Why did these guys in Redmond have to go and screw up a perfectly good thing? Xerox's brain child of the GUI, brought to fruition and perfection by Apple had to be effected by the greed, arrogance, and brutishness of a few "business" men. While I'd like to rant about how I do like a free market society when it is actually free (instead of monopolized) that is not what this article is about.
This may be my one and only shout out to Micro$oft. And it is for their one and only useful, stable, and not-so-privacy-invading OS, Windows 2000.
Yes Win2k, as some of us called it, was the culmination of bringing the here-to-fore stable Windows NT 4.0 kernal to a more user friendly (and plug and pray enabled) public. (And ok it did have a Win2k bug, so ironic). If M$ had just stopped with Win2k (AKA Windows NT 5.0) and just improved it with service packs and such, they might still have a good product. Instead that had to ruin it with NT 5.1 an incremental upgrade we all know as Windoze XP. And I'd rather not get into the travesty of NT 6.0 (Vi$ta). Which just might be the most unstable NT incarnation yet. Other than the massive amount of memory and hard drive space it uses, what does it really do that I need that XP didn't? Or OS X and Linux already did? And what about the RAM is seems to "steal" for video? Have you noticed if you have a 128 MB video card in the system it still tells you it is using more like 256? And fie on those who use it, and double fie on those who like it (and also remember up until recently the fastest Vista laptop was a Mac). At least for a few of us we can still use Windows 2000 (when we need to use Windoze). And even get a free patch for the daylight savings time changes, that Microshaft themselves refused to make free.
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