No - an opposing view on future of Windows
Posted: 19 Jun 2009, 01:49
No as you can see from these forum posts, and many others across the web,
users demand stabilty, performance and reliability.
I doubt anyone cares for all the bits that have been put into Windows over
the years, all we see is ever increasing disk, memory and CPU requirements
for little benefit over what was shipped in NT4! (*imagine all the things
that have been added to Vista could have been added directly to NT4 and
no-one would have complained).
The fact of the matter is that Windows has lost its way and become a bloated
mass of inconsistent, poorly engineered, badly fitting components. The
problem is more due to a lack of control over the entire thing that has
allowed it to spread and sag. I'm sure someone thought it woudl be a good
idea to put the winsxs directory in, but they didn't do it well enough - not
if it continues to grow in size like it does. If the directory was simply a
cache of files you've got to ask how could they get it so wrong? If they
simply took the version number from the dll, created a directory of that
name, and placed the dll in it, we wouldn't have this issue at all.
Surely the problem is that Windows has become too complicated, too
overengineered. For example, yesteray I tried to install Sql Server Express.
It failed when compiling a MOF file.. ?? Things have moved on from the day
when you just put a dll in a directory and it worked, its because they try
all this fancy *** that it fails all the time.
I hope the next version of Windows addresses these problems, but I doubt it
will - backwards compatibility with the old crud will have to remain, so
it'll only get more fragile and broken over time. Sad but true.
users demand stabilty, performance and reliability.
I doubt anyone cares for all the bits that have been put into Windows over
the years, all we see is ever increasing disk, memory and CPU requirements
for little benefit over what was shipped in NT4! (*imagine all the things
that have been added to Vista could have been added directly to NT4 and
no-one would have complained).
The fact of the matter is that Windows has lost its way and become a bloated
mass of inconsistent, poorly engineered, badly fitting components. The
problem is more due to a lack of control over the entire thing that has
allowed it to spread and sag. I'm sure someone thought it woudl be a good
idea to put the winsxs directory in, but they didn't do it well enough - not
if it continues to grow in size like it does. If the directory was simply a
cache of files you've got to ask how could they get it so wrong? If they
simply took the version number from the dll, created a directory of that
name, and placed the dll in it, we wouldn't have this issue at all.
Surely the problem is that Windows has become too complicated, too
overengineered. For example, yesteray I tried to install Sql Server Express.
It failed when compiling a MOF file.. ?? Things have moved on from the day
when you just put a dll in a directory and it worked, its because they try
all this fancy *** that it fails all the time.
I hope the next version of Windows addresses these problems, but I doubt it
will - backwards compatibility with the old crud will have to remain, so
it'll only get more fragile and broken over time. Sad but true.