahahaha! Did you make that up? :D
Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance -
Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation.
BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10
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Post #98,049
4/22/03 8:59:15 PM
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Yes - glad you liked it :-)
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]
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Post #98,130
4/23/03 6:23:38 AM
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Wag-Ed *hates* people like you!
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Post #98,369
4/23/03 5:42:29 PM
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So, umm..er....gee... Did BillG(e) LIE during the trial?
Hey Thane, how does someone make a citizen's arrest in the Land of the Apples?
jb4
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."
Rich Cook
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Post #98,372
4/23/03 6:01:03 PM
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Same way as the rest of the country.
Find somebody who can't afford a lawyer, and arrest them. ;)
After 9/11, Bush made two statements:
1. "Terrorists hate America because America is a land of freedom and opportunity."
2. "We intend to attack the root causes of terrorism."
Sounds like everything is going according to plan.
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Post #98,420
4/23/03 10:44:14 PM
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Re: Microsoft fragments Windows
And to think they started out in 1980 with only one OS...XENIX ,an OS based on UNIX.
"Microsoft announces Microsoft Xenix OS, a portable operating system for 16-bit microprocessors. It is an interactive, multiuser, multitasking system that will run on Intel 8086, Zilog Z8000, Motorola M68000, and DEC PDP-11 series. All of Microsoft's existing system software (Cobol, Pascal, Basic, and DBMS) will be adapted to run under the Xenix system, and all existing software written for Unix OS will be compatible as well. "
--from a Microsoft press release, 1980
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Post #98,445
4/24/03 12:19:41 AM
4/24/03 12:23:23 AM
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Misinterpretation
The one thing I will grant to Gates is that he understood the need for simple multitasking. He really did have a sort of vision of a desktop computer being useful by being able to do more than one thing at the same time. It's strange that Windows has become so incoherent. We are deceived in a way by the power of modern hardware. The early PC was more primitive than you can possibly imagine, unless you were there. DOS was all it could really handle. Even so, you would make useful software for it. The real irony is that Gates is killing the very thing he did so much to make essential.
-drl
Edited by deSitter
April 24, 2003, 12:23:23 AM EDT
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Post #98,449
4/24/03 12:54:46 AM
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Ever see Geoworks?
GEOS - graphical user environment that ran on a Commedore 64.
Geoworks - Multitasking GUI that ran on an 8086.
After 9/11, Bush made two statements:
1. "Terrorists hate America because America is a land of freedom and opportunity."
2. "We intend to attack the root causes of terrorism."
Sounds like everything is going according to plan.
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Post #98,468
4/24/03 6:07:57 AM
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Or, as one comentator said at the time . .
. . "This is what Windows 3.1 should have been". Microsoft applied full monopoly leverage (under Non Disclosure Agreements, of course), so just about nobody wrote software for it out of fear of being black listed.
Current versions of the GeoWorks suites are sold as NewDeal Office, BreadBox Ensemble (available bundled with DRDOS 7.03 for $129) and NewDeal School Suite. They are still well thought of by users and reviewers, and also run in a DOS window under OS/2 (and probably Linux) and in DOS emulation on the Mac.
GeoWorks itself, having failed to achieve a major position in mobile devices, is trying to liquidate but wasn't able to get enough stockholders to vote (April 2003). The DOS products were spun off long ago, so they will survive GeoWorks itself.
[link|http://www.aaxnet.com|AAx]
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Post #98,472
4/24/03 8:38:37 AM
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Geoworks was great...
...AOL used to use it, too.
Imric's Tips for Living- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Post #98,510
4/24/03 11:09:44 AM
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How about Windows 3.0?
As I recall, Windows 3.0 had an 8086/8088 mode. In the college lab I used to work in, we had 640K IBM PC systems with CGA running Windows 3.0 over a Novell Netware network. Windows 3.0 was loaded off a network drive, the PC and XT systems did not have a hard drive but a floppy boot disk to get on the Netware network. We also had bus mice on the PC and XT systems. It was I think 640x200 mode with 2 colors with the CGA driver.
Of course when DOS came out, 640K was not very common. So Windows 3.0, GEOS/GeoWorks, etc wouldn't have been possible without extra memory added.
"Bill gates cannot guarantee Windows, so how are you going to guarantee my safety?"
-John Crichton to the Emperor of the Scarrans on [link|http://www.farscape.com|FarScape]
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Post #98,677
4/25/03 5:48:51 AM
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How about a warm Ex-Lax milkshake with a mouse port?
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