Or you might ask them why Visual Studio is only a 32 bit application.... Yes, it can build 64 bit apps, but they can't figure out how to compile it as a working 64 bit app. And if they can't fix that in all the time they have had, how would you expect them to redo windows????
Maybe they are hoping we will all move to Linux and run our apps on Azure instead.... Much less work for them to support... All I know is that they are doing their best to piss off everyone they can. Fletcher Johnson [email protected] LinkedIn.com/in/FletcherJohnson beknown.com/FletcherJohnson twitter.com/fletcherJ twitter.com/svcsug strava.com/athletes/fletcherjohnson 408-946-0960 - work 408-781-2345 - cell -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2018 7:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NF] Broken Windows On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 9:28 AM Man-wai Chang <[email protected]> wrote: > > Which means Micro$oft might need to rewrite it again? ;) > > Well, they bought DOS, slapped a gui on it, sold that for nearly 20 years, moving it from 16- to 32-bit, yay Win32s! Windows, 2.0, 3.1, 3.1, 3.11, W4Workgroups, W4Tablets, w4Work, Win95, 98, Millenium They teamed up with IBM to write OS/2 later "WARP," using Windows New Technology with the New Technology File System. Then they torpedoed IBM and released it as Windows NT. And that's what we are running today, Windows NT 3, 3.5, 3.51, 4, 7, Windows Vista, Windows 8, Windows 10. They've glommed a lot of stuff on top, but it's Windows NT on NTFS with its lousy security model, patched over with a new domain model and Policy enforcement, but it's the Registry and LAN Man and the same old print queue. It's tens of millions of lines of code, written mostly by people who don't work there any more. It's huge, it's heavy, it's buggy. And it runs on Desktops. And Servers. And not much else. Not smartphones, not lightweight tables, not the internet. Ignoring Windows CE (which still exists, running my settop box -*shudder), WindowsPhone, and XBox OS, all speciality spinoffs. Perhaps they should rewrite it. Third time's the charm, or so they mythology goes within MS. Highly recommended: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows for a refresher on the history. Good overview. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
